Setting up offices
You can set up individual records for each of your firm’s offices, and use these records for filtering and reporting purposes.
To set up offices, follow these steps.
- Choose Setup > Offices.
- Click the Add button at the bottom of the Offices screen.
- In the Main tab, enter a short identifier for the office in theIDfield and a description of the office in theDescriptionfield.noteIf the office is your firm’s home office, mark theThis is the home Officecheckbox. Only one office can be designated as the home office. The information on the Contact Info tab for the home office is shared with the Contact Info tab of the Firm setup screen.
- Click the Contact Info tab.
- Enter the name of the primary contact for the office, along with title, company, and salutation, plus the name under which to file the contact.noteTheFile asfield is a required field.
- Enter address and phone information as appropriate.note
- You can change how the address and phone numbers are labeled by clicking the down arrow
button next to the number or address. - TheCity, County, Country,andZipfields are custom fieldview fields. In acustom fieldviewfield, you can enter the information or select it from the drop-down list. If you need to add a new item to the list, type the item you want to add and pressCTRL+Swhile the cursor is still in the field. You can also right-click the field and chooseAdd, Edit,orDeletefrom the context menu.
- If you want to add this contact to any contact categories, click the More
button next to the Categoriesfield. In the Categories dialog, highlight the desired categories in the left pane and click Select to move them into the right pane. Click OK when finished. - If you want to add more contacts for this office, click the More
button next to the Additional contactsfield. The Additional Contacts dialog opens.The process for adding additional contacts is similar to the steps you took above to add the primary office contact. - If you would like to associate other contacts in the application with this office, click the More
button next to the Associationsfield. - If your firm has added custom fields for office information, click the Custom Fields tab and enter the appropriate information.
- Click Enter at the bottom of the Offices setup screen to save your changes.