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Of course, it's a lot easier to update - <application>Evolution</application> than it is to change an - actual paper book. <application>Evolution</application> also - allows easy synchronization with hand-held and remote devices. - Since <application>Evolution</application> supports most major - network protocols, including <glossterm>LDAP</glossterm>, it can - fit into almost any existing network. - </para> - <para> - Another advantage of the <application>Evolution</application> - address book is its integration with the rest of the - application. That means that when you look for someone's - address, you can also see a history of appointments with that - person. Or, you can get an e-mail with contact information in - it and create a new address card on the spot. In addition, - searches and folders and all work in the same way they do in the - other components, so you don't have to learn another system for - similar tasks. - </para> - <para> - This chapter will cover using the - <application>Evolution</application> contact manager to organize - any amount of contact information, share addresses over a - network, and several ways to save time with everyday tasks. To - learn about configuring the contact manager, see <xref - linkend="config-prefs-contact">. - </para> - </abstract> - <sect1 id="usage-contact-basic"> - <title>Getting Started With the Contact Manager</title> - - <para> - To open up your address book, click on - <guibutton>Contacts</guibutton> in the shortcut bar. The - contact manager is illustrated in <xref - linkend="usage-contact-fig">. By default, the contact manager - shows all your cards in alphabetical order, in a - <glossterm>minicard</glossterm> format. You can select other - views from the <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu, and adjust the - width of the colums by clicking and dragging the grey column - dividers. - </para> - - - <figure id="usage-contact-fig"> - <title>Evolution Contact Manager</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Manager Window</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/contact" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - - <para> - The toolbar for the address book is quite simple: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - Press <guibutton>New</guibutton> for a new contact. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guibutton>Find</guibutton> brings up an in-depth search window. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - Press <guibutton>Print</guibutton> to print one or more cards. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> deletes a selected card. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - <para> - The last feature is <guilabel>Quick Search</guilabel>; to use - it, just type in the name of the person you're looking for and - hit <keycap>Enter</keycap>. - <application>Evolution</application> will search through all - the cards to find one that matches. - </para> - <para> - If there are no matches, the card display will be blank. To - display <emphasis>all</emphasis> of your contacts, you can - leave the <guilabel>Quick Search</guilabel> field blank, and - press enter. - </para> - <para> - The rest of the contact manager is taken up by the display of - your cards. You can view it as a table or as a list of - cards— switch between them in the <guimenu>View</guimenu> - menu — and move through them alphabetically alphanumeric - buttons and the scrollbar at the right of the window. - </para> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="usage-contact-cards"> - <title>Destroy, Create, or Change Cards</title> - - <para> - To delete a card, click on it once to select it, then press the - <guibutton>Delete Card</guibutton> button. If you have - multiple cards selected, you'll delete mutliple cards. - </para> - <para> - Adding or changing cards is slightly more complicated. Any - time you add information to the contact manager, whether it's - an old card you're editing or a new card you're just adding to - your address book, you'll use the contact editor. To change a - card that already exists, just double click it to open the - contact editor window with all the current information already - filled in. If you want to create a new one, clicking the - <guibutton>New Card</guibutton> button will open up that same - window, but with empty fields instead of full ones. Either - way, it's the same tool for quite similar tasks, and you'll - find that it's pretty flexible and can store quite a lot more - than you'd think would fit onto a file card. - </para> - - <para> - The contact editor window has two tabs, - <guilabel>General</guilabel>, for basic contact information, - and <guilabel>Details</guilabel>, for a more specific - description of the person. In addition, it contains a full - menu bar, which is still evolving rapidly. <!-- FIXME --> - </para> - - <figure id="usage-contact-editor-fig"> - <title>Evolution Contact Editor</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Editor</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/contact-new" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - - <para> The <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab contains no less - than seven sections, each with an icon: a face, for name and - company; a telephone for phone numbers; an envelope for email - address; a house for postal address; a file folder for - contacts, and a briefcase for categories. You can guess what - sort of information belongs in fields like <guilabel>Job - Title</guilabel> and <guilabel>Web page address</guilabel>, - but there are several parts of the window that are a little - more interesting. - </para> - <para> - <guilabel>Categories</guilabel> feature, which is discussed in - <xref linkend="usage-contact-organize">, there are a few - things you'll want to know about: the first of these is the - <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel> button. - </para> - <para> - You can enter a name into the <guibutton>Full Name</guibutton> - field, or you can click the button to bring up a small dialog - box with a few text boxes: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Title: </guilabel></term> - <listitem> <para> - Enter an honorific or select one from the menu. