Nortel Networks P0908542 Issue 01 manual Copying a contact

68Contacts

Copying a contact

When you copy a contact, you create a new contact in the Address Book based on the original contact. Enterprise Edge Personal Call Manager provides two ways to copy a contact: a linked copy and a template copy. In the linked copy, all of the information about the contact is copied. In a template copy, all of the information about the contact except the contact name is copied. In both methods of copying, the original contact remains in the original folder.

Deciding which copy method to use

The copy method you choose depends on what you want to do. Refer to the table below to decide which copy method to use.

Copy Methods

	Linked Copy	Template Copy
Information	The new contact contains the exact	The new contact has a different name
copied	same information as the original	than the original contact. The other
	contact.	contact information is the same.
	Yes.
	When you change one of the	No.
Changes	properties of the contact, Enterprise
		When you change one of the
	Edge Personal Call Manager
are linked		properties of the contact, the other
	automatically updates the original
		copies are not changed.
	contact and all of the copies of the
	contact.
	Use a linked copy when you want to	Use a template copy to create a new
Purpose	have identical copies of a single
	contact in several different folders. You	contact that is similar, but not identical
	do this to make the contact easier to	to, an existing contact.
	find and organize.
	You know a person who is your sales
	representative and a member of your
	baseball team. Put the original contact	A new person joins a company you
	in your Business folder and make a	that you already have a contact for.
	linked copy of the contact in your
		The address and telephone number of
	Personal folder. You can then find
Example		the new contact is the same as the
	contact information for this person
		existing contact, but the name is
	when you are looking for sales
		different. To make a contact for the
	representatives or baseball players. If
		new person, make a copy of the
	this person’s telephone number
		existing contact and change the name.
	changes, you can change either copy
	of the contact and both copies are
	updated.

For information about how to make a linked copy of a contact, refer to Copying a contact using the linked copy method on page 69.

For information about how to make a template copy of a contact, refer to Copying a contact using the template copy method on page 70.

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