El Administrador de Contactos de Evolution

The Evolution contact manager can handle all of the functions of an address book, phone book, or Rolodex. Of course, it's a lot easier to update Evolution than it is to change an actual paper book. Evolution also allows easy synchronization with hand-held devices. Since Evolution supports the LDAP directory protocol, you can use it with almost any type of existing directory server on your network.

Another advantage of the Evolution contact manager is its integration with the rest of the application. When you look for someone's address, you can also see a history of appointments with that person. Or, you can get an e-mail with contact information in it and create a new address card on the spot. In addition, searches and folders work in the same way they do in the other components.

This chapter will cover using the Evolution contact manager to organize any amount of contact information, share addresses over a network, and several ways to save time with everyday tasks. To learn about configuring the contact manager, see la sección de nombre Administrando el Administrador de Contactos en el capítulo de nombre Configuración Avanzada.

Empezando con el Administrador de Contactos

To open up your address book, click on Contacts in the shortcut bar, or select one of your contacts folders from the folder bar. Figura 1 shows the Contact Manager in all its organizational glory. By default, the contact manager shows all your cards in alphabetical order, in a minicard format. You can select other views from the View menu, and adjust the width of the columns by clicking and dragging the grey column dividers.

Figura 1. Administrador de Contactos de Evolution

The toolbar for the address book is quite simple:

Your contact information fills the rest of the display. By default, Evolution shows it as a set of small address cards, but you can set it to appear as a table with the options in the View menu. Move through the cards alphabetically with the buttons and the scrollbar at the right of the window. Of course, if you have more than a few people listed, you'll want some way of finding them more quickly, which is why there's a search feature.

Buscando Contactos

Between Delete and View All is Quick Search. To use it, just type in one or more words you're looking for and hit Enter. Evolution will search through the contents of every displayed card to find one that matches. In other words, you can refine searches by doing several in succession.

If there are no matches, the card display will be blank. When you'd like to see all the cards again, press Show All.

Ejemplo 1. Refinando una Búsqueda Rápida

Tom vuelve de almorzar y se encuantra una nota en su teclado: "Le ha llamado Curtis de ventas, pero no dejo un teléfono, y se me olvidó anotar la compañía para la que trabaja. Eso si, dijo que era importante." Tom no está molesto en absoluto.

Abre la carpeta de contactos, y realiza una busqueda rápida por "Curtis", hay dieciocho personas diferentes con ese nombre en el archivo. Entonces escribe "Ventas", y Evolution lo reduce a Curtis correcto. Tan solo se siente molesto cuando descubre que la llamada no era realmente importante.

If you prefer to perform a more complex search, press Find or choose Tools->Search for Contact. This will open the in-depth search window, which lets you use multiple search criteria in the same way that email filters and vFolders do..

Click Add Criterion to increase the number of criteria you'd like to use in the search, and Remove Criterion to remove one from the bottom of the list. Your criteria may be a search within the Name or Email fields; alternately you can choose to search through all the fields with a regular expression. Then, you can select from all the familiar requirements like Begins With and Does Not Contain, decide whether to match All or Any of your criteria, and press Search to set it all off.