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>First: </guilabel></term> - <listitem> <para>The person's first, or given, name. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Middle: </guilabel></term> - <listitem> <para> - The middle name or initial, if any, goes here. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Last: </guilabel></term> - <listitem> <para> - The last name (the surname, or family name), belongs here. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Suffix: </guilabel></term> - <listitem> <para> - Suffixes such as "Jr." or "III" can go here. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - - <para> - The <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel> field has one more trick - up its sleeve: it interacts with the <guilabel>File - As</guilabel> box to help you organize your contacts. To - see how it works, type a name in the <guilabel>Full - Name</guilabel> field: <userinput>Eva Lucianne - Tester</userinput>. You'll notice that the - <guilabel>File As</guilabel> field also fills up, but in - reverse: <computeroutput>Tester, - Lucianne</computeroutput>. You can pick - <computeroutput>Eva Tester</computeroutput> from the - drop-down, or type in your own, such as - <userinput>Lucianne Tester, Eva</userinput>. I suggest that - you don't enter something entirely different from the - actual name, since you might forget that you've filed - Eva's information under "F" for "Fictitious Helix Code - Employees" </para> - - <para> - The other feature I want to mention involves the little - squares next to several of the fields. Click on them and - you'll get a menu of different labels; for the fields in the - telephone section, it's a long list involving things like - <guilabel>Home</guilabel>, <guilabel>Home 2</guilabel>, - <guilabel>Other Fax</guilabel>, and - <guilabel>Pager</guilabel>. Select from among them to - determine which four telephone numbers to display at any given - time. Of course, these connected times mean that people often - have more than four telephone numbers. You can display only - four in the editor, but <application>Evolution</application> - can remember them all for you. When you click the little - square button for the list of labels, any that you've already - filled in will be marked. </para> - - <!-- FIXME: do this whole thing right before release 0.4! FIXME. - <variablelist> - <listitem> - <term> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> <para> - <guilabel>Name:</guilabel> Enter the person's name here - </para></listitem> - <listitem> <para> - - </para></listitem> - <listitem> <para> - <guilabel>Business:</guilabel> - </para></listitem> - - <listitem> <para> - <guilabel>Job Title:</guilabel> - </para></listitem> - - <listitem> <para> - <guilabel>Home:</guilabel> - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - - --> - - -<!--- ############# This section isn't implemented yet either: - <sect2> - <title></title> - <para> - <tip> - <title>Contact Shortcuts</title> - <para> - You can add cards from within an email message or calendar - appointment. While looking at an email, right-click on - any email address or message, and choose - <guimenuitem>Create Card for this Address</guimenuitem> or - <guimenuitem>Create Card for this Sender</guimenuitem> - from the menu. While looking at a calendar appointment, - right-click any email address, and choose - <guimenuitem>Create Card for this Address</guimenuitem>. - (NOTE that feature may change! unimplemented!) - </para> - </tip> - </para> - <para> - You can move cards around just as you would move email - messages: dragging and dropping works, as does right-clicking - and choosing <guimenuitem>Move</guimenuitem> from the menu - that appears. - </para> - </sect2> -############### SHORTCUT SECTION COMMENTED OUT FOR NOW --> - - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="usage-contact-organize"> - <title>Organizing your Contact Manager</title> - <para> - Organizing your contact manager is a lot like organizing your - mail. You can have folders and searches the same way you can - with mail, but the contact manager does not allow vFolders. It - does, however, allow each card to fall under several - categories, and allow you to create your own categories. - Categories are discussed <xref - linkend="usage-contact-organize-group-category">. - </para> - -<!-- - <para> - Another useful UNIMPLEMENTED - <application>Evolution</application> feature is its ability to - recognize when people live or work together. If several people - in your contact manager share an address, and you change the - address for one of them, <application>Evolution</application> - will ask you if you wish to change the address for all of them, - or just for one. - </para> ---> - - <sect2 id="usage-contact-organize-group"> - <title>Groups of contacts</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> offers two ways for you - to organize your cards. The first way is to use folders; - this works the same way that mail folders do. For more - flexibility, you can also mark contacts as members of - different categories. - </para> - - <sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-folder"> - <title>Grouping with Folders</title> - <para> - The simplest way to group address cards is to use folders. - By default, cards start in the - <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> folder. If you've read <xref - linkend="usage-mainwindow"> then you already know that you - can