Chapter 11. Address Management with KAddressBook

SUSE LINUX – User Guide Part III. Office Applications / Chapter 11. Address Management with KAddressBook
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Table of Contents

11.1. Creating a New Contact
11.2. Creating Address Lists
11.3. Searching Address Data
11.4. Importing and Exporting Address Data

Abstract

KAddressBook provides quick and comfortable access to all address data of your contacts. As well as managing your local address data, KAddressBook can access, if available, a central LDAP server that hosts contact data for your entire department or your entire company. KAddressBook supports the import and export of vCard data, ensuring the smooth interaction with other programs.

KAddressBook can be started independently from the main menu, from the appointment scheduler KOrganizer, or the mail program KMail. On start-up, the KDE Address Book window consists of three frames, shown in Figure 11.1. “KAddressBook Main Window”. The top frame contains the menu and toolbars. The two lower frames contain the current list of contacts and the address data of the currently selected contact.

Figure 11.1. KAddressBook Main Window

11.1. Creating a New Contact

Open the contact editor with ‘File’+‘New Contact’, the respective icon, or the entry in the toolbar. A dialog opens with two tabs in which to make your entries. Refer to Figure 11.2. “Recording New Contact Information”.

Figure 11.2. Recording New Contact Information

Enter all important information, including name, title, private and business addresses, all phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and URLs, under the ‘General’ tab. If desired, assign the contact to a category that can later be used for filtering the address view. Select a standard category (Family, Friend, Business, Customer, or School) or create a new category.

The ‘Details’ tab contains some useful additional information, such as birthdays and anniversaries, and offers the possibility to add comments for this contact. As soon as all required fields under these tabs are completed, save the data with ‘OK’. The new contact then appears in a list of current contacts in the left part of the window.

‘Miscellaneous’ allows adding a picture or logo to the selected contact. Other features, like the entering the longitude and latitude of a location, are possible.