How to add new Contacts
To add a new contact to your Sumac database, click Contacts
in the main Sumac console window then click New.
In the window that opens, enter some basic information about the new contact. You need to first specify whether you are adding a new individual or an organization to your database.
For an individual, enter the contact's first and last name. Every contact in Sumac must have a
last name, so Last Name is a mandatory field.
To avoid adding a duplicate contact, the bottom half of this
window lets you review a list of contacts with similar sounding last names. Exact
matches appear in Red, and this helps you ensure that you are not creating a
new contact record for a contact who is already in your database.
When you are done entering information, click OK at the bottom of the window to add this contact to your database.
If you specified an email address for the
new contact, when you click OK Sumac searches the entire database looking for contacts with the
same email address. If there are any, then you get a message that tells you how
many contacts have the same email address. You can click Add, to ignore the duplicate email addresses.
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