CounterPath Bria 2.1 User Guide - Manual (Page 35)

Bria 2.1 for Windows
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Managing Contacts
Changing Contact Information
To change the information for a contact, right-click the contact and choose View Profile. The Contact Profile
dialog box appears, see page 29. Some of the changes you can make are:
• Change any contact details.
• Add, delete or change a contact method.
• Change the primary contact method.
• Move a contact to another group by selecting a different group.
• Add an existing contact to more groups by selecting one or more extra groups.
• Change the Show this contact’s availability checkbox to enable or disable availability information for this
contact. For information on availability, see page 34.
Moving or Deleting a Contact
• To drag one or more contacts to a different group, select them and drag to the new group.
• To delete one or more contacts, select them, right-click, and choose Delete. The contacts are removed from
this group.
Adding, Deleting or Renaming Groups
Select any group, right-click, and choose the appropriate menu item.
You can only delete an empty group.
Field Description
Display name Required. This is the name that will appear in the Call display and the Call Alert when this
person phones you.
Group Either:
• Choose one group.
• Click More and select several groups. The new contact will be added to each group.
Contact Methods Enter as many contact methods as you want. Email and softphone entries must have the format
<name>@<domain>
Primary contact method Choose the desired method. This method will be used when you double-click or drag this
contact.
Ring tone Choose a ring tone for this contact, or use the default. Click the arrow to play the currently
selected ring tone.
Show this contact’s availability Click in order to obtain this contact’s availability and display it on the Contacts list. This field is
only enabled when a softphone address is specified.
This contact will have an availability icon beside their name in the Contacts list. Initially this
icon will be gray, later its color will change to indicate the current availability.
For details on availability, see page 34.
Other fields Complete as desired.