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Search Contacts
View Public; Contacts - Public
View Friends; Contacts - Friends
View Families: Contacts - Families
Update Contacts
   Contacts Update Request
   Contact Record Update Form
   Contacts Dispatch Menu.

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Search Contacts

The search form is on the Contacts main page.

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View Public; Contacts - Public

The View Public option brings up the Contacts - Public page, which lists all contact records available to the public. This page does not require user authentication.

If you own a record, a button will be displayed. Click it to bring up the Contact Record Update Form to change, replace, copy or delete the record.

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View Friends; Contacts - Friends

The View Friends option brings up the the Contacts - Friends page, which lists all contact records of friends. This page is private which requires user authentication.

If you own a record, a button will be displayed. Click it to bring up the Contact Record Update Form to change, replace, copy or delete this record.

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View Families; Contacts - Families

The View Families option brings up the the Contacts - Families page, which lists all contact records of our family members. This page is private which requires user authentication.

If you own a record, a button will be displayed. Click it to bring up the Contact Record Update Form to change, replace, copy or delete this record.

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Update Contacts

This option brings up the Contacts Update Request form, which starts the process of updating the contacts data base. This include

Adding a new record.
Changing an existing record.
Copying a record.
Changing the name of (replacing) a record.
Deleting a record.

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Contacts Update Request

This form accepts the following inputs.

Contacts Database	The data base you would like to update. Select Public, Friends or Families.
First Name	Any characters.
Middle Name	Any characters.
Last Name	Any characters.
Organization Name	Any characters.

If the contact is a person, enter the full name; only the first or last name is required.
If the contact is an organization, enter the organization name.
If the the contact is for the family, it must be for a person and organization name is not allowed.

Click to submit request for a contact record update.

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Contact Record Update Form

This form accepts the following inputs.

owner	The initial value is your user ID. It indicates that only you can change the record. But you can change it to another valid user ID.
full name or organization name	This is the name you entered in the Contacts Update Request form. You are not allowed to change it here.
nickname	The initial value of a new record is the first name. You may enter anything you want. This field is required for a Family record.
gender	Click female, male or none of them.
birthday	Enter 1-12 for month, 1-31 for day of month, 1-9999 for year, All fields are optional.
address (home or mailing)	Multiple lines, any characters.
city	Any characters.
state/province	Enter abbreviation of the state or province.
zip/postal code	Any characters.
country	Any characters.
telephone	Any characters.
pager instruction	Any characters.
e-mail box address	Any valid charcters for an e-mail address.
e-mail box description	Any characters.
web site address	Any valid characters for an URL.
web site description	Any characters.
comments	Multi-line, any characters.

Click to submit request for a contact record update.

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Contacts Dispatch Menu

This form comes up when the Contacts data base is updated successfully at the Contact Record Update Form.

Click to go to the Contacts page, pointing to the new record.
Click to make more changes to the contact record; this option is not shown if a record was deleted at the Contact Record Update Form.
Click to add or change another contact record.

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