68Address Book

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.

Enterprise Edge 2.0 Personal Call Manager User Guide

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