Groups resulting from contact searches are called dynamic groups. Dynamic groups are unique in that they will continue to collect contacts who match the query that created them.

Creating a Dynamic Group

Once you enter a query, Community Connect will return the group of contacts who match it:

You can save this new group by clicking the "Save as Group" button underneath the search bar:

Once a Dynamic Group is saved, any new contacts that match the query will be automatically placed in it.

Queries

The query you enter will operate on all contact fields present in your account. Note that fields and values are not case sensitive within a query.

Operators

In the query pictured above, we're referencing a contact field called 'Age' and using the operators "greater than or equal to" '>=' and "less than or equal to" '<=' to specify the desired characteristics of the contacts you're searching for. Note that with contact fields containing two or more words, spaces need to be replaced with underscores, e.g.id_number=409328

Statements

You can use 'OR' statements to match two or more contact field values, and 'AND' statements to filter contacts by contact field.

For example,

(city="Oakland" or city="Berkeley")

will return only those contacts whose 'City' field contains "Oakland" or "Berkeley", and

(city="Oakland" and gender="Male")

will return only those contacts whose 'City' field contains "Oakland" and whose "Gender" field contains "Male".

(tel has 123)

will return only those contacts whose phone number contains '123'.

(name has "Be")

will return only those contacts whose 'Name' field contains 'Be'.

Field Types

Text values containing multiple words must be enclosed in quotation marks, e.g. city = "san francisco", while operators like '>=' only work with Numeric and Date & Time values.