The TIMS3 Data Manager allows you to record contact information for each company in the database. You can review this contact information by pressing [...] Button on the Companies Reviewing.
Alternatively, contact information may be reviewed and edited from the main Customer/Contacts menu. When clicking the Contact Detailed button on this menu, you will see the Contacts search form. You can use the standard search facilities for locating a contact record.
When you click on the Refresh query icon to initiate the database search, TIMS3 will display the records that match your search criteria in the Contacts review form.
To enter a new contact, you can click on the Add Record in the review form or the Cancel icon in the search form. You will then be presented with the insert form as follows:
You select the company that this contact is associated with from the list of companies recorded in the database. You can enter the Company name by clicking on the Pull-Down icon, and the selecting the Company from the list that is presented. Alternatively, you can key in the Company name. The system will display the first name that matches the letter or letters that you have keyed in.
There are certain fields whose values can only be selected from a predefined list of possible values. These are the Contact prefix and suffix, and the contact method as shown on the above figure.
The owner, group and date are filled in automatically by the system.
