Assign Contact Owner to No Owner

Ownership of Office Accelerator contacts provide the ability to set access levels on contacts that are owned by you. If you are the designated owner of one or more contacts, you can set the following contact Access levels:

Contact Access Levels

Title	Description
Owner Only	Contacts can be viewed and edited by the owner only; they are not visible to any other Office Accelerator user.
Owner and Proxies Only	Contacts can be viewed and edited by the owner and proxies only, but are not visible to any other Office Accelerator user. A proxy is another Office Accelerator user that can be authorized to view contacts owned by you.
Everyone	Contacts are visible and can be edited by any Office Accelerator user.
Full Access for Owners and Proxies, Read-Only Access to All Contact data for Others	Contacts visible to all users, but can be edited by owner and proxies only.
Full Access for Owners and Proxies, Read-Only Access to name, address, phones, emails and web sites for Others	Contacts are visible to all users, can be edited by owner and proxies, and can be partially edited by all other users (name, address, phone numbers, emails and web addresses are read-only for all other users).

To assign contact access level on a contact, your Office Accelerator account must have the appropriate user rights. By default, standard Office Accelerator user accounts do not have adequate privileges to make contact ownership changes. If your Accelerator User Login is set as an Accelerator Administrator, the Administrator option will be visible within the |File| menu of the Accelerator Phone Book. To open the Administration Utility, select |File|Administrator|User Right Settings|. Locate and highlight your login, then click the |Modify| button and select |Assign All Rights|. To save these changes, click the |Save| button, then click |Done|. You will need to close the Office Accelerator phone book and re-open the phone book in order for user right changes to take effect.

Removing ownership of a contact and assigning a 'No Owner' value is useful in networked environments where you have both owned and firm wide contacts. Where owned contacts may be restricted, firm wide contacts could be available for all users and access levels set accordingly. For example, all users can be made proxy to the 'No Owner' user (a specialized user in OA) and contact access level can be set to read-only on name, address, phone, and email, but notes, logs and custom fields open to edit for all users.

To assign ownership of a contact to 'No Owner', search for the contact you wish to set to 'No Owner'.
From the |File| menu within the Office Accelerator phone, select |Assign Contact Owner|Assign Selected Contact to No Owner|. When prompted click |Yes| to implement the change.
A summary of the changes made will appear when the process is complete.