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Adding New Contacts to Contact Groups

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Add New Contact to Contact Group Window Overview

The Add New Contact to Contact Group window appears when you click the “Search and Add Contacts to group” icon in the Main window or when you select Add Users from the File menu.

The Add New Contact to Contact Group window contains the following items:

To Search for and Add Contacts to a Contact Group

Contacts are users or groups to whom you frequently send instant messages, alerts, and polls. Contacts are either individual users or LDAP groups. Adding contacts to a contact group consists of using the Add New Contact to Contact Group window to:

Follow these steps to search for and add contacts to a contact group:

  1. In the Main window, with the Contact List tab selected, select Add Users from the File menu or click the Search and Add Contacts icon:
  2. Search and Add Contacts icon

    The Add New Contact to Contact Group window appears.


    Tip

    Right-click on a contact group to display a pop-up menu. From here you can add and delete users, and work with contact groups.


  3. Search for contacts you want to add to your contact groups.
  4. Use the “Search by” drop-down menu to choose the type of search, either User ID or Name, then type the user ID or name in the text box.

    When you search by Name, use the Search Options drop-down menu to choose Contains, Starts With, or Ends With. For example, if you know the contact’s last name, choose “Ends With” and type the last name in the text box.

    See Add New Contact to Contact Group Window Overview for more information.

  5. After entering your search criteria, click Search. The result is displayed in the “List of contacts to Add”, or if your search finds more than one match, the Select Contact window is displayed.
  6. If the Select Contact window is displayed, select the contacts that you want to add to a contact group and click OK. You can use multiple selection in this window. See Selecting Contacts and Contact Groups for more information.

    The Add New Contact to Contact Group window is updated with the contacts and the Select Contact window is closed.

  7. To remove a contact from the list, select the contact in the “List of contacts to Add” and click Remove.
  8. Use the “Add contact(s) to group” drop-down menu to select a contact group and click Add Contact(s) button.
  9. The Instant Messenger program updates your contact group with the contacts.


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