Subscribing to external address books

You can use your contacts from other providers within the groupware by subscribing to your external address books.
Notes:
  • You can sync changes from the external address book by refreshing the subscribed address book.
  • You can not create or edit contacts in the subscribed address book.
How to subscribe to external address books:
    Click the More actions icon next to New contact. Click on Subscribe address book.You can also click the Settings icon in the menu bar. Click on Subscribe address book.The Subscribe to address book window opens.
    Click one of the icons.
    Depending on the data source, the further procedure varies.
  • For some data sources, a new browser window opens. Log in with your credentials to grant access to the address data.
  • If the provider asks you for the permission to access the data, grant this permission.
  • For some data sources, you have to enter your credentials for the data source in the Subscribe to address book window.
Tip: A subscribed address book is marked with the Subscriptions icon 
. If clicking the icon, the subscription settings will be opened.
User interface:
  •  The New contact button⁠  The Address Book settings menu⁠ 
Related topics:
  •  Adding personal address books⁠  Refreshing and managing address book subscriptions⁠ 
Parent topic:  Adding Address Books⁠