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Multi-User Admin: Managing Users & Sharing Content

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Updated over a week ago

You can either read through this article step by step, or scroll to the bottom of the page to watch the full recorded video walkthrough. Click here to go straight to the video.

This video focuses on how admins manage a team day to day - especially around sharing content, assigning contacts, using filter views, and managing tasks and opportunities.

This is Part 2 of the multi-user admin walkthrough. Part 1 covered the foundational admin setup (adding users, adding seats, and creating teams). Click here to watch Part 1.

Note: Filter views come up a lot in this walkthrough. This article assumes you already know the basics of filter views. If you get lost, refer to the Filter Views help content first.


Share templates with your team (shared vs copied)

Timestamp: 2:14

Admins can give users access to templates in two fundamentally different ways: sharing or copying. Choosing the right approach depends on whether you want centralized control or user-level customization.


Sharing templates with a team

Timestamp: 2:18

Sharing keeps templates centrally managed by the admin.

When a template is shared:

  • It appears for users under Shared with Me

  • The admin remains the owner

  • Any edits made by the admin automatically apply to all users

  • Users cannot edit the shared version directly, though they can make a copy of the template into their own templates to edit.

Steps:

  • Go to Communication

  • Click Templates

  • Locate the template folder

  • Edit the folder

  • Open Sharing

  • Select the team

  • Save

Users access shared templates from Communication → Templates → Shared with Me.


If a user cannot find a template, they should confirm they are not looking under My Templates.


Copying templates into a user’s account

Timestamp: 3:47

Copying creates a one-time duplicate that belongs entirely to the user.

When a template is copied:

  • The user becomes the owner

  • It appears under My Templates

  • There is no link back to the admin’s original

  • Future admin changes do not apply

Steps:

  • Select the template in the Templates table

  • Click Selected

  • Choose Copy to Users

  • Select the user

  • Confirm

Users can also copy shared templates themselves if they want to customize them.


Assign contact ownership across your team

Timestamp: 6:36

Contact ownership determines who is responsible for follow-up and visibility. Admins can assign or change ownership at multiple points.


Assign contacts during import

Timestamp: 7:12

If ownership is known before importing:

Steps:

  • Go to Contacts

  • Click Import Contact Lists

  • Select a user under Import on behalf of

  • Upload and complete the import

All imported contacts will be owned by that user.


Change contact ownership in bulk

Timestamp: 7:37

Bulk reassignment is useful when redistributing leads or rebalancing workloads.

Steps:

  • Go to Contacts

  • Select contacts using the checkboxes

  • Click the Selected dropdown

  • Choose Change Owner

  • Select the new owner

  • Optional - remove contacts from your lists

  • Confirm

For large lists:

  • Use the top checkbox to select the page

  • Use the blue bar to Select all items available


Change ownership from an individual contact

Timestamp: 9:09

Steps:

  • Open the contact record

  • Click Edit in the Details section

  • Update the Owner

  • Optional - remove from contact lists

  • Save


Use filter views for team-wide visibility

Timestamp: 9:41

Filter views are the primary way admins view and manage data across multiple users.

Key rule:

  • Use All Contacts, not My Contacts, when working across the account and want to see all contacts, irrespective of who they belong to.


View contacts owned by a specific user

Timestamp: 10:39

Steps:

  • Go to Contacts

  • Switch to All Contacts

  • Create or edit a filter view

  • Apply filters across All Users’ Contacts

  • Add filter Owner is [user]

  • Save

You can either:

  • Create individual filters per rep, or

  • Maintain one reusable filter and change the owner as needed

If filters are not applied across All Users’ Contacts, results will be incomplete.


Share filter views with the entire account

Timestamp: 12:50

Shared filter views give everyone access to the same lists.

Steps:

  • Edit the filter view

  • Apply it across all users

  • Enable Make filter view available to all users

  • Save

Common uses include shared views like Customers, Active Accounts, or Follow-Ups Due.


Manage tasks across your team

Timestamp: 14:25

Tasks follow the same visibility model as contacts and opportunities.


View and evaluate team-wide tasks

Timestamp: 15:02

Steps:

  • Go to CRM → Tasks

  • Use a view like All Open Tasks

  • Add Owner as a column

This helps managers quickly identify overdue tasks or stalled follow-up.


Assign and reassign tasks

Timestamp: 16:33

Steps:

  • Create a task

  • Set the Owner to another user

  • Save

Results:

  • The assigned user receives an email notification

  • The assigner can opt to receive an email when the task is completed

  • Tasks can be reassigned if priorities change


Manage opportunities and pipeline across the team

Timestamp: 18:14

Admins can oversee the full sales pipeline without switching accounts.


