# Update Contact Field

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In order to **PUBLISH** workflows, you will need to establish a workflow trigger and a workflow action. Without both, you will only be able to save the workflow, not publish it.
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This action updates a field in the contact record.

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## Add Fields

Choose the contact field you will like to update and type in the new info.

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