Working With Groups and Contacts

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The Developer Collaboration feature uses groups and contacts to signify groups of individuals and individuals with whom you want to converse and/or share information.

note  To participate in a conversation, contacts must all have valid accounts on the same collaboration server. However, you may be logged into multiple servers at the same time with different accounts, and may have multiple conversations open at once.

To search for contacts:

  1. In the contact search window below the list of participants, you can search for a contact by name or by full user ID. You have a choice of options to use to assist you in your search.
  2. