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@@ -109,12 +109,22 @@
them more quickly, which is why there's a search feature.
</para>
</sect1>
+
<sect1 id="usage-contact-cards">
<title>The Contact Editor</title>
<para>
- To delete a card, click on it once to select it, then press the
- <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button. If you have multiple
- cards selected, you'll delete multiple cards.
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click once on the contact.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Press <guibutton>Delete</guibutton>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
</para>
<para>
If you want to add or change cards, you'll use the contact
@@ -125,32 +135,32 @@
toolbar will open the same window, with blank entry boxes for
you to fill in.
</para>
-
- <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
- <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu, (see <xref
- linkend="menuref-contact-editor">) and a toolbar with three
+
+ <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
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu, (see <xref
+ linkend="menuref-contact-editor">) and a toolbar with three
items: <guilabel>Save and Close</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Print</guilabel>, and <guilabel>Delete</guilabel>.
</para>
-
- <figure id="usage-contact-editor-fig">
- <title>Evolution Contact Editor</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Editor</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/contact-editor" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
-
- <para> The <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab has seven sections,
- each with an icon: a face, for name and company; a telephone
- for phone numbers; an envelope for email address; a globe for
- web page address; a house for postal address; a file folder
- for contacts, and a briefcase for categories.
+
+ <figure id="usage-contact-editor-fig">
+ <title>Evolution Contact Editor</title>
+ <screenshot>
+ <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Editor</screeninfo>
+ <graphic fileref="fig/contact-editor" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
+ </graphic>
+ </screenshot>
+ </figure>
+
+ <para> The <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab has seven sections,
+ each with an icon: a face, for name and company; a telephone
+ for phone numbers; an envelope for email address; a globe for
+ web page address; a house for postal address; a file folder
+ for contacts, and a briefcase for categories.
</para>
<para>
<variablelist>
@@ -260,62 +270,70 @@
linkend="usage-contact-organize">.
</para>
<para>
- The <guilabel>Details</guilabel> tab is, fortunately, much more
- simple: three sections, all of which are more or less obvious:
- the briefcase next to the details about the contact's
- professional life; the face next to the details about their
- personal life; the globe next to a big blank space you can use
- for anything and everything else you'd like to note about them.
- If you ever wanted to have that uncanny knack for remembering
- obscure details like the date of someone's anniversary (perhaps
- your own) this is the way to develop it.
- </para>
-
-
-
-
-<!--- ############# This section isn't implemented yet either:
- <sect2>
- <title></title>
- <para>
- <tip>
- <title>Contact Shortcuts</title>
+ The <guilabel>Details</guilabel> tab is much simpler:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
<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 -->
+ The briefcase - Describes the person's professional life
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The face - Describes the person's personal life
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The globe - Misc. notes
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <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>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="contact-search">
<title>Searching for Contacts</title>
<para>
- Between <guilabel>Delete</guilabel> and <guilabel>View
- All</guilabel> is a quick search field. To use it, select
- from the drop-down list which sort of search you'd like to
- perform (the whole card, just the name, or just the email
- address), then enter one or more words in the text entry
- box, and press <keycap>Enter</keycap>.
- <application>Evolution</application> will search through
- the contents of every displayed card to find one that
- matches. You can refine searches by doing several in
+ <application>Evolution</application> allows searching through contacts
+ quickly and easily.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To search through contacts:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select your search focus in the search bar.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enter your query.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Press return to search.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can refine searches by doing several in
succession, or start over by pressing the <guibutton>View
All</guibutton> button.
</para>
@@ -344,28 +362,45 @@
</example>
<para>
- If you prefer to perform a more complex search, press
- <guibutton>Find</guibutton> or choose
- <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Search for
- Contact</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. This will open the
- in-depth search window, which lets you use multiple search
- criteria in the same way that email filters and <glossterm
- linkend="vfolder">virtual folders</glossterm> do.
+ To perform a complex search through your contacts:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Open
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Search for contacts</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Name the rule in the <guilabel>Rule name</guilabel field.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Setup your criteria information in the <guilabel>If</guilabel> section.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If you want to add more critera, click the <guibutton>Add
+ criterion</guibutton> button.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guibutton>Search</guibutton>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
</para>
<para>
- Click <guibutton>Add Criterion</guibutton> to increase the
- number of criteria you'd like to use in the search, and
- <guibutton>Remove Criterion</guibutton> to remove one from the
- bottom of the list. Your criteria may be a search within the
- <guilabel>Name</guilabel> or <guilabel>Email</guilabel>
- fields; alternately you can choose to search through all the
- fields with a regular expression. Then, you can select from
- all the familiar requirements like <guilabel>Begins
- With</guilabel> and <guilabel>Does Not Contain</guilabel>,
- decide whether to match <guilabel>All</guilabel> or
- <guilabel>Any</guilabel> of your criteria, and press
- <guibutton>Search</guibutton> to set it all off.
+ To show all your contacts, select <guibutton>Show All</guibutton> in the
+ <guilablel>Search Bar</guilabel> or search with an empty query.
</para>
+
</sect1>
<sect1 id="usage-contact-organize">
@@ -469,6 +504,7 @@
</sect2>
</sect1>
+<!-- we need a LDAP server up for me to test this -->
<sect1 id="usage-contact-sharing">
<title>Sharing your Cards</title>
<para>