View opportunities across all users

Timestamp: 19:00

Steps:

  • Go to Opportunities

  • Switch from My Opportunities to All Opportunities

  • Use filter views to narrow by owner or stage

This provides a full team-level pipeline view.


Reassign opportunity ownership

Timestamp: 19:35

Admins can reassign opportunities directly from the table.

Steps:

  • Hover over the opportunity row

  • Double click the Owner field

  • Select a new owner

  • Save

This is commonly used when a rep is unavailable and a deal needs immediate attention.


Edit opportunity details inline

Timestamp: 20:31

From the Opportunities table, admins can edit:

  • Amount

  • Estimated close date

  • Summary

Press Enter to save changes.


Use Quick View to review deals without opening records

Timestamp: 21:10

Quick View allows managers to review context without interrupting reps.

From Quick View, you can:

  • Review recent activity

  • See associated contacts

  • Send emails or texts

  • Open contact quick views

This is useful for pipeline reviews and escalations.


Watch The Video Walkthrough

Transcript

0:01

hello everybody my name is Drew and

0:06

we're going to be doing part two of this

0:10

walkth through of the admin settings for

0:14

an admin that is in a multi-seat account

0:18

so if you're managing a team in

0:20

vibecloud whether it's from a marketing

0:22

standpoint or a CRM standpoint you're

0:25

going to find some useful stuff here now

0:29

part one this video we went through more

0:32

of the settings creating new users

0:35

adding those users to teams uh things

0:38

along those lines a little bit more of

0:40

the foundational setup of just kind of

0:43

prepping your account for this for

0:46

managing a team now we're going to talk

0:49

a bit more about how to say upload

0:52

contacts how to uh share templates how

0:57

to assign your contacts creating filter

1:00

views so that you can see what who owns

1:05

what um and also how you can share those

1:08

filter views with your team assigning

1:10

tasks managing your team's tasks and

1:14

also how to manage your teams

1:17

pipeline so we're going to be going

1:19

through all of that here um also just

1:23

note that this is going to cover filter

1:25

views are going to come up a lot here

1:28

and so if you you don't even know where

1:31

to start with them or if you get lost in

1:33

this please refer to our filter view

1:37

help center

1:39

content because we're going to be

1:41

assuming that you know just like the

1:42

fundamentals here and it's going to be

1:45

more of like guiding you beyond those

1:46

fundamentals for how to do specific

1:48

things with your filter

1:50

views so let's get started with this let

1:53

me share my screen

2:01

now I'm going to have these

2:03

two tabs open so I can kind of go back

2:07

and forth and just show you a little bit

2:08

from the manager standpoint versus from

2:11

the user

2:14

standpoint so first of all let's start

2:17

with sharing

2:19

templates um now there's a lot of

2:21

different kinds of templates in the

2:23

system from email templates to series

2:26

templates uh and text templates also

2:30

content this all basically works the

2:33

same regardless of what kind of stuff

2:35

you're working with so we're just going

2:36

to work with email templates because

2:39

they are so commonly used so we're going

2:40

to communication Tab and then to

2:44

templates right

2:46

here now let's say

2:49

I want to

2:52

share these templates right here with a

2:56

team of

2:57

users I could actually do that from here

3:00

just with this editing this

3:04

folder and then I'm going to click on

3:07

sharing and I'm going to just share it

3:09

with the marketing

3:12

team I hit

3:14

save now I can see shared with marketing

3:17

team right here in the email templates

3:21

table and heading over here to the user

3:25

view go to

3:27

communication templates in the shared

3:30

with me tab this is important users will

3:32

get tripped up on this occasionally they

3:34

need to check my templates versus shared

3:37

with me so anything that's shared will

3:40

be seen and shared with me and here we

3:42

go this user can now see these email

3:45

templates right

3:47

here I'm also able

3:51

to just copy a template over to a

3:55

user so let's see I the user 2 here so

4:00

let's check the box next to this email

4:02

template go up to where it says one

4:05

selected and we can see right here copy

4:10

selected so oops sorry not that right

4:13

there I'm going to copy to

4:15

users then copy to users select users

4:19

let's I'm going to choose this Drew Ross

4:23

2 hit

4:26

okay and I'm going to go back to my

4:28

templates

4:30

and we can see this copy here in my

4:33

templates so you've probably picked up

4:36

on here like wait a second I got some

4:38

stuff and shared with me some stuff in

4:39

my templates why is this well there are

4:42

two separate Concepts in the system of

4:44

sharing content versus copying it when I

4:49

share the content as the admin with my

4:52

subuser it's still basically my content

4:55

I have control over it I can make

4:57

changes to it and those changes will be

4:58

reflected immediately to those users now

5:01

the limitation is that that the users

5:03

can't make their own changes to it while

5:06

it's in that shared with me

5:09

State um

5:11

but they are able to go in and let's see

5:16

right here at the Top Copy email

5:17

template into personal templat so they

5:19

can make their own copy still retaining

5:22

their original shared

5:24

copy but in but in this personal one

