Adding a group to your contact list

You can organize your contacts by placing them into groups.

About this task

There are two types of groups: personal groups and public groups. You create your own personal groups and select the contacts that you want to add to them. Any personal groups that you create display only on your contact list. Public groups are created by your system administrator. Each public group has a defined list of members. You cannot change who is a member of a public group.

The contacts screen is a list of your personal and public groups. Personal groups are those that you create for organizing your own contacts. Public groups are those that an administrator created and populated with contacts. You can create a hierarchy of groups and contacts under your personal groups but public groups are static. They can be added as subgroups to personal groups, but you cannot add contacts or subgroups to a public group.

Procedure

  1. Click the menu icon ( menu icon) in the navigator and select Contacts.
  2. Click + New Group and the New Group dialogue displays.
  3. Select the type of group you want to add.
    1. Select Add a new personal group to name the group that you want to add.
      After you add a personal group, add contacts to it.
    2. Select Search for a public group to find a public group to which you have access.
      After you add a public group, all members of that group display on your contact list.
  4. Enter a name for the group that you want to add in the New Group field.
    If you want this group to be a subgroup of an existing group in your contact list, click Add as a subgroup to the selected group and then select a name from the Select a group field.
  5. Click Add.
    The added group is displayed in your list of groups.