{"id":590,"date":"2020-09-04T14:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/?p=590"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T20:19:52","slug":"what-is-an-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/concept\/what-is-an-entity\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an Entity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Concept #4<\/h6>\n<h5>Entities<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Entities in RB are individuals, businesses, places, or discrete parts of your company such as revenue centers or branch offices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Entity types in RB<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firms:<\/strong> Your direct clients \u2014 usually law firms \u2014 and other businesses you provide services to, such as other court reporting firms, vendors, insurance companies, corporate clients, and courts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contacts:<\/strong> People who work for firms you do business with, such as attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, legal assistants, claim adjusters, and court clerks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Resources:<\/strong> Mainly people who provide your business with a service, such as reporters, videographers, interpreters, scopists, and account executives. But it can also be entities like other agencies that cover jobs for you or a conference room where depos take place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Locations:<\/strong> Places where jobs occur that are not your clients\u2019 offices, such as court rooms, hospitals, schools, doctors\u2019 offices, or private residences.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Business Units:<\/strong> Your company\u2019s revenue centers or any\u00a0entity in your business that you track separately, such as\u00a0branch offices, other companies you own, affiliates, and profit-sharing\u00a0operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can maintain deep profiles of entities in RB including contact information, financial information, personal information and preferences, detailed notes, and related files. When you add an entity to a case, job, or invoice in RB, all of their information is connected and automatically fills in the related fields with no need to re-key anything.<\/p>\n<h4>Related RB concepts<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Job:<\/strong> Usually the reporting of a deposition but can also be any kind of service you provide with your reporters or other resources, such as realtime, videoconferencing, or read &amp; sign. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/concept\/jobs-concept\/\">More &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entities in RB are individuals, businesses, places, or discrete\u00a0parts of your company, such as revenue centers or branch offices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/concept\/what-is-an-entity\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,226],"tags":[86,84,228,63,83,85,43],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept","category-lesson","tag-business-unit","tag-contact","tag-emailed-lesson","tag-entity","tag-firm","tag-location","tag-resource"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}