Configure Contacts

A contact is a person who serves as the coordinator or focal point for a group. You have two options for configuring a contact for a group. You can configure a free form contact, which requires you to manually enter the contact information, or you can configure a contact from another group, which means that you do not have to manually enter the contact information. Instead, the group information is automatically used for the contact.

You can also configure and edit a contact “on the fly” during the reservation process. See the EMS User’s Guide for details.

Configure Contacts

Manually Configure Contacts

Click New.

The Contact dialog opens.
Enter the information for the new contact.

Field	Description
Contact	The name of the contact (maximum of 50 characters, including spaces).
Title	The title (Mr., Ms., Dr., and so on) of the contact.
Group	Populates with the name of the group that you selected. You cannot change this value.
Address	Populates with the address of the group that you selected. If the contact address is not the same as the group address, then clear Use Group Address and enter the appropriate values in the Address fields.
International	Drops the State and Zip fields for an international group.
Phone Fax	The phone and fax numbers for the contact. By default, they are set to the phone and fax numbers for the group, but you can edit these values. The Phone and Fax fields have a field available from which you can select a different value (Fax, Mobile, Other, or Phone) for the field label, or you can enter a user-defined value. To enter a user-defined value, double-click the current field label to select it, and then enter the user-defined value over the selected label.
Email Address	The email address for the contact. If your computer is connected to a network, click the Search icon to open a Global Address Lookup dialog and search for the email address.
External Reference	Links the contact to an outside program if needed.
Notes	Information related to the contact.
Set as Default	Sets the contact as the default contact for the selected group. If a default contact has been defined for a group, then when you specify the group information for a reservation, the Contact field automatically populates with the name of the default contact. You can specify a contact as the default contact for a selected group at a later date. To do so, select the contact in the right pane of the group-specific window, click Set Default, and then click Yes at the prompt.
Inactive	Leave blank to add the contact as an active contact. Select to inactivate the contact.

Optionally, do one or both of the following:
- Click Spelling to spell check the information for the contact before you save it.
- Create an Everyday User from the contact.
Click OK.

Configure a Contact from a Group

Navigate to Tools > Create Contact from Another Group.

A second Groups window opens.
Search for the group that is to be the source of the contact, and then click Select.

The Contact dialog opens.

The name of the group that you just selected displays in the Group field and you cannot edit this value. The remainder of the fields display the information for the selected group or user.
Edit the information for the new contact.

Field	Description
Contact	The name of the contact (50 character maximum including spaces).
Title	The title (Mr., Ms., Dr., and so on) of the contact.
Group	Populated with the name of the group that you selected first (the group for which you are configuring the contact). You cannot change this value.
Address	Populated with the address of the contact. If the contact address is the same as the group address, then select Use Group Address to populated the address fields with the group address; otherwise, you can edit these values.
International	Not applicable if Use Group Address is selected. Select this option to drop the State and Zip fields from the address for an international contact.
Phone Fax	The phone number and fax number for the group. The Phone and Fax fields have a field available from which you can select a different value (Fax, Mobile, Other, or Phone) for the field label, or you can enter a user-defined value. To enter a user-defined value, double-click the current field label to select it, and then enter the user-defined value over the selected label.
Email Address	The email address for the contact. If your computer is connected to a network, click the Search icon to open a Global Address Lookup dialog and search for the email address.
External Reference	Links the contact to an outside program if needed.
Notes	Other information for the contact.
Set as Default	Select if the contact is to be the default contact for the selected group. If a default contact has been defined for a group, then when you specify the group information for a reservation, the Contact field is automatically populated with the name of the default contact. You can always specify a contact as the default contact for a selected group at a later date. See Edit the Contacts for a Group.
Inactive	Leave blank to add the contact as an active contact. Select to inactivate the contact.

Optionally, do one or both of the following:
- Click Spelling to spell check the information for the contact before you save it.
- Create an Everyday User from the contact.
Click OK.

The Contact dialog closes. The contact is added to the group.

Create an Everyday User from a Contact

An Everyday User is a registered user who can submit requests for reservations or schedule reservations in EMS Web App. When you add a contact to a group in your EMS database, you might also need to create an Everyday User from the contact. This Everyday User can then create and view reservations on behalf of the contact in EMS Web App. You can create only one Everyday User from a contact. When you create an Everyday User, you can also specify one or more delegates for the Everyday User. A delegate is an Everyday User who can create and view reservations on behalf of another Everyday User.

