# Contact

The `Contact` family — 7 operations.

A contact is a reusable set of contact details kept once at group level — a person (name, title, emails and phones), an address, or both, with notes — for the outside parties and functions you deal with; your own buildings keep their addresses on their locations. Create it here and keep it current, then attach it where it belongs through contact assignments; a contact with live assignments stays put until those are removed.

## Operations

| Operation | Kind | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [contact](/reference/contact/contact/) | query | Look up one record — a contact — a person or address book entry. |
| [contacts](/reference/contact/contacts/) | query | The contact list — each entry is a contact — a person or address book entry. |
| [createContact](/reference/contact/createContact/) | mutation | Create a new contact — a person or address book entry at your organization. |
| [deactivateContact](/reference/contact/deactivateContact/) | mutation | Deactivate a contact — a person or address book entry — it stops being usable but keeps its history and can be reactivated. |
| [doomContact](/reference/contact/doomContact/) | mutation | Permanently retire a contact — a person or address book entry. |
| [reactivateContact](/reference/contact/reactivateContact/) | mutation | Reactivate a contact — a person or address book entry — bring a deactivated record back into use. |
| [updateContact](/reference/contact/updateContact/) | mutation | Edit a contact — a person or address book entry — change its details. |