Editing a contact

There are several ways of editing a contact. The fastest way is editing directly from the table cells - select a contact and long click a field you wish to edit, it will make it editable. The set of fields you see in the main view can easily be adjusted. Right-click on any of the fields name to enable/disable fields you need.

To change the order of the fields, drag and drop them into desired positions.

Contact Views

To get access to all contacts fields, open the Contact Info dialog. Double click the contact or select it and click the Edit button on the tool bar.

There are two main contact views. One show contacts fields in categorized groups and can be found under the Contact tab. Second view is more compact and lists all fields in one table, it can be found under the All Fields tab. Overview of the tabs can be found below.

Contacts tab (default):

1. Field management tools, allow to edit fields layout of all contacts.

2. The main info area, it constrains name, picture and all kind of contacting info.

3. Additional info area, it can contain various data types like anniversaries or any other custom created fields.

4. Notes area represents a simple text editor, here you can add necessary notes.

All fields tab:

1. Field management tools, allow to edit fields layout of all contacts.

2. Contact info area, consisting of all fields including default ones like name, phone, address and etc, as well as custom user defined fields.

3. Notes area represents a simple text editor, here you can add necessary notes.

All the contacts fields are also shown at the bottom of the main view. These tabs also allow data editing.

This pane aggregates information from all contact fields.

Custom fields

Most of the contact fields can be edited. To edit or add a new field, open any contact and use buttons at the right hand part of the dialog.

Add Field - creates a new field.

Add New - add a field of the same type as other fields in the section.

Edit Field - allows to edit or delete any of existing fields.

Contact fields can contain different types of data represented below. You can choose data type for a field when creating a new field or editing an existing one.

Text - could contain any text or number info.

Phone number - for storing phone numbers, can be used for dialing.

Address - field for storing addresses.

Date - stores dates. You can use this field to create annual events in Calendar like birthdays, holidays, anniversaries and etc.

Show as appointment using category - automatically creates an event in Calendar. You can assign a certain category for the event.

Show at the bottom of Calendar - adds a notification at the bottom of Calendar 3 days prior event.