I am having a similar issue. We have multiple blogs we send out, and if someone tries to subscribe to a second one, it overrides their subscription to the first. It would be ideal to be able to automate the process of allowing users to subscribe themselves to multiple bogs without overriding their previous subscriptions.
This definitely should be a feature - as well as selective use of existing data at the field level rather than only on a field as a whole.
It also looks weird/confusing/creepy to the user if they come back to submit a 2nd form and the message they wrote last time pops up!
A good CRM should be able to allow new entries submitted in the same field. For B2C companies, we usually record a lot of conversations with our prospects. I suggest new messages could be automatically synced from “messages” field, and recorded under “Notes” in contacts timeline.
Yes, it is absolutely must have! I need to save all the options of the property that existed ever. Could not find the way to do it.
Is there any news on this idea??
Upvote. This is a critical flaw with hubspot right now.
Hi Everyone - definately sounds like an important capability, hoping Hubspot will roll it out asap.
Meanwhile, I think a simple workaround can be as follows;
1. Add an extra field for each of thos you don’t want overwritten, for example Lead Source, make Lead Source Temp.
2. Map the import to Lead Source Temp
3. Create a workflow - if field Lead Source is blank, copy Lead Source Temp to Lead Source.
You can do a similar thing for fields to append, make Notes Temp, then make a workflow - if Notes is not blank, append Notes Temp to Notes, if blank - copy Notes Temp to Notes.
How does that sound for now?
Even in List imports it would be great to have the option to not update any fields if the contact is already in the system.
Give you the option to either overwrite existing contact’s data or ignore them from the import. Assumed this would be out of the box functionaliy.
Upvote!
Immutable hs_analytics_souce, hs_analytics_souce_1, hs_analytics_souce_2 fields are helpful to understand the first touch. But allowing leadsource to be updated when it already set shifts attribution to secondary touches. That is really misleading.
Hubspot - how have you not made this change yet? It is basic data management.
Please prioritise this improvement!!!
Furthermore, we ideally should be able to turn on a feature that allows us to manually check updates to data to make sure good data isn’t being overridden with garbage. For instance, it would be good to be able to review all data that has filled in a form form and review it. At the moment, all I can see is if we do that manually for each form. Should be able to select any form. Can do last modified but that could include uploads.
The inability to do this is really throwing me for a loop.
We used this option constantly in Marketo to append notes so we could create a clear log of history for sales reps. Can the ability to append a text property PLEASE get added???
Thank you BB1 for the good idea - it is apparently the best solution available to us for now.
I am also looking for a way that my form will update the field ONLY if it is blank. I do not want it to override.
Agree this is needed.
It was a very useful feature in Eloqua - used it all the time!
I have a solution for this. It is an integration in Hubspot called Insycle - which is available from the integrations marketplace. I had a demo yesterday and it does exactly what is needed and updates live straight back into Hubspot. https://www.insycle.com/.
Oh my gosh yes use Insycle for this! It integrates absolutely seamlessly with HubSpot and is so freaking quick. I am amazed by how quickly you can do things like this. It updates in real time and you can click the contact and open it right in HubSpot. Plus, you can preview your changes before actually pushing them live in things like merging contact records. It does what you’re looking for and a ton more too. I’m in love with this tool. https://www.insycle.com/.
So we’d have to pay for an integration for something that should already exist in the tool. Doesn’t seem right…
HubSpot, are you listening to your customers?! How long will it take you to add this pretty simple functionality that your competitors offer?
Newer user to Hubspot and very surprised it just overwrites the property and no option to append! So needed…
I tried insycle but it did not work for us - maybe because we hve tons of contacts and companies. Anyone here use Insycle for 400k or more contacts? If yes - how is your experience? How long does it take to do queries?
Thanks!