Add a contact to a project or change their project status within a project

You can add a contact to a project or change their project status within a project.

In other words, you can:

  1. Add a contact to a project

  2. Remove a contact from a project

  3. Change a contact’s project status on a project e.g. from Waiting List to Enrolled

  • A project can have 4 project statuses enabled: Waiting List, Enrolled, Alumni and Declined

  • The Enrolled status is always enabled. The other project states need to be enabled on the project preferences page of that project. How to enable other Project States.

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1. Add a contact to another project

Pro Tip: to add several contacts to one or more projects at the same time, use Bulk Assign Contacts to Projects

  1. Select the Move between projects button on the Contact’s profile page

  2. In the popup it will list the projects that exist within the organisation

  3. Select Enrolled in the dropdown list next to each project add the contact to that project

  4. Press Close

2. Remove a contact from a project

  1. Select the Move between projects button on the Contact’s profile page

  2. In the popup it will list the projects that exist within the organisation

  3. If a contact is already within a project, the Remove from project option appears within the dropdown list.

    1. Clicking this will remove the contact from the project.

    2. If the Declined state is enabled on a project, consider whether you wish to fully remove the contact from the project or whether it would be more useful to move them to the Declined state of that project

3. Change a contact’s project status on a project e.g. from Waiting List to Enrolled

  1. Select the Move between projects button on the Contact’s profile page

  2. In the popup it will list the projects that exist within the organisation and it will likely say “Enrolled” in the dropdown list that appears next to the project(s) that the contact is already part of

  3. As long as you have enabled other States on the project, when you open the dropdown list you will see additional options for Waiting List, Alumni and Declined

  4. Select the state you want to move the contact to from the dropdown list next to that project

  5. Press Close

  6. The contact has now been moved to a different state within the project. You will see news of this on the Contact Profile page when you expand their history section.

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