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authorAaron Weber <aaron@src.gnome.org>2000-06-15 19:02:42 +0800
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Category stuff improved.
* C/usage-contact.sgml: Category stuff improved. * C/usage-calendar.sgml: Now covers how to add an event properly. svn path=/trunk/; revision=3571
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
<chapter id="usage-contact">
<title>The Evolution Contact Manager</title>
@@ -67,15 +67,15 @@
<sect1 id="usage-contact-cards">
<title>Creating, Deleting, and Adding Cards</title>
<para>
- You can create a new card by pressing the <guibutton>New
- Card</guibutton> button, or by pressing
- <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>. The <interface>Contact
- Editor</interface> window will appear. It 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 with all the items from the main window (IS THIS TRUE?
- DESCRIBE MENUBAR AGAIN?)
+ You can create a new card by pressing the <guibutton>New
+ Card</guibutton> button, or by pressing
+ <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>. The <interface>Contact
+ Editor</interface> window will appear. It 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 with all
+ the items from the main window (IS THIS TRUE? DESCRIBE MENUBAR
+ AGAIN?)
</para>
<para>
The <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab contains no less than seven
@@ -123,8 +123,7 @@
</screenshot>
</figure>
-
-!--
+<!--
<variablelist>
<listitem>
<term>
@@ -150,6 +149,7 @@
</para>
-->
+
<para>
You can choose which fields an address card has, and create new
fields for cards. For example,
@@ -211,11 +211,10 @@
<title>Groups of contacts</title>
<para>
<application>Evolution</application> lets you put cards into
- folders, mark them as members of different groups, and search
- through them in a variety of ways. This section will
- describe how to organize and find contact information using
- <application>Evolution</application>. CHANGE THIS paragraph:
- it needs a great deal of work.
+ folders and mark them as members of different categories.
+ Although the contact manager does not support vFolders,
+ categories should provide as much flexibility as you need in
+ grouping your address cards.
</para>
<sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-folder">
@@ -226,13 +225,17 @@
<guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> folder. You can create more
folders inside that one, or create other address book
folders as well. Each card must be in one and only one
- folder.
+ folder. If you've read <xref linkend="usage-mainwindow">
+ then you already know that you can create a new folder by
+ selecting <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> and then
+ <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu.
</para>
<para>
- To create a new folder, do this:
- </para>
- <para>
- To put a card into a folder, do this:
+ To put a card into a folder, just drag it there from the
+ folder view, or (SOMETHING ELSE). Remember that address
+ cards can only go in contact folders, just like mail can
+ only go in mail folders, and calendars in calendar folders.
</para>
</sect3>
@@ -251,7 +254,11 @@
and can never remember his phone number.
</para>
<para>
- To mark a card as belonging to a category, do this:
+ 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: