From 5d5c636e5a8a3264a6a860c7f8ace9ebdf137ff5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Weber Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:35:01 +0000 Subject: Described Search features. 2000-10-05 Aaron Weber * C/usage-contact.sgml: Described Search features. * C/menuref.sgml: Contact Manager menus fixed. 2000-10-04 Aaron Weber * C/usage-contact.sgml: Fixed glossterms. * C/usage-mail.sgml: Fixed glossterms, filenames, spellchecked. * C/apx-gloss.sgml: Added "Inline," "VCard". * C/usage-mainwindow.sgml: Fixed glossterms, filenames. Spellchecked. * C/usage-mail.sgml: Fixed glossterms, filenames. Spellchecked. * C/evolution-guide.sgml: New Legalnotice. Removed FDL and GPL, which are now included as part of the gnome-help package. * C/usage-contact.sgml: Spellcheck. Fixed some wording, and responded to clahey's suggestions-- notably, commented out the "add to master list" category feature. (Not sure if this one is posted twice, because I keep overlapping days. svn path=/trunk/; revision=5744 --- help/C/usage-contact.sgml | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 125 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) (limited to 'help/C/usage-contact.sgml') diff --git a/help/C/usage-contact.sgml b/help/C/usage-contact.sgml index e983a2367d..f4d7e50ebc 100644 --- a/help/C/usage-contact.sgml +++ b/help/C/usage-contact.sgml @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ actual paper book. Evolution also allows easy synchronization with hand-held and remote devices. Since Evolution supports most major - network protocols, including LDAP, it can + network protocols, including LDAP, it can fit into almost any existing network. @@ -41,14 +41,15 @@ To open up your address book, click on - Contacts in the shortcut bar. The - contact manager is illustrated in . By default, the contact manager - shows all your cards in alphabetical order, in a - minicard format. You can select other - views from the View menu, and adjust the - width of the columns by clicking and dragging the grey column - dividers. + Contacts in the shortcut bar, or select + one of your contacts folders from the folder bar. shows the Contact Manager in all + its organizational glory. By default, the contact manager + shows all your cards in alphabetical order, in a minicard format. You can select + other views from the View menu, and adjust + the width of the columns by clicking and dragging the grey + column dividers. @@ -79,39 +80,94 @@ Delete deletes a selected card. - - Show All Shows all cards. - - - - Stop Stop loading card data from the network. - + View All Displays all + the address information in the folder. Use this button to + refresh the display for a network folder, or to switch from + viewing the results of a search and see the whole contents. + + Stop Stop loading + contact data from the network. This button is only + relevant if you are looking at contact information on a + network. - - The last feature is Quick Search; to use - it, just type in the name of the person you're looking for and - hit Enter. - Evolution will search through all - the cards to find one that matches. - - - If there are no matches, the card display will be blank. When - you'd like to see all the cards again, press Show - All. - + The rest of the contact manager is taken up by the display of - your cards. You can view that display as a table or as a list - of cards— switch views in the View - menu — and move through them alphabetically with the - buttons and the scrollbar at the right of the window. + your contact information. You can view that display as a table + or as a list of cards— switch views in the + View menu — and move through them + alphabetically with the buttons and the scrollbar at the right + of the window. Of course, if you have more than a few people + listed, you'll want some way of finding them more quickly, + which is why there's a search feature. + + + Searching for Contacts + + Between Delete and View + All is Quick Search. To use + it, just type in one or more words you're looking for and + hit Enter. + Evolution will search through + the contents of every displayed card to find one that + matches. That means that you can refine searches by doing several in + succession. + + + If there are no matches, the card display will be blank. When + you'd like to see all the cards again, press Show + All. + + + Refining a Quick Search + + Tom comes back from lunch and finds a note on his keyboard: + "Curtis in sales called for you, but he didn't leave a number, + and I forgot to write down the name of the company he works + for. He said it was important, though." Tom is not at all + annoyed. + + + He opens his contacts folder, and runs a quick search for + "Curtis;" there are eighteen different people with that name + in the file. He then enters "Sales," and + Evolution narrows it down to the + right Curtis. He only becomes annoyed when he discovers that + the call was not actually important. + + + + + If you prefer to perform a more complex search, press + Find or choose + ToolsSearch for + Contact. This will open the in-depth search window, which + lets you use multiple search criteria in the same way that + email filters and vFolders do.. + + + Click Add Criterion to increase the + number of criteria you'd like to use in the search, and + Remove Criterion to remove one from the + bottom of the list. Your criteria may be a searchs within the + Name or Email + fields; alternately you can choose to search through all the + fields with a regular expression. Then, you can select all + the familiar requirements like Begins + With and Does Not Contain, + decide whether to match All or + Any of your criteria, and press + Search to set it all off. + + + + - Destroy, Create, or Change Cards - + Destroy, Create, and Change: The Contact Editor To delete a card, click on it once to select it, then press the Delete Card button. If you have @@ -136,8 +192,13 @@ The contact editor window has two tabs, General, for basic contact information, and Details, for a more specific - description of the person. In addition, it contains a full - menu bar, covered in . + description of the person. In addition, it contains a + File menu, covered in , and a toolbar with three + items: Save and Close, + Print, and Delete. + After that, however, it gets slightly more complicated, as you + can see in .
@@ -152,19 +213,14 @@ The General 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 file folder for - contacts, and a briefcase for categories. You can guess what - sort of information belongs in fields like Job - Title and Web page address, - but there are several parts of the window that are a little - more interesting. + address; a globe for web page address; a house for postal + address; a file folder for contacts, and a briefcase for + categories. You can guess what sort of information belongs in + fields like Job Title and Web + page address, but there are several parts of the + window that are a little more interesting. - For more information about the Categories - organization tool, have a look at . The rest of the features in - the window are here: - Full Name @@ -264,6 +320,27 @@ + + The last item in the General tab is the + Categories organization tool. That's + really its own topic; for information on that, read . + + + The Details 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 answer. + + + + +