Add existing contact to job without opening job
Right now to add an existing contact to a job you need to open the job, there is no quick drop down menu. The quick add drop down of "add contact" should let you choose existing or new
Aha! You can already do this, then. When you’re on the job, just hit “Edit” on that job and in the “Related Contacts” field, start typing your contact’s name.
If the contact is there, you can select them, but if not you’ll see the option “Add New”. Click on that, then fill in the contact and, when you save, it will add that contact as a related contact to the job’s edit menu, then just save that job again and you’re done!
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Jason Omelchuck commented
This is where the confusion comes in for training. To add a contact to a Job, you don't hit the add contact button at top of screen, you don't hit the add contact button in the gear icon, you hit the edit button. There are a lot of buttons that say what I want to do but all of them take me on a round about trip. The button I want, I must know to use it this way. I don't expect a change but I have been using nimbus for a few months and when I need to add a contact while looking at a Job I am still tempted by the add contact button even though it is the longest rout to add a contact to that Job. I will start using edit to add contacts, just have to train my brain to do it.
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Jason Omelchuck commented
If you are looking at a Job and need to add a contact to the Job there are two buttons you can hit. The first is the gear icon add contact which takes you to the add contact page and you add the contact then have to go back to the Job and edit it to add the contact you just created. This gives you no chance to try to search for the contact to see if it actually exists. The second way is to hit the add contact button at the top of the page which takes you through the same loop.
It would be cool if when you were looking at a Job and wanted to add or search for a contact there was a add contact button that was smart enough to know you were talking about the Job you are currently viewing. When you hit this add contact button it would give you the opportunity to start typing to search, if you find the contact, click on them and it would add them to the Job you opened the window from. If you did not find them, it would give you the opportunity to add the contact information and when you clicked OK, it would add the contact to the database and connect it to the Job you were in when you clicked add contact.