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Create Contact Request¶

Requests for OroCRM support, including partnership proposals, complaints, additional information and assistance requests that come from a third-party application or have been registered directly in OroCRM are collected with the “Create Contact Request” actions.

Create a Contact Request from OroCRM¶

In order to create a contact request from OroCRM:

Go to Activities → Contact Requests.
Click the Create Contact Request button.
The “Create Contact Request” form will appear. The form has the following fields:

Name	Description
First Name*	The first name of the person, who has requested support.
Last Name*	The last name of the person, who has requested support.
Channel*	The channel from which the request was received. The drop-down menu contains all the channels to which the Contact Request entity has been assigned in the alphabetical order. By default, it is filled with the first channel in the list.
Organization Name	The name of an organization, on behalf of which the request has been filed, if any. This field is for information and search purposes only.
Preferred Contact Method*	Choose the contact method to be used of the list. The possible values are: Both phone and email Phone Email By default, the field is set to Email.
Phone and Email	Contact details related to the request. The values are determined by the Preferred Contact Method and must be defined.
Contact Reason	Choose a contact reason from the drop-down menu to simplify the request analysis. The field is by default set to Other.
Comment*	Actual text of the request. This must be filled.

Click the button in the top right corner to save the request.

For example, there was a request from Mr. Jack Johnson, representative of the General Ltd. interested in OroCRM’s multichannel functionality.

Create a Contact Request from a Third-Party Application¶

Add the code for the form on your site, as described in the Embedded Forms guide. Use the forms of the “Magento Contact Us Request” type for the Magento-based businesses and of the “Contact Request” type for the other websites. Every time a user has filled the form it will be added to the Contact Requests grid in Oro CRM.

Note

Other contact request types can be developed in the course of integration, according to your specific business needs.

View and Manage Contact Requests¶

All the Contact Requests can be viewed from the Contact Requests grid.

From the grid, you can manage the Contact Request using the action icons:
- Delete the request:
- Get to the Edit form of the request:
- Get to the View page of the request: