Contact Groups in e-manage|ONE provide a flexible way for users to organize contacts according to their preferences. Whether you're looking to collaborate with others or keep your contacts private, here's how you can effectively utilize Contact Groups:
Creating and Managing Groups:
From any grid containing contact information (Recent Records, Favorites, Leads, etc.), you can add contacts to a group by:
Highlighting the contacts.
Right-clicking and selecting "Add To Group."
To create a new group, click the "New" button, enter a Group Name, and then click "Save."
Sharing Groups:
Click on the newly created group, and you can choose to share it with other users by:
Highlighting one or more users using SHIFT + CLICK or CTRL + CLICK methods.
Click the ">>" button and select "Add Contact(s) to Selected Group."
Adding Contacts to Groups:
From any grid containing contact information (Recent Records, Favorites, Leads, etc.), you can add contacts to a group by:
Highlighting the contacts.
Right-clicking and selecting "Add To Group."
Within any grid containing contact information, highlight selected contacts, right-click, and select "Add to Group."
Select "More" in the lower-left toolbar, go to "Groups," hit the "+" sign, highlight the file, and click "Group Manager."
Click on your designated group, and then select "Add Contact(s) to Selected Group." You'll see the Members' number change, and the Assigned Users will disappear.
This is a video showing how to use and create Groups and below the video is additional information for setup and use.
Adding Contacts to a group from Analysis
Click on the "Analysis" menu, then on Contacts (or Project Contacts).
Choose the criteria that will bring up the list of contacts closes to what you want.
Note: if you are a salesperson, you will only see contacts where you are listed in the access list on the "Company Information" window.
Click the "Run Query" button.
Use Grid Filters if you need to further narrow your list of contacts. Highlight all of the contacts you want to add to a group (or select no contacts, and do not check the "Add Selected Contacts Only" checkbox on the Groups panel). Click on the Groups pop-out panel in the toolbar inside of the "Analysis" tabbed window, choose the group you want to add the contacts to… choose whether or not to add only selected contacts and click the "Add Contact(s) to Selected Group" button.
You can view or remove Group Members from the "Groups" pop-out panel on the right side of the e-manage 7 main window by clicking on the contact group you want to work with, then clicking on the "View / Remove Group Members" button on the bottom of the panel.
Remove Contacts from the group by highlighting the rows in the grid and then pressing the DELETE key on your keyboard and saying "Yes" to the confirmation.
You can make this grid more useful by Configuring Editable Fields to allow users to edit information directly in the grid.
You can use groups to Perform Mail Merges and to send bulk e-mails simply by dragging and dropping the Group Folder from the Groups pop-out panel into the recipients list box in either window.