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Bradyhed10's avatar
Bradyhed10
Active Contributor
11 months ago

New contact update

How are companies recommended to organize shared contacts with locations in different states and different customer basis?   Also would be useful to be able to turn this off in admin.   Currently...
  • KateG's avatar
    KateG
    11 months ago

    Hi Bradyhed10 Happy New Year. 

     

    By design, shared contacts can be added and modified by everyone. 

     

    There are enterprise contacts, where contacts are only modified by the admin in the admin portal. An admin needs to re-upload all contacts each time they want to do modify contact (note this process is currently being improved). 

     

     Neither of these processes would allow you to control different state/branch within 1 pbx/organization. Access is controlled per organisation. Everyone in the organization can see all contacts from that organization. The quickess way to achieved your goal would be to  have 1 organization per branch/state

KateG's avatar
KateG
GoTo Moderator
11 months ago

Hi Bradyhed10 Happy New Year. 

 

By design, shared contacts can be added and modified by everyone. 

 

There are enterprise contacts, where contacts are only modified by the admin in the admin portal. An admin needs to re-upload all contacts each time they want to do modify contact (note this process is currently being improved). 

 

 Neither of these processes would allow you to control different state/branch within 1 pbx/organization. Access is controlled per organisation. Everyone in the organization can see all contacts from that organization. The quickess way to achieved your goal would be to  have 1 organization per branch/state

  • Bradyhed10's avatar
    Bradyhed10
    Active Contributor
    10 months ago

    Thank you for your response,

    Is that what other companies do that have other organizations?  I can imagine that even single locations that are very large do not need contacts shared throughout the company. Do they just connect these locations through Dial plans?

     

    Accounting department might have different contacts then sales vs IT vs developers. But all of Accounting might want to share contacts with each other and all of IT might want to share contacts with each other. 

     

    Do you plan on updating this so that it can be turned off on the admin side?

     

    • KateG's avatar
      KateG
      GoTo Moderator
      10 months ago

      Updates are coming on the admin side where certain contacts can only be modified by the admin. This sounds like it may be better suited to your purpose. I don't have a timeline for this, but we do keep the Community updated when improvements and new features are released.