Finding the owner of a record

The record owner is the person that should be contacted for information about the record. The record owner can be a different person to the user who created or updated the record.

About this task

When you use either Show or a datasheet, there are two ways of displaying the contact details for the owner of the record:

  • Click the username that is shown in the owner, or a similarly named, field. The user name is displayed as a hyperlink.

  • Click Edit and then double-click the user name.

Procedure

To find out who these users were:

  1. Right-click on the record in any record list and, from the menu, select Properties.

  2. Click User Information
    to display the contact details for the person who created or updated the record.