Contacts
Overview
Contacts are the people associated with your Accounts. Contacts can attend your Events, receive your communications, or even be a member of your staff.
You can view a list of your Contacts by navigating: People → Contacts, and view a streamlined list by using the Filter System.
Alternatively, you can search for a Contact using in the menu bar.
The Contact screen combines all the information about that Contact into a single area, including:
- Personal Details, including their LMS Username
- Contact Job Roles
- Current Events and Event History
- Bookings
- Tasks and Documents
- When they’ve logged into the LMS / LMS Student Portal
- Any Achievements they have been issued
Terminology
While not an exhaustive list, the most common queries are listed below:
Term | Check if this person is someone who… |
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Contact Identity | Set the Contact's identity type: Staff, Instructor, Administrator |
Staff | an employee of your company emails between staff will not be synced in the IMAP Email Integration |
Administrator | administers your Events: these Contacts will be counted as ‘Event Personnel’ |
Instructor | is qualified to instruct your Events |
Left Company | has left the Account (company): this will gray out the Contact on the Account’s screen |
Unsubscribe from Communications | has requested no communications, so they can be filtered out by Marketing Lists. Communication Triggers will also respect this setting by not sending emails to this Contact. |
No 3rd Party Mail | has requested not to be contacted by a 3rd Party |
Marketing Contact | should receive your marketing communications (you might not wish to send marketing communications to all Contacts in an Account) |
How to Create a Contact
Every Contact needs to be associated with an Account, which is where you’d go first in order to create a Contact. This is like visiting an organization’s building before you can meet the person who works for them.
- Click
in the top right of the black menu bar
- Enter the name of the Account you wish to add the Contact to
- Select the appropriate Account from the results returned
- In the Contacts table, click New
- Enter the Contact details
- Click Save
Your Contact has now been created.
Edit a Contact
- Click
in the top right of the black menu bar
- Enter the name of the Contact you wish to edit
- Select the appropriate Contact from the results returned
- In the Contact Details section, click Edit
- Edit the details as required
- [Optional] Under Options, you can click Move to move the Contact to a different Account, or Fill Address from Account to update the Contact’s address to match that of its Account
- Click Save
Your Contact has now been updated.
Delete a Contact
You won’t be able to delete Contacts that have a history attached to them, such as Event Registrations, Opportunities, and open Tasks. Please delete these dependencies first before deleting the Contact.
- Click
in the top right of the black menu bar
- Enter the name of the Contact you wish to delete
- Select the appropriate Contact from the results returned
- In the Contact Details section, click Options, then Delete
Your Contact has now been deleted.
If you need to restore a Contact you can do so in the UI. First, visit the URL that points to the Contact. It will look something like this: /Contact/view/id/79 in this case the ID of 79 is a deleted Contact. After visiting the URL for your deleted Contact you can then use the "Restore Contact" button (if you are a Super User).
After clicking Restore Contact your Contact's details will be restored.
Merge Contacts
There may be instances where you’ve found you’ve created duplicate Contacts and you may need to combine them together so information and dependencies, such as Event registrations, etc. are all in one place. If one of the Contacts doesn’t have any dependencies, you can simply delete it. However, if both have dependencies and history attached, you can merge them with our Potential Contact Duplicates tool (Super User access only).
Credentials
In this section, you are able to:
- Set up an account for a student to gain access to the student portal
- Edit the account username
- Send a password reset email
- Remove credentials
- Block access to the portal
Block Access:
If you wish to block a Student’s access to the portal, you can do so from the Credentials Tab of the Contact screen:
- Click the ellipsis
displayed on the right of the Credentials table
- Click Block Access
- When prompted, click OK to confirm
- The Student will not be able to access the portal.
Restore Access:
If you wish to restore a blocked Student's access to the portal, select the "Restore Access" option in the Credentials table:
Remove Credentials:
In cases where you wish to remove a Student's existing credentials without blocking access to the portal. You can do so from the Credentials tab of the Contact screen.
- Click the ellipsis
displayed on the right of the Credentials table
- Click Remove Credentials.
- When prompted, click OK to confirm
- The Student's credentials will be removed, and they will no longer be able to access the portal.
Note: After removing a Student's credentials, an Admin can choose to set up new credentials for the Student. If your instance is configured to support Student self-registration, the student can also set up their own credentials.
Achievements
A contact can be issued an achievement to track their successful completion or participation in an Event, professional certification, or another learning milestone.
Achievements have:
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Validity: the state of the achievement:
- Active: the achievement is valid and has not reached its expiration date
- Expired: the achievement was valid, but has lapsed
- Revoked: the achievement should be considered invalid
- Name: The type of achievement that was issued to the Learner.
- Number: A unique code that can be used to identify the achievement.
- Issued At: The date when the achievement was given to the learner.
- Expires At: The date when the achievement will no longer be accepted as current.
- Issued By: Documents the Event or Learning Path where the achievement was issued, if it was automatically generated by Administrate.
- Brand: Designate where the Learner has visibility to the Achievement
- Documentation: A file (most commonly a PDF or image) that supports the achievement. When issued by Administrate automatically, this can be a copy of the Certificate generated for the Learner.
Reissuing Certificates:
Any Certificates that a Student has been awarded can be reissued from the Achievements tab of the Contact screen.
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- To reissue Certificates, find the related Achievement in the Achievements table of the Contact screen, click the ellipsis which is displayed on the right of the table, and then click the "Refresh Documents" option.
Accounts
You can associate a single Contact with multiple Accounts, enabling better tracking of training progress, interactions, and sales across different contexts - all while maintaining a unified contact record.
The list will show all Accounts a contact is linked to, with a primary account status pill indicating the root account.
- Assign a Contact to Multiple Accounts: Click Add Account to add account associations. The list will show all Accounts a contact is linked to, with a primary account status pill indicating the root account.
- Change Primary Account: From the kebab menu, select Make Primary to designate the contact’s main account. Other accounts will appear as Membership accounts.
- Contacts on Lists: Contacts will appear on all contact lists for every account they are associated with.
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You can specify a Contact as a Primary Contact on any of the Accounts they belong to.
- Accounts can be either active or inactive. Inactive accounts are those that were relevant in the past but are no longer associated with current activities. For example, this may happen when a contact moves from one account to another.
- The delete option can be used if you want to remove all Contact associations from the Account listed. Note that the Account itself is not deleted with this action.
Contact Audit Logs
By clicking on Options and Contact History, you can see an audit log of any changes that have been made to the contact.
The log will show you:
- Timestamp of when the change occurred
- Which field was changed
- Who changed the field
- If the change was done manually by a person or by an integration/API
If the field is blank, that means that no value was entered if the value didn't previously exist.
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