Salesforce Button: Change status of Lead Status field.

Take an example a company uses Salesforce CRM in their organization. A user has come to you with request that he wants a button on Lead record detail page to change Lead Status field to “Closed – Not Converted”. How can this be done using button?

The system administrator needs to create button.

Navigation: Setup > Customize > Leads > Buttons, Links and Actions

New Button or Link

Enter the details

Label: Change Lead Status to Closed – Not Converted.

Name: Auto populated

Description: Change Lead Status to Closed – Not Converted

Display Type: Detail Page Button

Behavior: Execute JavaScript

Content Source: OnClick JavaScript

Code

{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/27.0/connection.js")}

var objLead = new sforce.SObject('Lead');

objLead.Id = '{!Lead.Id }';

objLead.Status = 'Closed - Not Converted';

var result = sforce.connection.update([objLead]);

if(result[0].success=='true'){

alert('The Lead was Updated Successfully');

location.reload(true);}

Click Syntax for errors and save.

When you click save following page is displayed notifying us to add the button to the page layout.

Add Change Lead Status to Closed – Not Converted button to the page layout.

Lead detail page. Lead Status: Working – Contacted. Now I want to change the status to Closed – Not Converted. Click the button.

The Lead was updated successfully.

Lead Status changed to Closed – Not Converted.