Contact(s)
This option specifies a list of contacts to include in the report. It is available only for Relations Charts.
A contact is an e-mail address, a social network user ID or an instant messenger user ID, etc. Contacts can be used to identify users who have an account in the organization’s domain (internal users) as well as users without such an account (external contacts).
When created with this option, the Relations Chart shows the specified contacts along with the users who communicated with those contacts. Using such a Relations Chart, it is easy to find out who exchanges files and messages with certain persons outside or inside the organization:
•The Relations Chart displays only users who communicated with at least one of the specified contacts, as well as objects related to such users. Other users and their related objects are hidden.
•On the Relations Chart, the specified contacts are highlighted in green, and are circled by default.
•For each of the specified contacts, the Relations Chart by default reveals and expands the following objects:
•In the case of an external contact - objects related to the user who most actively communicated with that contact.
•In the case of a contact that belongs to an internal user - objects related to that user.
In this way, Relations Charts help locate specific contacts and identify their relationships with users.
To specify the contacts to be shown in the report, do one of the following:
•In the Contact(s) box, type contact names or IDs, separating them with a semicolon (;).
In a contact name or ID, you could use wildcards: an asterisk (*) to represent any sequence of characters, a question mark (?) to represent any single character.
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•Click Load to import contacts from a text file that specifies each contact’s name or ID on a separate line.