To create an everyday user from a contact:

If needed, open the group that contains the contact in the group’s specific window. See Configure Contacts.
In the left pane of the group-specific window, make sure that Contacts is selected.
In the right pane of the window, select the contact from which you are creating the Everyday User.
Click Tools > Create Everyday User from Contact. A contact-specific dialog opens.

The Everyday User tab is the active tab.

The User Defined Fields tab displays the questions that an Everyday User was required to answer when the user requested to create an account through EMS Web App and it is not relevant to the procedure that is described below.

Enter the information for the new Everyday User.

Ideally, you should enter all the necessary information for your Everyday User before you save the Everyday User. To access your Everyday User at any time, on the EMS menu bar, navigate to Configuration > Everyday User Applications > Everyday Users.

Field	Description
Name	Automatically populated after you select the contact.
Password	The password that an Everyday User must enter to log in to EMS Web App.
Email address	If this information has been entered for the contact, then this field is automatically populated after you select the contact. If the field is blank, you must enter the full email address for the user. (The user must enter this address to log in to EMS Web App.)
Phone/Fax	Optional fields. If this information has been entered for the contact, then these fields are automatically populated after you select the contact. If the fields are blank, you can enter values if needed.
Notes	Optional field.
External Reference	Optional field. Links the Everyday User to an outside program if needed.
Network ID	Optional field. The Everyday User’s network ID.
Email Opt Out	Select if the Everyday User is not to receive automatic emails (such as reservation summary emails) from EMS Web App. The user will still receive manually sent emails.
Status	Required field. Select the status for the Everyday User: Active – The Everyday User can log in to EMS Web App. Inactive – The user cannot log in to EMS Web App and is instructed to contact the EMS administrator. Pending – The Everyday User cannot log in to EMS Web App and is informed that he/she must check back at a later time.
Security Template	Required field. Determines the Everyday User's access to the system—the menu items that the user can see and the information that the user can view in a tooltip when 'rolling-over' an event in EMS Web App. Learn about Configure Everyday User Process Templates.
Time Zone	Required field. Select the time zone for the user.

Open the Process Templates tab and on the Available list, select the Everyday User Process template or Ctrl-click to select the multiple templates to which to which you are assigning the user, and then click the Move button (>) to move the selected templates to the Selected list.

An Everyday User Process template defines the functions that are available to each type of Everyday User in EMS Web App when the user is submitting a request for a reservation.

Open the Groups tab and do one of the following to specify the groups on whose behalf the Everyday User can view and make reservations in EMS Web App.
- The contact’s group is selected by default. You can leave this group in the Selected list, or you can select the group and click the Remove button (<).
- Specify any combination of search criteria for Find and Group Type, and then click Display to produce a list of all groups that meet the criteria. In the Available list, select a group, or Ctrl-click to select multiple groups, and then click the Move button (>) to move the selected groups to the Selected list.

If you leave the Find field blank, then a list of all currently active groups for the selected group type displays. If you enter a search string in the Find field, the string is not case-sensitive, but your search is limited to the exact order of the characters in the string and it must begin with the information for which you are searching. For example, a search string of AAA returns AAAColorado, but not Colorado AAA.

Select the Delegates tab, and in Search by, do one of the following to specify the delegates for the Everyday User:
- Leave Find blank, and then click Display to open a list of all currently available Everyday Users. Select an Everyday User, or Ctrl-click to select multiple Everyday Users, and then click the Move button (>) to move the selected Everyday Users to the Selected list.
- In Search By, select the option by which to search (Email Address or User Name), and in Find, enter the string by which to filter your search, and then click Display. Select an Everyday User, or Ctrl-click to select multiple Everyday Users, and then click the Move button (>) to move the selected Everyday Users to the Selected list.

The string is not case-sensitive, but your search is limited to the exact order of the characters in the string and it must begin with the information for which you are searching. For example, if searching by Email Address, a search string of bob returns bob.worth@dea.com but not dbobbett@dea.com.

Click Spelling to spell check any information that you manually entered for the user.
Click OK.
A success message opens.
Click OK.