CounterPath Bria 3.5.1 for Windows User Guide - Retail Deployments - Manual (Page 42)

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5.1 Populating the Contact List
At any time, but particularly when you first deploy Bria, you may want to populate the contact list with contacts
from an external source such as a file of contacts or contacts in your Outlook address book.
From an LDAP Directory or Active Directory
If your system administrator has set up an LDAP directory or Microsoft Active Directory, you can create
contacts from it:
1. Make sure Bria is configured to connect to this directory (page 73).
2. From the main menu choose View > Show Directory (page 55).
3. From the Directory tab, select people, then right-click and choose Add as Contact.
When you have “contacts created from directory”, the contacts are:
• Automatically updated whenever the corresponding directory entry changes.
• Automatically deleted if the corresponding entry is deleted from the directory.
Populating From the Microsoft Outlook Address Book
You can populate the Bria contact list by pulling in the contacts from your Microsoft® Outlook® contacts.
Create an Outlook account: from the main menu choose Softphone > Account Settings. See page 65 for more
information.
Populating by Importing Contacts
You can populate the Bria contact list by importing from an external file or files. Your system administrator may
have placed a file on a server for you to import. You can also import your own file or files, as many as required.
The new contacts will be added to the existing contacts.
You can import a contact list from: