Associate a Contact Dialog Box

Use the Associate a Contact dialog box to define the relationship between two contacts in your database. You can also specify that the customers for the contacts become associated when you define this relationship. You define contact relationship options in Code Table Configuration.

Location

To display the dialog box, complete one of the following actions:

• On the Associations grid on the Associations tab of the Contact Info Center, click Associate.
• On the Associate a Contact dialog box, select the Associate the Customers of these two Contacts option.

Contents

Field	Description
Contact A is a ... of/to Contact B	Use this drop-down list to select the relationship of the current contact record to the contact that you want to add to the Associations grid.
Description	Enter a description of the association. Click Edit to use the Text Editor to enter information.
Contact B is a ... of/to Contact A	Use this drop-down list to select the relationship of the contact that you want to add to the Associations grid to the current contact record.
Description	Enter a description of the association. Click Edit to use the Text Editor to enter information.
Associate the customers of these two contacts	Select this option to create an association between Contact A's customer firm and Contact B's customer firm. If you select this option, and click OK on the Associate a Contact dialog box, GovWin Capture Management displays the Associate a Customer dialog box. Use this dialog box to enter details for the customer-to-customer association. When you complete this process, contact-to-contact associations are added to the Associations grid in each of the contact records specified. Also, customer-to-customer associations are added to the Associations grid in the corresponding customer records.