1 <page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
7 <link type="guide" xref="index#contacts" />
8 <link type="seealso" xref="send-message" />
9 <link type="seealso" xref="audio-call" />
10 <link type="seealso" xref="video-call" />
11 <desc>Merge and separate different contacts into a single one.</desc>
12 <revision pkgversion="2.32" version="0.1" date="2010-09-06" status="draft"/>
13 <revision pkgversion="2.32" version="0.2" date="2010-09-09" status="review"/>
14 <credit type="author">
15 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
16 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
18 <credit type="editor">
19 <name>Shobha Tyagi</name>
20 <email>tyagishobha@gmail.com</email>
24 Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0
29 <title>Link and unlink contacts</title>
31 If one or more of your contacts has multiple accounts with different
32 messaging services, you can combine these accounts into a single contact.
35 The resulting contact is called a <em>meta-contact</em>: a contact composed
36 from different single contacts.
39 Suppose you have a contact called Jane Smith who is using three different
40 messaging services like:
60 You can combine these contacts into a single Jane Smith one.
62 <section id="linking">
63 <title>Link contacts</title>
65 The way you can link your contacts is as follows:
70 Press the tick button to select entries you want to link. This will enable
71 <em>selection mode</em> and you can see a checkbox for each entry.
76 Tick the checkboxes that correspond to the <app>Contacts</app> entries which
77 belong to the same contact.
82 Press <gui style="button">Link</gui>.
87 Repeat steps 3 and 4 in order to link other contacts.
91 <section id="unlinking">
92 <title>Unlink contacts</title>
94 To unlink a linked contact:
99 Select the contact from your list.
104 Press <gui style="button">Edit</gui> in the top-right corner of <app>Contacts</app>.
109 Press <gui style="button">Linked Contacts</gui>.
114 Press <gui style="button">Remove</gui> to unlink an entry from the linked contact.
119 Press <gui style="button">Close</gui> if you do not want to unlink any more contacts.
124 Finally, press <gui style="button">Done</gui> to finish editing.