5:27

they can make whatever changes they need

5:29

to it so again we can see right here now

5:31

under my templates this other template

5:34

that I just made a copy of into my

5:37

account is now mine and I can do

5:40

whatever I like with

5:42

it but as an admin if you copy to users

5:48

one of your templates you're basically

5:50

skipping that process it's not it's not

5:52

going to be shared with them it's just

5:53

going to be Zapped right over into their

5:55

account um and there's not going to be

5:57

any link there so to recap if it's if

6:01

you use that shared with me way of

6:05

sharing it's going to be linked and you

6:07

can make changes to your original

6:10

template and those changes will be

6:13

viewable and anytime you make a change

6:15

it'll be visible for your for your users

6:18

in there shared with me but if you copy

6:21

it there's no link it's a onetime action

6:23

it'll be plopped in their account and um

6:28

and but they can make changes to it but

6:29

any changes you make won't be

6:32

linked excellent so let's move along so

6:36

we're going to go into assigning

6:40

contacts so first of all we're going to

6:43

go over to contacts in that left

6:48

sidebar now there are a few ways that

6:51

you

6:52

can manage who owns what contacts so

6:57

first of all when you're importing Maybe

6:59

you're importing a list and you know

7:02

that all of these contacts are going to

7:04

belong to a particular person on your

7:07

team you can make that a onef swoop kind

7:12

of a process by going to

7:15

import contact lists and you'll see

7:18

right here this drop down where you can

7:21

import on behalf of somebody on your

7:24

team so you could select that other

7:27

person and

7:30

upload it and it will go to that

7:34

user you're

7:37

also over here in in

7:40

contacts let's just jump over to my

7:42

contacts right here you

7:46

can select using these little check

7:48

boxes right here whoever you

7:51

need and where it says however many

7:54

selected in this drop down right here

7:57

you can change owner

7:59

choose who you want it to go to and as

8:02

you can see in this little check box

8:03

here you can remove these people from

8:05

your contact lists if you so choose that

8:08

is

8:09

optional so that's how you can do it in

8:12

Mass note here too that often when

8:15

you're doing this you're going to be

8:16

doing it to like a lot of contacts and

8:20

so you can select all by hitting this

8:21

little check box up here at the top that

8:25

will select everybody on the

8:27

page and then this Blue Bar will pop up

8:31

above the table giving you the option to

8:34

select all items

8:36

available you can also see in this

8:39

dropdown it'll say how many are selected

8:42

right here and just above that drop down

8:44

you'll see that the total number of

8:45

entries are in whatever table is you're

8:48

looking at so you can kind of conf you

8:50

can confirm there we see that 10 are

8:52

selected but we really need 42 I'll hit

8:55

click here to select all

8:56

42 and now we can see here all 4 42 are

9:00

selected change owner and we can move

9:03

this along to whoever we

9:06

need you're also able to when you when

9:09

we go into a contact

9:12

record you'll see the owner here under

9:15

the details

9:17

table and you can hit this edit

9:21

button to open this modal to edit your

9:25

contact and right here under

9:28

owner you can choose somebody else and

9:31

again like before you can have it

9:33

removed from your contact

9:35

lists upon transfer if you so

9:41

choose now let's move to filter

9:45

views so we're going to go back to our

9:50

contacts now something that admins of a

9:54

multi-seat account often need to do is

9:58

look

10:00

at contacts that belong to various

10:03

different

10:05

users and filter views are an extremely

10:07

useful way of doing this so anytime

10:10

you're looking at a data table in your

10:12

account you'll see a drop down in the

10:14

upper left corner that's going to be

10:16

telling you what you're looking at so in

10:17

this case I'm looking at my contacts so

10:21

these are going to be obviously all the

10:23

contacts that belong to me I click on

10:26

this I can choose all contacts so it's

10:28

going to be everybody across my entire

10:32

account regardless of

10:35

user but you might need to just pull up

10:39

everybody that belongs to a particular

10:41

user so that that's where a filter view

10:43

is going to come in I've got one that

10:45

was already made here so we can click on

10:48

this owner is second user which is one

10:52

of the users in my account here and you

10:55

can also see just under that filter view

10:57

what the filters are that are appli here

10:59

you can see owner is Drew Ross to the

11:03

second user so this has pulled up

11:06

everybody that matches that particular

11:11

criteria now something that some users

11:14

find useful when doing something like

11:16

this is like you could make a filter

11:18

view for each of your various users in

11:20

your

11:22

account but what you could also do is

11:25

just make a filter view that you just

11:27

edit on an ongoing basis for whoever you

11:29

want to pull up so I'm going to do that

11:31

right here for I can hit edit

11:33

filter and I could just say uh you

11:36

know call it just maybe a

11:44

specific we're getting really creative

11:46

here specific rep filter let's just go

11:48

with that U now one thing that's

11:50

important here by the way is you'll need

11:53

