The Home page view depends on user settings.



When you launch the CPQ UI, the Proposals page is displayed. All the existing proposals are listed on this page along with their details. 

NumberDescription
1A list of Proposals.
2Basic and Advanced Search
3Items per page
4Add New: Creating a new proposal

The following functionalities are available for you to manage the proposals.

Proposal Search

You can narrow down the proposal list using the search feature. You can either define search criteria to search for a range of products or use the proposal search option.

Basic Search

In basic search, you can search for a proposal using keywords. For example, you can search using the name of the product. 

  1. In the Search this list field, enter a keyword related to your proposal details such as proposal name.
  2. Click the search icon  or press Enter. CPQ returns all proposals that contain that keyword in the proposal details.

Advanced Search

In advanced search, you can search for a proposal using a search query.

  1. Click the Advanced Search icon . The Advanced Search pop-up is displayed.
  2. Click Add Criteria and Enter the following details: 
    1. Field: All proposal fields are available in the drop-down list such as Text, Checkbox, Date, Date/Time, Number, Percent, Picklist, Multi-Select Picklist, Currency.
    2. Operator: Operators that are available for selection help create the filter expression. Operators are displayed based on the field types. For example, a picklist value will display equal to and not equal operators and a text field will display equal to, not equal to, starts with, contain, does not contain operators. If it is a multi-value picklist, the application displays include and does not include operators.
    3. Value: Enter a value.
  3. Click Apply to enable the search filter. CPQ returns all proposals that match the criteria.

Sorting Proposals List

You can sort the proposals list by clicking the column names. The products are sorted alphabetically by proposal name in ascending order. Every time you click the column name, the sorting switches between ascending and descending order. You can adjust the column width by dragging the columns. Hover near the column boundaries till a two-way arrow appears. Click when the arrow appears and drag left or right to adjust the column width.

Actions available on this page

  • Click Add New to create a new proposal.
  • Click the ellipsis icon  next to the proposal name to edit, delete, change owner, and configure an existing proposal.
  • Click the proposal name link to open the proposal Details page.

Items per page

At the bottom of the page, you can see the total count of proposals available. You can control the number of proposals to be displayed on each page. You can select the number of proposals from a predefined list. You cannot configure this list. By default, you see 20 records on each page.

By default, you can sort 10, 20, 30, 50, and 100 proposals per page using the Rows per page drop-down. This feature works in association with the search and filter functions to display search records per page. You can use the < and > buttons to move to the next or the previous pages. You can also jump to a certain page using the page search component.