General tab
The General tab contains the details about the Organization.
The information is organized in the following fields and sections:
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Parent - shows the name of the parent Organization to which this Organization is subordinate. If this Organization is on the top level of hierarchy, the field appears empty. When this Organization is subordinate, that is the Parent field is not empty, the field label becomes hyperlinked and you can open the corresponding Organization record by clicking this link.
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Location - displays the physical location of the company. When the Location field is filled out, you can open the Location record by clicking the field label that becomes a link.
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Manager - displays the name of the Person selected as the Organization manager. When the manager is chosen, the field label becomes hyperlinked and you can open the corresponding Person record by clicking this link.
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Categorization section contains the following fields:
- Type - shows the type of Organization (.
- Category - displays the category of Organization.
- Internal - indicates if this record describes your Organization. All other companies with which your organization has any relationships (for example, suppliers, customer organizations, etc.) are considered external. Only one top-level Organization can be marked as internal, in this case all its subordinate Organizations are considered as internal as well. For details, see Marking Organizations as internal.
- Type - shows the type of Organization (.
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Email - shows the e-mail address for the organization. Once you fill in this field, you can click the Email hyperlink to open a blank e-mail message in your default e-mail client.
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Phone - displays the contact telephone number of the organization.
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Fax - shows the facsimile number of the organization.
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Web Page - shows the organization’s website address. Once you fill in this field, you can click the Web Page hyperlink to connect to the specified web site.
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Address and Address 2 - allows you to store one or two addresses for the organization, for example, the shipping and the billing addresses.
The General tab may also display various user-defined fields in an additional section if your Alloy Navigator administrator has configured them accordingly. The default name of this section is "Custom Data", although your Alloy Navigator administrator may have renamed this section.
NOTE: User-defined fields can appear also on the Custom Data tab (this is the default name of the tab; it can be renamed by your Alloy Navigator administrator).