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Your AI assistant can read this documentation directly, so it answers from the current content instead of guessing. Add one of the servers below to your client — they use the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Each one covers a different body of content, so add the one you need.
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External Companies and Contacts
- Article
- Tue May 26 2026
- 1 minutes to read
- 2 contributors
The Hornbill Platform provides the ability for you to define external companies and contacts. At the platform level, this is used primarily to enable guest logins and access controls to external facing portals. Beyond that, applications may extend this information for application-specific functionality, for example, providing support to external customers (as opposed to internal employees)
The data model for Companies and Contacts is a simple one to many relationship between Companies, where, a Contact must be associated with a Company, and a Company can have many Contacts associated with it.
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Please keep in mind that an External Company in this context does not in any way relate to the Company OU type that may be defined in your Internal Groups and Teams Structure
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