Creating a Contact Database

To create a new contact database:

1. In the Home menu or in the Authoring quick-start menu click Contact Databases.

The Contact Database List page opens - . This page lists all the contact databases that you have access to.



Figure 1 - Example of the Contact Database List page

1. Click the New Contact Database button in the upper-right corner of the page.

The New Contact Database overlay opens - .



Figure 2 - The New Contact Database overlay

2. Type in a name for your new contact database, and select the hub to which it will be connected.

Note: All contact databases must be associated with a hub. If you do not have access to a hub (none are listed in the drop-down), then you must create a hub before you can create the contact database. Refer to the separate SmartHub documentation for further information.

3. Click Create Contact Database.

The database is created and opens at the Overview page - . Note that at this stage the database has no content.

Figure 3 - Example of the contact database Overview page

Here you can edit the name of the database, add a description, select and deselect the languages that are to be available, and select and deselect categories and keywords. You can add a title for the database in each language that is selected, and some additional information is provided that may be useful to the administrator.

You can now go to the Designer page to set up the content of the database (go to Designer for more information).