Set up a contact
Use the
Contact
window to add to the list of available contacts while setting up firm, office, staff, or client contact information. This contact will be available to add to the firm, offices, staff, or clients or may be entered into the application without any associations as a standalone contact. You can also edit contacts in this window.note
Clients, office, staff, and firm are user-defined terminology items. Your firm may refer to them by different names. You can view the default names for user-defined items by selecting
Help
, then Enable Default Terminology
(or by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+H).Adding a contact
- From theSetupmenu, selectFirm,Offices,Staff, orClients, depending on the type of contact you are setting up.
- SelectEdit.noteIf you are inFirmsetup, you don't need to selectEdit.
- If necessary, select a client, office, or staff member from the list.
- Go to theContact Infotab.
- SelectMore
next to the Additional contactsfield. - In theAdditional Contactswindow, right-click the contact list and selectAdd.
- Enter the contact information in the fields provided. When finished, selectOK.
note
- You can copy contact setup information from 1 contact to another. Right-click in theContactwindow to access theCopy Contact Fromoption.
- TheFile asfield is required.
- TheCity,County,Country, andZipfields are custom fieldview fields. In a custom fieldview field, you can enter the information or select it from the dropdown list. If you need to add a new item to the list, enter the item you want to add and press CTRL + S while the cursor is still in the field. You can also right-click the field and selectAdd,Edit, orDelete.
- Select the down arrow
to change the label on a phone number or address (for example, from HometoMobile). - If you want email messages for this contact to appear for a client in theOutlook Mailportlet on theClient dashboard, you need to do the following:
- In either theNamefield or theFile asfield, enter the contact’s name so that it exactly matches the contact’s display name on email messages you receive from the contact.
- In theE-mailfield, enter the email address exactly as it appears in email messages you receive from the contact.
- Verify that the contact is either the primary contact for the client or has been added as an additional contact for the client.