Contact Zone:Personator:Actions/Options

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The Actions/Options tab allows you to specify which actions and options you would like to perform.

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Personator Actions

Choose which action you wish to perform with the Personator component.

Verify
(Default) Will return the relationships between your different input data pieces. It can show you if your name, address, email, and phone number are correlated. For US only.
Append
Allows you to enrich your contact records with data returned by the Personator component. For US only.
Move
Updates the address when a move is found. For US only.

Append Options

Blank
Append data when incoming information is blank.
Always
Always append data with the information provided by Melissa Data.
Check Error
Append data when incoming information cannot be verified.


Address Options

Advanced Address Correction
If checked, this uses the Full Name/Company Name input to perform more advanced address corrections.
Advanced Options
The Advanced Options dialog allows you to specify more detailed options for Name, Address, Phone, and Email.


Advanced Options

The Advanced Options dialog allows you to specify more detailed options for Name, Address, Phone, and Email.

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Personator Actions Options

Centric Hint

Used to set which piece of information to use as the primary point of reference when appending data.

  • Auto
(Default) First uses Address, if available, followed by Phone if no Address is available, and lastly Email if neither Address nor Email are available.
  • Address
Uses Address as the primary point of reference.
  • Phone
Uses Phone as the primary point of reference.
  • Email
Uses Email as the primary point of reference.

Name Options

Name Hint

  • Varying
(Default) If necessary, statistical logic will be employed to determine name order, with no bias toward either name order.
  • Definitely Full
Name will always be treated as normal name order, regardless of formatting or punctuation.
  • Very Likely Full
Name will be treated as normal name order unless inverse order is clearly indicated by formatting or punctuation.
  • Probably Full
If necessary, statistical logic will be employed to determine name order, with a bias toward normal name order.
  • Probably Inverse
If necessary, statistical logic will be employed to determine name order, with a bias toward inverse name order.
  • Very Likely Inverse
Name will be treated as inverse name order unless normal order is clearly indicated by formatting or punctuation.
  • Definitely Inverse
Name will always be treated as inverse name order, regardless of formatting or punctuation.
  • Mixed First Name
Name field is expected to only contain prefixes, first, and middle names.
  • Mixed Last Name
Name field is expected to only contain last names and suffixes.

Middle Name Logic

Determines the handling of middle names.

  • Parse Logic
(Default) Middle names that are typically last names are considered to be part of a hyphenated last name.
  • Hypenated Last
The middle word is assumed to be part of the last name. For Example: "Matthew Edward Jones" is treated as "Matthew Edward-Jones."
  • Middle Name
The middle word is assumed to be a middle name. For example: "Matthew Svensson Jones." "Svensson" would be considered a middle name instead of part of the last name.

Salutation Format

Sets the salutation format for the response.

  • Formal
(Default) Mr. Smith
  • Informal
John
  • First Last
John Smith
Gender Population
Default is Mixed. Sets the gender balance of the source data, either predominantly Male, Female, or Mixed (evenly split).
Gender Aggression
Default is Neutral. Sets how aggressive genderization is for neutral first names, either Neutral, Conservative, or Aggressive.
Correct First Name
Checked by default. If checked, allows common spelling corrections for the First Name field.
Standardize Company Name
Checked by default. If checked, the Company Name field will be returned with standard abbreviation, capitalization, and punctuation rules applied.

Address Options

Diacritics
Default is auto. If on, French language characters will be returned.
Preferred City
Default is off. For every city in the United States, there is an official name that is preferred by the U.S. Postal Service. There may be one or more unofficial or “vanity” names in use. Normally, Personator Component allows you to verify addresses using known vanity names. If Preferred City is on, the preferred city name will be substituted for all vanity names when it verifies an address.

Phone Options

Phone Format
Choose one of six different available phone formats:
  • (800) 800-6245: (Default) Parenthesis with dash.
  • (800) 800 6245: Parenthesis with space.
  • 800 800 6245: Spaces.
  • 800-800-6245: Dashes.
  • 800.800.6245: Periods.
  • 8008006245: No space.

Email Options

Correct Syntax
Checked by default. If checked, the syntax of the Email field will be corrected.
Update Domain
Checked by default. If checked, determines whether the domain name is out of date and updates it.
Database Look up
Checked by default. If checked, verification of domain names will be attempted using a database of valid domains.
Standardize Casing
Checked by default. If checked, all letters in the Email field will be changed to lower case before any checking occurs.