to apply the filters

11:56

across all users contacts

12:00

otherwise you could say my contacts and

12:03

that would that's not going to be any

12:04

good for looking at other the contacts

12:06

that belong to other users but that is

12:08

the default setting here so you're going

12:10

to always need to change it to all users

12:12

contacts when you're doing

12:14

this and then under the filters here

12:18

owner

12:20

is and we choose the owner here so I

12:23

could just switch this over to Drew Ross

12:25

3 hit save and now we can see all the

12:28

users that belong or all the contacts

12:30

that belong to that other user and just

12:33

to demonstrate it more quickly you

12:35

really can move back and forth through

12:36

these pretty quickly so boom choose a

12:39

different user if I want to toggle back

12:41

and forth and we can just do it like

12:47

that now another thing that you might

12:50

find yourself needing to do is creating

12:53

a filter view that is visible to

12:57

everybody on your team

13:00

uh for instance it might be everybody

13:03

needs to see like uh they need to be

13:04

able to pull up who all the the

13:06

customers are so we are going to jump

13:09

over here to a

13:11

customers filter view now in this demo

13:14

account

13:15

we've created a custom field for contact

13:19

type is

13:21

customer and so that's what this is

13:23

filtering for so we got

13:25

contact is customer now let's take a

13:28

look at this uh filter

13:30

view so we got this applied across all

13:35

users and we've used this here make

13:38

filter view available to all

13:41

users so what that means that this

13:43

filter view is now displaying in all

13:46

user

13:47

accounts so we're going to jump over to

13:50

the uh member user account in this

13:56

window and we're going to click over to

13:58

contacts

14:00

and here we go this filter view is now

14:02

visible in my account right here now um

14:07

this

14:08

particular user here doesn't have any

14:11

contacts that match the criteria but as

14:14

you can see the filter view is uh is

14:17

visible to

14:22

them all

14:25

right now um let's take a look at

14:30

tasks we're going to jump over to the

14:33

CRM portion of the system through that

14:36

left

14:38

navigation and there's going to be a lot

14:40

of

14:43

similar Concepts here this is again

14:46

going to be very filter

14:48

view

14:50

driven anything that says my like my

14:53

open tasks my completed tasks these are

14:56

going to apply to you today's tasks also

14:59

by default applies to you but when we

15:02

look over here at like at all open tasks

15:05

for instance we are able to

15:08

see all the tasks that across the team

15:11

that are

15:14

open and let's take a look here at this

15:18

team

15:19

tasks click into the edit

15:22

filter this is going to just display

15:25

everything that this is basically

15:27

today's tasks except ccept it's um

15:31

applying across the entire team so

15:33

something like this is going to be very

15:35

useful for getting a sense of what tasks

15:40

are currently due across your team so we

15:45

can see the due date right here and here

15:48

let's add under

15:53

columns under owner

15:57

task so we can see the different owners

16:00

right here of these various

16:03

tasks and based on today today's uh is

16:08

February 11th I can see right here that

16:10

we've got a task that is quite a deal

16:15

quite a bit overdue so this would be

16:17

this would prompt me to reach out to

16:20

that rep and see if there's a reason why

16:24

that rep is holding off on calling uh

16:27

geralt here

16:30

as an

16:33

example another thing that is quite

16:35

useful is assigning tasks so when you're

16:38

creating a

16:44

task we can give it a different

16:50

owner and what that means is that this

16:53

task will be assigned to the to this

16:56

subuser within my account they'll also

16:59

receive an email saying hey you know

17:02

this P this other person on your team

17:03

has assigned you a task so you don't

17:06

even have to worry about pinging them

17:08

letting them know they they'll receive

17:09

an email notification and of course

17:11

they'll see it in their

17:13

CRM but as you can see the system here

17:16

picked up on the fact that this selected

17:17

owner is not me I want to receive an

17:20

email when this task is completed so

17:23

this is extremely useful in saving

17:26

people from having to notify them of

17:27

stuff that they might not they really

17:29

shouldn't have to notify each other

17:31

about so when this subuser completes

17:34

this task I'll get an email telling me

17:36

that hey this that really important task

17:38

that you went out of your way to assign

17:39

to somebody uh it's been

17:45

completed and of course also like let's

17:48

say here you know this uh particular

17:50

person is slacking on completing this

17:53

task maybe they're on vacation or

17:55

something I'm also able to

17:59

reassign this to somebody else if if I

18:01

need to um from from right here so I

18:05

could reassign that and um let somebody

18:09

else take care of

18:14

it lastly we are going to go through

18:19

opportunities now there's not a great

18:23

deal here that's unique from some of

18:25

these other systems that we've looked at

18:27

like um like your contacts and your

18:30

tasks again this is very uh filter view

18:34

driven but there are a couple of things

18:36

that are worth looking at

18:38

here like again we got my opportunities

18:41

versus all

