Using the opportunity stages and the sales path

Once an opportunity is created, the user can track the activities that relate to the opportunity, as we covered in Chapter 2, Understanding Salesforce Activities. One of the most important aspects of an opportunity is marking the correct stage that the opportunity is in. Stages mark the progress of an opportunity and are customizable for each Salesforce instance. Salesforce offers a feature that allows you to visualize the stages of an opportunity. This feature is called the sales path. Let's see how to enable this feature.

In the following screenshot, I navigated to the setup and configuration section of Salesforce:

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, I took a couple of steps:

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