Last night we pushed an update that streamlines the “edit contact” process.

Before the update uploading a photo, editing contact information, and changing permissions was a 3-tab multi-click process. Now you can make all these changes on a single tab called “Contact and Permissions.”

Here’s what it looks like:

To upload a new photo for someone just click the “Change” link under the photo:

You’ll be asked to select the photo on your hard drive, the photo will be uploaded, and you’ll be dropped right back on the “Contact and Permissions” screen to make whatever other changes you’d like.

When you’re done, just click the “Save this person” button at the bottom.

Cutting a few clicks out of this process will save you a fair bit of time—especially if you’re adding/editing people often. We hope you find the change as useful as we do.

Thanks for your continued support.

Much easier Jason, thanks.

Do you have plans to add this to the “add a new person” page as well?

Any thoughts about putting tags on there as well? Adding a new entity is a punctuated process: Name (click), contact information (click), tags

Is it me or is it so that the new photo upload don´t work on Safari on mac?

Andreas: It should definitely work on Safari. If you’re having trouble, please write support and we’ll get to the bottom of it.

Richard: Thanks for the feedback. This was a first step, and we’ll continue to look at ways we can streamline the process.

I have the same problem as Andreas with Safari 3.0.3.

If you really want to streamline contact edits Jason:

- Get rid of the white space between fields, and disembiggen the screen generally
- Allow user flexibility in enabling/ordering the field categories and integrate them all into fewer dropdowns
- Put in a scratchpad for first cut/paste imports etc
- Automatically capitalise first letter of name, title, company.
- Auto save when leaving screen, or bring up option query to do so, instead of having to scroll to bottom to save changes; or failing that, put the “Save this person” at the top

- Put in a scratchpad for first cut/paste imports etc

I currently use the address field for this purpose.

Another great modification – more for aesthetics/anal retentive folks – would be to standardize the way that phone numbers appear. Depending on how they were entered or uploaded, they can be (312) / 312- / 312., and it would be great to have a standardized look. Not hugely important in the scheme of things, but still…

@jillkbishop:

The only problem with that would be international folk such as myself. Our numbers are ‘formatted’ different in Australia, eg., 99 9999 9999 for landlines or 9999 999 999 for mobiles. It’s just easier for people to enter the number the way they like, as even over here, some people write out phone numbers with different groupings, eg., 999 999 9999 for mobile.

I would not like a standardized format for phone numbers. I like to be able to write what I want in that field.

I agree: let the phone numbers go as they will.

Even for US/Canada-only sites, I go NUTS when a web site forces me to enter parentheses, etc. With a trivial amount of JavaScript, the site could count seven or ten numeric characters and just accept that.

- Put in a scratchpad for first cut/paste imports etc

I currently use the address field for this purpose.
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Perhaps ScriptMonkey or something could parse a full address dropped into the Address textarea and distribute it to City, etc.

Cheers

P.S. exactly how does “bq.” actually work ?

P.S. exactly how does “bq.” actually work ?

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