18:42

opportunities and it's quite useful as

18:45

an admin to be able to just like get

18:47

that that big company or just like

18:49

team-wide overview of what's all

18:52

happening across these um

18:55

different uh across the different team

18:57

members

19:00

and again of course you can create a

19:02

like a like a rep specific filter filter

19:06

so that in this case we're looking at

19:09

all the opportunities that match a

19:11

particular rep we look at the filter

19:13

view we'll see that you set this up just

19:16

like You' set up the other

19:17

ones where you apply the filter across

19:20

all users and you can set a filter for

19:23

owner is whichever team member you so

19:27

choose

19:29

now another thing too that uh that that

19:32

sales managers find really useful here

19:35

is the fact that you can reassign these

19:40

opportunities directly from this

19:43

page so for instance again like let's

19:46

say somebody's on vacation and we really

19:49

need to get this deal across the Finish

19:52

Line what you can do so you see how I'm

19:55

hovering over this row here in the in

19:58

this opportunity card and it kind of

20:04

like when I hover over it get those

20:05

underscored lines now if I double click

20:09

here I'm able to change the owner just

20:12

from this page so choose owner I'm gonna

20:17

reassign this to yeah maybe I'm going to

20:19

reassign to myself I close the deal here

20:22

I'd hit okay and now this is my

20:28

opportunity

20:29

and uh and I can I can close it from

20:31

here other items here or other rows that

20:36

you see in your opportunities can be

20:40

edited like this like the

20:42

amount I

20:45

can change the amount there I can change

20:47

the estimated close date I can add a new

20:53

summary and you can take care of all of

20:56

this right there hitting the enter

20:58

button will often be what submits those

21:01

changes that you've made to that

21:02

opportunity from that

21:06

page now another thing too that I think

21:10

is really useful is as a sales manager

21:14

you might not have um all of the latest

21:18

information on on a given deal and it

21:21

might not be you know you might want to

21:23

just get up to speed on something

21:26

without having to bug one of your sales

21:30

reps and so from this opportunities page

21:34

you see this blue button in the upper

21:36

right corner when you click on that you

21:38

can quick view your opportunity

21:42

here and from here we can just get a

21:44

nice little quick view of what's going

21:46

on with this opportunity I can choose

21:49

the I can click here for for the latest

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activity I'll see the calls that were

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logged the emails that were sent from

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here I can take a look at the contacts

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same sort of deal we got the quick view

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can edit it email text all from this

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page here can hit a quick view just to

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zoom in on just that one particular

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contact in the opportunity so you can

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get a lot done just from the

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opportunities page here obviously the

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tasks list is going to be a main a main

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spot for for information for you uh here

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as well

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and all right so I'm going to stop the

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sharing here and um yeah so I hope that

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this has been helpful just giving you

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some really helpful pointers into how to

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get started in this account when you're

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managing multiple people um you just to

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recap we talked about how to share

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templates how to share content assigning

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contacts with to people how to use

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filter View use for things like tasks

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contacts opportunities all that stuff so

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I definitely encourage you to experiment

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with this stuff get familiar with it and

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of course if you have nuanced questions

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about your particular workflows and all

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that stuff definitely reach out to us

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we're here to help uh and and we would

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love the opportunity to do so so I hope

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this has been helpful thank you so

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much e

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