Contact lists are specialized folders for maintaining contact information about relevant people. Contact lists may be created in arbitrary folders so that you are able to maintain contact information in the context of a certain workspace about persons who are not members of this workspace or not even users of your BSCW server.

You create a new contact list along with contact entries as follows.

• Select  File    New    Contact List  in the top menu and enter name and optional description of the contact list. Both may be changed later on.
• Open the new contact list and select  File    New    Contact  to create a new contact. Enter the contact information in the ‘Add Contact’ form. You may assign the new contact to one or several categories. All contact details may be changed using   Change    Attributes  in the action menu of a contact.

You can also define your own contact categories.

• Select  Options    Contact List  in the top menu of a contact list. In the subsequent form you may [Add] your own categories and [Remove] existing ones.

Contacts may be imported and exported using the ‘vCard’ format.

• Select  File    Import (vCard)  and upload a vCard file (*.vcf) from your local computer. Check ‘select character set automatically’ if BSCW is to select the character set for coding the vCard file automatically from your browser information.
• Alternatively, you can upload one or several vCard files via drag & drop using the drag & drop uploader (see 4.2.2).
• In order to export a single contact as a vCard file, select   vCard  in the action menu of the contact and store the file on your local computer.
• You can export several contacts at a time as a vCard file by checking the contact entries in the contact list and then select  | vCard |  in the selection menu.

Note:

The import of Microsoft Outlook contacts is only possible if they have first been stored in Outlook as a vCard file (*.vcf).