Email

An Email column stores an email address and treats it as one. SAPUGO checks that each value looks like a real address, for example andrew@example.com, instead of accepting any text.

When to use it#

Use Email for a contact address on a record: Billing Email, Site Contact, or Supplier Email.

Pick a different type when:

• The person is a member of your organization: use Person. Their profile already has their address.
• The contact is a full record with a phone number, a company, and a history: keep contacts in their own table and link to them with a Relation.

Settings#

An Email column has no type-specific settings. You can still make it required or unique under Show advanced options.

Tips#

• Name the column after whose address it is, such as "Billing Email" rather than "Email".
• An Email column stores the address. Sending messages is done by a workflow, which can read the address from this column.
• Turn on Unique Values when no two records should share an address, such as a customer list.
• An Email column can be converted to Text, and a Text column can be converted to Email. See Change a column's type.