Opportunity Histories showing in Contact History

[John S]

We recently upgraded to 18.0.501 HF4  Since upgrading, we have noticed that the opportunity history for every single field update to an opportunity gets reported also in contact history.   We make a lot of routine changes in opportunity fields, and this is resulting in WAY too many entries showing up in contact history.     Is there a way to turn this off?     This was not happening before the last update.   

Thank you!

John S

[Gary W]

Hi John,

If this is occurring for every field in an opportunity, check in Tools > Define Fields for each field, and make sure the Generate History option is unchecked. This behaviour is not configurable for certain fields like Probability which will, and has always left a history entry on the associated contact.