Manage Contacts

A contact corresponds to the business card of a person. Contact data such as name, phone numbers and addresses are stored here

Create contacts

Kontakt anlegen

To create a contact in the CAU Cloud, select the Contacts app. There you will find the "New contact" button in the left sidebar. This creates a new contact with the name "New contact" and opens it for editing on the right. Here you can now specify attributes as you wish, in the example you can see the name "Max Mustermann" with the email address "m.mustermann@example.org".

Add contact properties

Kontakteigenschaften hinzufügen

To edit a contact and add more properties, open the Contacts app and select the group containing your contact or the "All Contacts" group in the left sidebar. In the middle column you will now find a list of all contacts in the selected group. Here, select the contact you want to edit and change the properties as you wish. To add a new property, you will find a field "Add new property" at the end of the list. Select the property to be added here and fill it as usual. When changing an input field, changes are automatically saved. In the example shown, a date of birth is added and set for the user "Max Mustermann".

Move contact to address book

Kontakt in Adressbuch verschieben

If you use multiple address books, you may want to move contacts between multiple address books. To do this, select the Address Book attribute in the contact's attributes and select the desired address book. In this example, the user "John Doe" is moved from the Contacts address book to the Employees address book.

Import contacts from vcf file

Kontakte aus vcf-Datei importieren

To import one or more contacts in the form of a digital business card in vcf format, first select the Settings field in the left sidebar to open the Settings menu. Scroll down and press the Import Contacts button to import a vcf file. This can either be selected as a file in your CAU cloud, or as a file on your computer. If you are using multiple address books, you will also be asked at this point which address book you want to import the file into.

Delete contacts

Kontakt löschen

To delete a contact, select the corresponding contact from the list in. In the detail view of the contact you will find a context menu next to the name behind the ...-button. Select Delete from the context menu to delete the contact. Attention, this cannot be undone!