I have two suggestions to improve the merge process at the contact level. First is the ability to display additional information when choosing a contact to merge. In the case below, if I want to merge another contact named Joe Smith or Joseph Smith with this one and I search for a name like that which may be very common, how do I know to pick the right "Joe Smith" from that list, especially if there's not an email associated. It would be a nice enhancement to allow the user to select an additional contact property to display beside the name to help narrow down the options there. Additionally, this screen should allow for the ability to choose which contact to merge into, similar to how the Manage Duplicates page does. For example, if I wanted to set up a merge but keep the record on the left as the record to merge into, that's not possible from that contact screen. But the Manage Duplicates process does it this way and it would be a great enhancement.
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