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 validate with <Enter> or by clicking
  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 the preferences window, you must those contacts in a vCard file.

Sharing

address

books

BlueMind allows you to share your address books with other users.

To share an address book:

• Go to user preferences > Contacts > click the "Share" button to open the dialog box for the address book you want to share:
  
• Select the rights you want to grant the user or group (See Managing shares).
• Click "Validate" to apply the changes and close the dialog box.

Subscribing to an address book

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:

You can also subscribe later via the Subscriptions tab in settings (see next chapter).

Subscriptions

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

You can choose whether to subscribe to an address book or not, except for the two preset non-editable address books which are:

• Contacts: your default personal address book.
• Users: the domain users directory.

Only address books you are subscribed to will appear in the BlueMind Contacts application.

To add a subscription to an address book:

• Start typing the name of the address book in the text box above the subscriptions list:
  
• 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.
  
• Click "Save" to apply changes.