GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 324410
Create new "contacts group" is unavailable - documentation
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:48:46 UTC
Please describe the problem: I have many contacts and I want to organize them. I looked trought evoulution help and found that I can do this with "Contacts Groups". But I do not have menu item "File > New > Contacts Group". I have Contact, Contact List and Address book... How can I fix this problem? Thank you for your time, Peter. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
Peter: Yeah this is bug in documentation. To organize address you can use 'New' ->'Addressbook' Confirming this bug to fix issue in documentation.
Contacts group is the same as Contact List. Changing the component to Documentation.
But contact lists are not enought to manage contacts in effective way. It's necessary to add something like subfolders in address book. Though documentation also needs to be fixed.
U can create a new addressbook by
U can create a new addressbook by clicking New->Address Book. Then within an adressbook u can have contact lists to manage contacts. Further u can manage contacts by categorizing them (putting them into different categories).
Evolution supports multiple addressbooks, but not sub-folders in personal (local) contacts. For other backends it depends on the server support.
still in 2.7's docs. so what is it? a contact list? or an address book? can anyone please clarify this?
(In reply to comment #1) > Peter: Yeah this is bug in documentation. To organize address you can use 'New' > ->'Addressbook' > Confirming this bug to fix issue in documentation. > This bug is already fixed in the Evo 2.8 User guide
(In reply to comment #7) > still in 2.7's docs. > > so what is it? a contact list? or an address book? can anyone please clarify > this? > Contacts groups and contact lists are not the same. A contacts group is like a folder or address book full of contacts. A contact list is a single contact that contains other contacts, and is most often used to e-mail several people at once.
yes, at least the "new > contacts group" part is fixed in the user docs. however, "contacts group" is still a confusing term to me. closing as fixed.
(In reply to comment #10) > yes, at least the "new > contacts group" part is fixed in the user docs. > however, "contacts group" is still a confusing term to me. > > closing as fixed. > Contact group is nothing but Address Book:)
radhika: if this is the case for *all* backends supported by evolution, and all of those backends call it "address book", and none of those backends call it "folder", then the docs should be changed to *only* use the term "address book".