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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="topic"
style="task"
id="link-contacts">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#contacts" />
<link type="seealso" xref="send-message" />
<link type="seealso" xref="audio-call" />
<link type="seealso" xref="video-call" />
<desc>Merge and separate different contacts into a single one.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.32" version="0.1" date="2010-09-06" status="draft"/>
<revision pkgversion="2.32" version="0.2" date="2010-09-09" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<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
</p>
</license>
</info>
<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 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>
Suppose you have a contact called Jane Smith who is using three different
messaging services like:
</p>
<list>
<item>
<p>
janes@facebook
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
jane.smith@gmail
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
jane_smith@hotmail
</p>
</item>
</list>
<p>
You can combine these contacts into a single Jane Smith one.
</p>
<section id="linking">
<title>Link contacts</title>
<p>
The way you can link your contacts is as follows:
</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>
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>
Tick the checkboxes that correspond to the <app>Contacts</app> entries which
belong to the same contact.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Press <gui style="button">Link</gui>.
</p>
</item>
</steps>
<p>
Repeat steps 3 and 4 in order to link other contacts.
</p>
</section>
<section id="unlinking">
<title>Unlink contacts</title>
<p>
To unlink a linked contact:
</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>
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>
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>
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