Display

•  : the first column, under the "New contact" button, shows the list of address books you have access to: your default address books, your personal address books as well as those shared with you and you are subscribed to;

• : the second column shows the list of contacts in the address book selected in the first column.

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  The vertical alphabet on the left of the area allows you to navigate more quickly in your contacts. The letters with contacts are highlighted in black and bold for better visibility.

• : the third column, the main display area, shows . Shows the contact card for the user selected in the second column (area B).
•  : search box.

Editing contacts

To edit a contact, go to the contact's card by first selecting the address book it belongs to, or using the search box at the top of the page.

If you don't have editing rights, the information will simply be displayed and the action buttons grayed out. If you do have editing rights, you will be able to edit the card's contents:

The "Add" button allows you to add other types of information from those available by default: birthday, assistant, instant messaging address, etc.

Adding tags to a contact

See Tags 

Distribution lists

Creating and editing distribution lists

To create a distribution list, click the drop-down arrow in the "New contact" button and choose "New distribution list":

In the editing page, first enter a title then add the members contacts you want to include in the distribution list through in the "Add a membermembers" fieldbox.

Autocomplete searches all address books for matching contacts through all address books en indiquant sous le nom trouvé le carnet duquel ce contact provient :

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. The address book the contact belongs to is shown under the contact's name:

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Whether a matching name is found or not, a "Create new member" button is displayed. It opens a "Create a new contact" Que le nom soit trouvé ou non, the "Create this contact" button opens a form which allows you to enter a name and an email address:

The new contact is then added to the distribution list as well as the current address book.

Inclusions de listes

Une liste de distribution peut être incluse dans une liste de distribution : lorsque l'utilisateur souhaitera écrire à la liste "mère", toutes les adresses seront ajoutées dans le message, celles directement comprises dans la liste ainsi que celles de la liste incluse :

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Listes et carnets partagés

Il est possible d'inclure dans une liste de distribution des contacts et listes issus de carnets partagés par d'autres utilisateurs (droit de lecture minimum).

Afin de s'assurer que ces contacts sont bien à jour dans une liste de distribution, un bouton « Valider » permet de mettre à jour l'ensemble de la liste. Ainsi en cas de modification dans le carnet d'origine, par son propriétaire ou un ayant droit, l'utilisateur s'assure d'avoir la dernière version :

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Including distribution lists

A distribution list can be included within another distribution list: when you want to write to the "parent" list, all addresses will be added as recipients – those belonging to the parent list and those belonging to the child list:

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Lists and shared address books

You can include contacts and lists from other users' shared address books in distribution lists (provided you have minimum read privileges). 

To make sure that the contacts in a distribution list are up to date, click the "Validate" button to update the whole list. This ensures that you have the latest version if changes have been made the source address books by their owner or right holders.  

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Importing and exporting contacts

To import or export an address book as a vCard file, click the gears button above the contacts list in the address book:

When exporting, all contacts in the address book are exported to a single file which opens automatically upon download.

When importing, all contacts in the file are added to the address book. BlueMind does not detect duplicates. All contacts will be added, including those already in the address book.