From c1f6327303dfa50e97a02bfad8161553aa549575 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shobha Tyagi Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:10:26 +0530 Subject: Updated link-contacts.page, bug 677549 --- help/C/link-contacts.page | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) (limited to 'help/C/link-contacts.page') 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 @@ Milo Casagrande milo@ubuntu.com + + Shobha Tyagi + tyagishobha@gmail.com +

Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0 @@ -22,18 +26,18 @@ - Combine and separate contacts + Link and unlink contacts

- 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.

The resulting contact is called a meta-contact: a contact composed from different single contacts.

- 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:

@@ -55,52 +59,71 @@

You can combine these contacts into a single Jane Smith one.

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- Combining contacts + Link contacts +

+ The way you can link your contacts is as follows: +

- From the Contact List window, right-click one of the contact - that has different accounts, and select - Link Contacts.... + Press the tick button to select entries you want to link. This will enable + selection mode and you can see a checkbox for each entry.

- From the left pane in the Link Contacts window, - select the contacts you want to combine. + Tick the checkboxes that correspond to the Contacts entries which + belong to the same contact.

- Click Link. + Press Link.

- -

- 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. -

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+ Repeat steps 3 and 4 in order to link other contacts. +

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- Separating contacts +
+ Unlink contacts +

+ To unlink a linked contact: +

- From the Contact List, right-click the contact - to separate, and select Link Contacts.... + Select the contact from your list. +

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+ Press Edit in the top-right corner of Contacts. +

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+ Press Linked Contacts. +

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+ Press Remove to unlink an entry from the linked contact.

- Click Unlink. + Press Close if you do not want to unlink any more contacts.

+ +

+ Finally, press Done to finish editing. +

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