# Excluding contact type from a deal based workflow **URL:** \ **Category:** Lists, Lead Scoring & Workflows\ **Tags:** workflows, crm\ **Created:** [November 10, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/excluding-contact-type-from-a-deal-based-workflow/46745 "2021-11-10T05:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChrisChiha](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/chrischiha/32/90510_2.png) [@ChrisChiha](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ChrisChiha)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/excluding-contact-type-from-a-deal-based-workflow/46745/1 "2021-11-10T05:35:17Z")
Hello, I am creating automated workflows for my transactional emails, and as i am using deal personalization tokens, i have to set my workflow as deal based workflow.Is there a guaranteed approach to exclude a certain contact type from my deal based workflow ? So that the email wont reach everybody associated with that deal ?Certain contact types should be strictly excluded from the workflow, and i want to know if this is possible in a deal based workflow. I am targeting one specific contact type in the worfklow by specifying the contact type, but the other contact types associated within the deal got the email as well. Thank you, ---
**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 5:44am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/excluding-contact-type-from-a-deal-based-workflow/46745/2 "2021-11-10T05:44:14Z")
Hi @ChrisChiha, Until a while ago, the best solution for this kind of problem was to re-create the deal-based workflow as a contact-based workflow (which isn’t possible in all but a lot of cases). Now there has been a product update, [flexible associations and association labels](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/crm-setup/associations-enhancements-beta). These labels let you define which contacts in a deal-based workflow should receive an email: ![karstenkoehler_0-1636523018696.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/d/cd1fa101aa6c15437d2537de86da518d6e78320b.png) If you want to be able to filter for contact properties however, you’d have to recreate the workflow as a contact-based workflow. That is the only way to gatekeep which contacts should or should not receive emails. Best regards! ---
**Author:** ![ChrisChiha](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/chrischiha/32/90510_2.png) [@ChrisChiha](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ChrisChiha)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/excluding-contact-type-from-a-deal-based-workflow/46745/3 "2021-11-10T05:54:54Z")
The problem when i create a new contact based workflow, it wont let me pick my email template as it contains deal based personalization token. I will go for the association labels. I added it to my workflow, but can you please give me a hint on how to add labels to certain contacts? ---
**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 6:00am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/excluding-contact-type-from-a-deal-based-workflow/46745/4 "2021-11-10T06:00:33Z")
Hi @ChrisChiha, You can edit these labels on the deal record. In the right sidebar, find the _Contacts_ section, hover over a contact, click _More_ and _Edit association labels_. Keep in mind that this is still in beta and might behave buggy. I’d recommend thorough testing. Best regards! ---
**Author:** ![ChrisChiha](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/chrischiha/32/90510_2.png) [@ChrisChiha](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ChrisChiha)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 6:12am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/excluding-contact-type-from-a-deal-based-workflow/46745/5 "2021-11-10T06:12:43Z")
Wow great, that’s a nice feature. One final QQ please. Do you think i can have associated labels populate automatically for certain contacts in deal, when a deal is created ? This way when a deal is created, the contact with contact type “CEO” for example will have the label “CEO” and he will be excluded from my email workflow acordingly. ---
**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 6:15am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/excluding-contact-type-from-a-deal-based-workflow/46745/6 "2021-11-10T06:15:05Z")
Hi @ChrisChiha, Association labels are a fairly new feature, I don’t think this is possible yet. Best regards!