Contact field

A Contact field allows the user to add a Groove contact to a record. Depending on the properties set for the field, the Groove contact shows its awareness icon and authentication color, and provides the standard right-click context menu. A Contact field is mainly useful when used in combination with a Forms script that defines an action to be executed with the selected contact. For example, a Form script might result in an instant message being sent to the selected contact whenever the record is updated, or when specific fields in the record are updated.

Users can add only one contact to a contact field. However, a form can contain multiple contact fields.

Set properties for this field as follows:

Label. Enter a label and a position setting relative to the field. If you want to apply special text formatting to the field label (to override the default style settings), click Rich Text, select the label text, right-click to open a context menu, and select formatting options.
Hide Awareness Icon. Check if you don't want to show the contact's awareness icon.
Hide Context Menu. Check if you want to disable the standard right-click context menu.
Use Authentication Color. Check if you want the contact name text to display with authentication colors.
Name. Enter a name for this field. You can also leave this property blank and the field name will automatically be derived from the value entered in the Label property. Field names cannot be changed once the field is created.