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diff --git a/help/C/link-contacts.page b/help/C/link-contacts.page index 06184ac66..6a23cd142 100644 --- a/help/C/link-contacts.page +++ b/help/C/link-contacts.page @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ <name>Milo Casagrande</name> <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email> </credit> + <credit type="editor"> + <name>Shobha Tyagi</name> + <email>tyagishobha@gmail.com</email> + </credit> <license> <p> Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0 @@ -22,18 +26,18 @@ </license> </info> - <title>Combine and separate contacts</title> + <title>Link and unlink contacts</title> <p> - If one, or more, of your contacts has multiple accounts with different - messaging services, you can combine these contacts into a single one. + If one or more of your contacts has multiple accounts with different + messaging services, you can combine these accounts into a single contact. </p> <p> The resulting contact is called a <em>meta-contact</em>: a contact composed from different single contacts. </p> <p> - If you have a Jane Smith contact that is using three different messaging - services like: + Suppose you have a contact called Jane Smith who is using three different + messaging services like: </p> <list> <item> @@ -55,52 +59,71 @@ <p> You can combine these contacts into a single Jane Smith one. </p> - <section id="linking"> - <title>Combining contacts</title> + <title>Link contacts</title> + <p> + The way you can link your contacts is as follows: + </p> <steps> <item> <p> - From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, right-click one of the contact - that has different accounts, and select - <gui style="menuitem">Link Contacts...</gui>. + Press the tick button to select entries you want to link. This will enable + <em>selection mode</em> and you can see a checkbox for each entry. </p> </item> <item> <p> - From the left pane in the <gui>Link Contacts</gui> window, - select the contacts you want to combine. + Tick the checkboxes that correspond to the <app>Contacts</app> entries which + belong to the same contact. </p> </item> <item> <p> - Click <gui style="button">Link</gui>. + Press <gui style="button">Link</gui>. </p> </item> </steps> - <note> - <p> - When a meta-contact has been created, the default contact that will be used - to have a conversation with when you double-click on it, is the contact with - the highest presence on-line. - </p> - </note> + <p> + Repeat steps 3 and 4 in order to link other contacts. + </p> </section> - <section id="unlinkg"> - <title>Separating contacts</title> + <section id="unlinking"> + <title>Unlink contacts</title> + <p> + To unlink a linked contact: + </p> <steps> <item> <p> - From the <gui>Contact List</gui>, right-click the contact - to separate, and select <gui style="menuitem">Link Contacts...</gui>. + Select the contact from your list. + </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Press <gui style="button">Edit</gui> in the top-right corner of <app>Contacts</app>. + </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Press <gui style="button">Linked Contacts</gui>. + </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Press <gui style="button">Remove</gui> to unlink an entry from the linked contact. </p> </item> <item> <p> - Click <gui style="button">Unlink</gui>. + Press <gui style="button">Close</gui> if you do not want to unlink any more contacts. </p> </item> + <item> + <p> + Finally, press <gui style="button">Done</gui> to finish editing. + </p> + </item> </steps> </section> </page> |