User address books

By default, you have two address books:

• "My Contacts" (or Contacts): personal address book
• "Collected contacts": automatically pools together the addresses of message recipients not present in the directory:

You cannot modify or delete default address books, but you are free to use them and their contents as you wish.

Creating and modifying address books

To create a new address book:

• Enter a label (name) for it.
• Optional: choose a vCard file to import contacts into this address book.
• Click "Add".

To modify an address book:

• Click the address book's name to open the text box:
  
• Enter the new name and type <Enter> or by click to confirm.
  To cancel typing, press <Esc> or click .

To delete an address book:

• Click at the end of the row.
• Confirm delete.

Importing contacts

To import contacts into an address book via preferences, you need to have the contacts you want to import in a vCard file.

Exporting address books

To export contacts from an address book, you must go to the Contacts application.
To find out more, go to: Les contacts - Importer et exporter

Sharing address books

BlueMind allows you to share personal address books with users.

To share an address book, go to user preferences > Contacts > "Sharings" tab:

1. Select the address book you want to share.
   Users can share:
   • their personal address books: Contacts (aka "My Contacts"), Collected Contacts and address books they have created.
   • address books they have delegated rights on: they were given the permission "Can update contacts from this address book and manage sharing"
2. If you want to share the address book with all users in the domain, check the box "Allow public share" and select the type of rights you want to grant users.
3. Recommended choice:  If you prefer to grant rights individually to specific users or a group, look for them by typing their name in the box and select the rights you want to grant them.
4. Once all rights are granted as desired, click "Save" to confirm.

Subscriptions

In user preferences

You can see your own address books as well as those shared with you in the Synchronization tab in settings.

The "Synchronization" button allows you to set different synchronization settings with client software (web application, thick clients or mobile devices) for each address book.

When synchronization is enabled, the data is downloaded into the software client. As a result:

To add an address book:

• Start typing the name of the address book in the text box:
  
• As you type, autocomplete suggests address books your are not subscribed to yet: your own address books and those that other users have shared with you (see above).
• Choose from the list of suggestions and press <Enter> or click the name.
• Disabled synchronization is desired.
• Click "Save" to apply changes.

In the information email message

When a user shares an address book with you, you are notified via an automatic email message. This message allows you to subscribe to this address book directly: