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Jeff, this would be good. I think you do need to have the options as there will always be users that want to have it one way or another.

Having said that I would suggest that option 3 should be the default. We spend an inordinate amount of time training and cajoling clients to create companies. It is a highly under-utilised side of the application. That is mostly because there is so much work involved in manually creating contacts and then linking all the conacts to it.

I think another option should be to ask when adding a contact - similar to the way you can have it ask when adding a contact with more than 2 names how it should parse it.

Sometimes, you do want a new company... and sometimes you might not.

This might make a better default option.

Options 1,2,3 above should also be available for Imports... obviously my one wouldn't apply there :-)

Hi Jeff,

Yes this is definitely one I get asked about regularly. Would be a great addition and massive time saver.

And... we also need the ability to automatically create Companies from existing contacts in the database.

Jeff

I've written a small application for a client that takes all the contacts in a database and creates companies from the existing contacts (and links them to the companies). It also has a button that deletes all the companies from a database (so that you can create a whole new set of companies).

I will be posting the application on our site 123-addons.com next week for anyone interested.

T