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description: Use Asset Contact Participant records to relate every asset in your org—a vehicle, a part, or an accessory—to relevant Contact records. You can relate an asset to multiple stakeholders and track the contacts related to each asset. For example, you can track the sales relation manager of the dealership branch where the asset is stocked. You can also track the support manager or the driver of a vehicle. One asset can have multiple contact participants.
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# Create Asset Contact Participants in Automotive Cloud

Use Asset Contact Participant records to relate every asset in your org—a vehicle, a part, or an accessory—to relevant Contact records. You can relate an asset to multiple stakeholders and track the contacts related to each asset. For example, you can track the sales relation manager of the dealership branch where the asset is stocked. You can also track the support manager or the driver of a vehicle. One asset can have multiple contact participants.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d141372e63 ">To create asset contact participants:</td>

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Admins can add picklist values for the Role field on the Asset Contact Participant object in Object Manager. Automotive Cloud comes with predefined values.

1. From the App Launcher, find and select **Asset Contact Participants**.
    
    You can also find the list of all asset contact relationships related to a Contact on the Related tab of a Contact record.
2. Click **New**.
3. Search for and select a contact.
4. Enter a name for the participant.
5. For Role, select the type of contact in relation to the asset, such as Sales Relation Manager, Support Manager, or Primary Driver.
6. Search for and select an asset.
7. If the asset is a vehicle, search for and select a Vehicle record.
8. Select the status as **Active**.
9. Select an effective start date and effective end date for the association between the asset and the contact.
10. For Usage Type, select **Automotive**.
11. Save your changes.

![An asset contact participant record.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-ind-automotive-264-0-0-production-enus/55098325-b838-4fed-9e79-8cfa2d7b33a3/automotive/images/auto_stakeholder_asset_contact_partcipant.png)

You can create relationship cards to capture key information about asset contact participants and add the cards on the Vehicle record page layout to get information in context. Or, use the Actionable Relationship Center graph to visualize related stakeholders.

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Help_: Configure Actionable Relationship Center Graphs](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.auto_configure_arc.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Help users understand the relationship between people and vehicles with Actionable Relationship Center (ARC) graphs. Build custom ARC graphs to connect objects that show related information such as households, visits and vehicles associated to an account. Add the ARC Relationship Graph component to Vehicle or Account pages to let your users engage with the records. Customize card names, display fields, and object and record actions so your users can easily navigate and interact with records during customer engagements.")
- [_Salesforce Help_: Configure Relationship Cards for Automotive Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.auto_set_up_relationship_cards_parent.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use Relationship Cards to show key information about stakeholders related to a vehicle’s lifecycle. After identifying the information that your users refer to, use the card setup flow to configure the relationship cards, and then add the cards to the desired page layouts.")