Work with groups of contact

To create a new group, do the following:

1.Click the New contact button located on the Navigation bar and select Create new group from the drop-down menu. The New group window will open.

2.Specify the location (the account) where the group is saved.

3.Enter the name of the group.

4.Specify the group members. You can paste a list of addresses that was copied to the clipboard when viewing an email, event, or group of contacts

5.Click the Save button.

The created group will appear in the My groups section list. All subsequent created groups will also be displayed in this section.

If, when creating a new group, the user clicks the Cancel button in the New group window, clicks anywhere outside the New group window, or tries to close the tab (window) of the web browser in which the group is being created, a warning about unsaved changes will be displayed on the screen, requiring confirmation of the action.

You can add contacts to the created group. To do this, do the following:

1.Go to the address book from which you want to add contacts to the group.

2.Select a contact/several contacts in the workspace by left-clicking their avatars.

3.Run the add contacts command in one of the following ways:

•Click the Add to group button on the Toolbar.

•For the selected contact, click theMore button in the Reading pane and select the Add to group command.

4.In the window that opens, select the place to save the group (account), group names, and set the list of participants.

5.Click the Save button.

If you successfully add contacts to the specified groups, a message informing you of this will be displayed.

To add contacts from one group to contacts from another, do the following:

1.Go to the My groups section.

2.In the workspace, select the group whose contacts you want to add to another group.

3.Click the More button on the Toolbar of the Reading pane and select the Add to group command.

4.In the window that opens, select the place to save the group (account), group names, and set the list of participants.

5.Click the Save button.

If the contacts of the selected group are successfully added to the specified groups, a message informing about this will be displayed.

To remove a contact from a group in the My groups section, do the following:

1.In the workspace, select the group whose contacts you want to edit.

2.Click the More button on the Toolbar of the Reading pane and select Edit.

3.In the window that opens, click the button next to the name of the contact you want to delete.

4.Click the Save button.

After deleting a contact from a group, it remains in the general contact list, in the address book in which it was originally located (all manually created contacts are in the Personal contact group).

To write an email to the members of the same group, do the following:

1.Select the address book in the Navigation bar.

2.Select the desired group in the workspace.

3.Click the Send message button located on the Toolbar of the Reading pane.

To write an email to members of several groups, do the following:

1.Select the address book in the Navigation bar.

2.Select the desired groups in the workspace by clicking on their avatars with the left mouse button.

3.Click the Send message button located on the Toolbar of the workspace.

As a result of both actions, a new tab of the web browser will open with a window for creating a new email, in which all the necessary email addresses will already be entered in the To field.

Internal and external users can send emails to the mailing group. If the Reject messages sent to the group from external addresses box is checked, emails from external addresses will not be delivered. You can set the flag both when creating a group and when editing an already created one.

To create a meeting with one group of contacts, do the following:

1.Select the address book in the Navigation bar.

2.Select the desired group in the workspace.

3.Click the Create event button located on the Toolbar of the Reading pane.

To create a meeting with several groups of contacts, do the following:

1.Select the address book in the Navigation bar.

2.Select the desired groups in the workspace by clicking on their avatars with the left mouse button.

3.Click the  Create event button in the Reading pane.

As a result of performing both of the above procedures, Calendar application opens in a new tab of the web browser with an open window for creating an event, in which the contact groups selected in Calendar application will already be indicated as participants.

To forward all the contacts of the group to another user, do the following:

1.Select the address book in the Navigation bar.

2.Select the required group in the workspace.

3.Click the More button located on the Toolbar of the Reading pane and select the Send as attachment command from the drop-down list.

As a result of the operation, a new tab of the web browser will open with a window for creating a new email, to which a contact group file in .vcf format will already be attached.

To copy the list of email addresses of the group members to the clipboard, do the following:

1.Select the address book in the Navigation bar.

2.Select the desired group of contacts in the workspace.

3.Click the button to the right of the Attendees heading in the Reading pane. If the copy is successful, a pop-up message will appear:

The list of addresses copied to the clipboard can be used, for example, when creating a new email, event, or in another application.

To export a group of contacts (upload to a fixed or external media on the user's device), do the following:

1.Select the address book in the Navigation bar.

2.Select the desired group of contacts in the workspace.

3.Click the More button located on the Toolbar of the Reading pane and select the Export command from the drop-down list.

Contact group file in the format .The vCard will be saved in the downloads folder installed on the user's device by default.

To delete a contact group, do the following:

1.Go to the desired address book.

2.Select the desired group in the workspace.

3.Click the More button located on the Toolbar of the Reading pane and select Delete.

4.Confirm the need for deletion by clicking the Delete button in the dialog box that opens.