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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">
+ linkend="usage-contact-fig">. By default, the contact manager
+ shows all your cards in alphabetical order, and in a
+ <glossterm>minicard</glossterm> format.
</para>
@@ -73,14 +75,19 @@
<guibutton>Delete</guibutton> deletes a selected card.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
+ </para>
+ <para>
The last feature is <guilabel>Quick Search</guilabel>; to use
- it, just enter what you're looking for and hit
+ it, just type in the person you're looking for and hit
<keycap>Enter</keycap>. <application>Evolution</application>
- will show you all the cards that match; if there are none, the
- 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.
+ will search through the name fields of all the cards to find
+ one that matches. The search is currently case-sensitive.
+ </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
@@ -88,124 +95,183 @@
cards&mdash; switch between them in the <guimenu>View</guimenu>
menu &mdash; and move through them alphabetically alphanumeric
buttons and the scrollbar at the right of the window.
-
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="usage-contact-cards">
- <title>Creating, Deleting, and Adding Cards</title>
+ <title>Create, Change, and Delete Cards</title>
+
<para>
- Open up the contact editor by pressing the <guibutton>New
- Card</guibutton> button. The 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. FIXME:
- The contents are still changing rapidly, but you should be able
- to guess what they're for.
+ The easiest thing you can do with a card is delete it. To
+ delete a card, click on it once to select it, then press the
+ <guibutton>Delete Card</guibutton> button.
</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 handshake for contacts (FIXME: I
- don't understand this feature, and the button doesn't do
- anything yet.); and a briefcase for categories. The things that
- go into most of the text fields should be obvious enough, so
- we'll just describe the more interesting parts of the window.
- Aside from the <guilabel>Categories</guilabel> feature, which is
- discussed in <xref linkend="usage-contact-organize">, there are
- two things you'll want to know about: the first of these is the
- <guilabel>File As</guilabel> field.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Type "Eva Lucianne Tester" into the <guilabel>Full
- Name</guilabel> field. You'll notice that the <guilabel>File
- As</guilabel> field also fills up, but in reverse: Tester,
- Lucianne. You can pick "Eva Tester" from the drop-down, or, if
- you prefer, type in your own, such as "Lucianne Tester, Eva". I
- suggest that you don't enter something entirely different from
- the actual name, however. 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 later.
- <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>
-
--->
- <tip>
- <title>Contact Shortcuts</title>
+ Any time you add new information to a card, 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>
+
+ <sect2 id="usage-contact-editor">
+ <title>The Contact Editor</title>
+ <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. FIXME: The contents are still changing rapidly,
+ but you should be able to guess what they're for.
+ </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 handshake for contacts
+ (FIXME: I don't understand this feature, and the button
+ doesn't do anything yet.); 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 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!)
+ 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:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem> <para>
+ <guilabel>Title:</guilabel>Enter an honorific or select one from the menu.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem> <para> <guilabel>First:</guilabel>The person's first, or given, name.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem> <para>
+ <guilabel>Middle:</guilabel>The middle name or initial, if any, goes here.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem> <para>
+ <guilabel>Last:</guilabel>The last name (surname, family name), belongs here.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem> <para>
+ <guilabel>Suffix:</guilabel>Suffixes such as "Jr." or "III" can go here.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</para>
- </tip>
+
+ <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>
- You delete a card by pressing the <guibutton>Delete
- Card</guibutton> button, or by dragging it into the trash
- folder.
- </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 later.
+ <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>
+
+ -->
+ </sect2>
+
+<!--- ############# 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 -->
- <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>
</sect1>
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