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Authority Administration · Customer guide

Contact Directory

A directory of veterinary authority contacts — distinct from Authority Users, because a contact can exist (as a notice recipient, say) long before anyone links it to an actual login.

Audience: Authority administrators Part of the Authority guide set

What this guide covers: the Contact Directory register, and adding, editing and retiring a contact.

The register

The register

Found at Authority Administration → Contact Directory. Columns: Name, Type, Institution, Contact (email/phone), Login state, Positions.

FieldValues
Contact typeState Veterinarian, Provincial Director, Other
Login stateLinked & active, linked & suspended, linked & ended, not linked

A contact existing here doesn't imply a usable Agribantu login — that's exactly what the Login state column is for.

Managing a contact

Adding, editing & retiring

Click Add Contact for name, institution, type, office, email/phone/address, and optionally a link to an eligible authority user. Open a contact's detail drawer to see historical reference counts — how many holding assignments, notice-delivery proofs and vaccination campaigns reference it — before you decide to Retire it (a reason is required; contacts are retired, never deleted, precisely so those historical references stay resolvable).

Bulk import

Bulk import — coming later

Contacts can only be added one at a time today. A planned bulk-import wizard for provincial veterinary contact lists (upserting by an external reference, so it can be re-run safely) is on the roadmap but not yet built. If you need to onboard a large existing contact list, expect to add them individually for now.