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How to Navigate Vitally

Navigating Vitally with 'Quick Jump' and other Shortcuts

Written by Laura Bedoya
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Account Logo Menu Drop-Down

Getting to your Settings is via your logo on the top left. Once you select your logo, you'll get a dropdown with your options of:

  • Home

  • My Profile

  • Settings

  • What's new

  • Invite Team members (not available for all roles)

  • Logout

Vitally Settings

You'll find Profile (email and calendar settings), Operations (e.g., Account & Billing, Playbooks, etc), Vitally Objects (Organizations, Users, Tasks, Docs, etc), and Custom Objects (e.g., Deals, Opportunities, etc) under Settings.

Profile

This is where you can edit sending windows, set your personal time zone for working and sending hours, configure your email signature, manage your team member traits (like calendar booking links), connect your Google or Outlook email and calendar, and manage your notifications.

Below, you'll see all the options as an Admin would. If you are an observer or a teammate, your settings menu will be significantly shorter. Find out more about roles HERE.

Operations

When navigating to Settings > Operations, you will find:

  1. Account & Billing: These are details about your account and billing.

  2. Email: Manage the Vitally Email Service

  3. Playbooks: Create or edit automated playbooks

  4. Integrations: Integrate, configure, or update Integrations

  5. Data Access: Customize and manage the data your teams have access to

  6. Security: You'll find login type, 2FA, session timeout, allowed attachment types (e.g, .csv, .doc, .png), and roles disallowed from exporting data from Vitally.

  7. Privacy & GDPR: Here you'll find our DPA, and links for erasure

  8. Events: The entire set of events seen from your analytics service. You can hide any events that you'd prefer not to show in Vitally.

  9. Blueprints: Explore our ever-growing library of ready-made materials

Vitally Objects

Vitally Objects are all the objects that all Vitally customers have access to, such as:

  • Team members: Under Team members, you can select:

    • Manage Team: Here you can manage your internal team by inviting them (if you have SSO enabled, you will need to invite them via your SSO provider), change their permissions, deactivate users, edit any team traits, see pending invites, and auto-created users (these are created via your SSO provider)

    • Traits: Manage or create Team Traits. Add custom traits for your team profiles below. These traits (e.g., a calendar link) can be auto-included in conversations sent in Vitally from that team member. You can also auto-assign key roles to accounts using these traits in Playbooks.

  • Organizations (if enabled): Find a list to set up health, success metrics, traits, key roles, segments, decks & cards, revenue & subscription configuration, trial configuration, churn configuration, and track rules.

  • Accounts: Find a list to set up health, success metrics, elements, traits, key roles, segments, decks & cards, revenue & subscription configuration, trial configuration, churn configuration, and track rules.

  • Users: Find a list to set up traits, segments, decks & cards, and churn configuration.

  • Goals: Find Goal Templates

  • Tasks: Find a list to set up traits, categories, statuses, and tags.

  • Notes: Find a list to set up templates, traits, categories, and tags.

  • Projects: Find a list to set up templates, traits, categories, and statuses.

  • Docs: Find a list to set up templates and tags.

  • Conversations: Find a list to set up templates, traits, categories, unsubscribes, and connected Gmail accounts.

  • Meetings: Manage your Vitally Call Recorder seats or meeting traits.

  • Surveys: Find a list to set up NPS and Custom Surveys.

Additionally, you'll see a setting wheel next to Vitally Objects where you can configure whether your customers are modeled as a parent-child hierarchy or a singular (flat) hierarchy (i.e, enabling Organizations). You can also rename Account and Organization labels (i.e, if you call Accounts Customers and Organizations Parent Customer, you can rename that here).

Custom Objects

Lastly, you will find your Custom Objects in Vitally Settings. Here you can manage existing Custom Objects that are synced or manually created in Vitally. This is where you can also manually create Custom Objects

Vitally Help

The question mark button gives you drop-down options:

  • Help & Docs is where our documentation lives.

  • Chat with Support opens up a chat box to chat with the Support Team

  • Status & Outages page keeps you update to date on any incidents affecting Vitally's performance

  • Quick Jump allows you to teleport anywhere in Vitally

  • Vitaly Academy opens on-demand videos on learning the foundstions of the Vitally platform

  • Refer & Earn $ is your chance to win back money!

Quick Jump

Vitally Support's favorite shortcut! Quick jump (use the keyboard shortcuts Mac: ⌘ + j Or Windows: Alt + j or go to Settings > Help > Quick Jump) allows you to easily transport around Vitally without having to click around too much. You can easily get to places like:

  • Integrations (or specific integrations like Intercom, Salesforce, etc)

  • Lifecycle Tracking

  • Segments

  • Indicators

  • Playbook Automations

  • Settings

  • Etc...

Global + Create a New... Button

You'll see a + Create New button on the bottom left of the panel. Simply clicking on the menu lets you skip navigating to settings and immediately start creating! Here you can create:

  • Notes

  • Tasks

  • Start Conversation

  • Create Project

  • Create Doc

  • Set Goal

  • Create Playbook Automation

  • Create Success Metric

  • Create Element

  • Invite Teammate (if you use SSO, you are unable to use this option)

  • Create Account

  • Create User

Global Search

You can use the Global Search to find a variety of objects in Vitally! Easily find customers and their activity to quickly navigate to important information. To quickly access the Global Search bar, you can also use this keyboard shortcut on Mac: ⌘ + / or on Windows: Alt + /

In Global Search, you can search for:

  • Organizations, Accounts, Or Users

    • Searching for hierarchy will also pull up Users, Notes, and Conversations under each (e.g, searching for a note's parent (either by external id or name) will also return notes in Global Search results)

  • Activity items, like Notes (subject and contents), Docs, Projects, Tasks, Meetings, and Conversations

  • Views

  • Or Custom Objects

Vitally Keyboard Shortcuts

There are a number of shortcuts in Vitally to help you ensure that you can format your messaging. Below is a list of all commands you can use within Notes, Tasks, or Docs (some of these are applicable to conversations as well):

  • Dash (-) + Space: Creates a bullet point

  • One hashtag (#) + Space: Add this before already written text to convert it to Heading 1

  • Two Hashtags (##) + Space: Add this before already written text to convert it to Heading 2

  • Three Hashtags (###) + Space: Add this before already written text to convert it to Heading 3

  • Backslash (/): Gives you a list of

    • Text formatting, such as headings and text

    • Bullets

    • Embed images, files, or online media

    • Add a section

    • Embed a task or project

    • Embed Account Card

  • Curly Bracket ({): Add Organization or Account-level variables

There are a number of other shortcuts to more efficiently get somewhere or create a new activity. Below is a list of shortcuts to efficiently work in Vitally:

  • Tab N: Create new note

  • Tab T: Create new task

  • Tab C: Create new conversation

  • Tab P: Create new project

  • Tab D: Create new doc

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