create a new folder by selecting - <menuchoice> - <guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice> - and that you can put new folders anywhere you like. Note - that each card must be in one and only one folder, unless - you want to have duplicate cards. - </para> - <para> - To put a card into a folder, just drag it there from the - folder view. Remember that contact cards can only go in - contact folders, just like mail can only go in mail folders, - and calendars in calendar folders. - </para> - </sect3> - - <sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-category"> - <title>Grouping with Categories</title> - <para> - The other way to group cards is to mark them as belonging - to different categories. The difference between folders - and categories is that folders contain cards, but category - membership is a property of each card. That means that you - can mark a card as being in several categories or no - category at all. For example, I put my friend Matthew's - card in the "Business" category, because he works with me, - the "Friends" category, because he's also my friend, and - the "Frequent" category, because I call him all the time - and can never remember his phone number. - </para> - <para> - To mark a card as belonging to a category, click the - <guibutton>Categories</guibutton> button at the lower - right. A dialog box will pop up with check-boxes for - different categories in it. You can select as many or as - few categories as you like. - </para> - <para> - Then, you can refer to all the cards in that category by: - </para> - <para> - If the master list of categories don't suit you, you can - add your own. Just enter the new category's name in the - text box, then click <guibutton>Categories</guibutton> and - choose <guilabel>Add to Master List</guilabel> in the - window that appears. - </para> - - <tip id="usage-contact-categories-multiple"> - <title>Another way to use Categories</title> - <para> - You can categorize contacts by typing the category - names into the <guilabel>Categories</guilabel> - field. You can also create new categories that way: - just type in a category name, and it counts as a - category. - </para> - </tip> - </sect3> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="usage-contact-sharing"> - <title>Sharing your Cards (and keeping them to yourself)</title> - <para> - Cards can be shared over a network. This is the sort of - feature you'll want to use if your company has a list of - vendors and clients that needs constant updating. If you - also share your calendars, people can avoid duplicating - work and keep up to date on developments within their - workgroup or across the entire company. - </para> - - <example id="usage-contact-sharing-ex"> - <title>Sharing Address Cards and Calendar Data</title> - <para> - Ray wants to schedule a meeting with Company X, so he - checks the network for the Company X address card so he - knows whom to call there. Since his company also shares - calendars, he then learns that his co-worker Deanna has - already scheduled a meeting with Company X next Thursday. - He can either go to the meeting himself or ask Deanna to - discuss his concerns for him. Either way, he avoids - scheduling an extra meeting with Company X. - </para> - </example> - <para> - Of course, you don't want to share all of your cards— why - overload the network with a list of babysitters, or tell - everyone in the office you're talking to new job prospects? - <application>Evolution</application> lets you decide which - folders you want to make accessible to others. - </para> - <para> - To begin sharing a folder of address cards, wait until - <application>Evolution</application> supports this - feature. <!-- FIXME --> - </para> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="usage-contact-automate"> - <title>Extra Contact Manager Tools</title> - <para> - The most obvious contact manager tool is that it works with the - mailer and the calendar to help you add new address cards - quickly. However, it can also manage mailing lists and help - you find directions between the locations of any two contacts. - </para> - - <sect2 id="contact-automation-basic"> - <title>Send me a card: Adding New Cards Quickly</title> - <para> - As noted before, when you get information about a person in - the mail or in a calendar entry, you can add it to an address - card. To do so, right click on any email address or email - message, and select <guimenuitem>Add Address - Card</guimenuitem> from the menu that appears. Of course, - <application> Evolution</application> also adds cards from a - hand-held device during HotSync operation. For more - information about that, see <xref linkend="usage-sync">. - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="contact-automation-lists"> - <title>Managing a Mailing list</title> - <para> - You already know that when you are writing an email, you can - address it to one or more people, and that - <application>Evolution</application> will fill in addresses - from your contact manager's address cards if you let it. In - addition to that, you can send email to everyone in a - particular group. - </para> - <!-- FIXME this feature not yet implemented --> - <para> - Future versions of <application>Evolution</application> will - allow you to you export a group of cards to a spreadsheet, - database, or word processor so you can print address labels - or prepare large postal mailings. - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="usage-contact-automation-extra"> - <title>Map It! and other extra features</title> - <para> - Need a map or directions? Click - <guibutton>MapIt</guibutton> from within the contact - manager, and <application>Evolution</application> will - map the address for you online. - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> -</chapter> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |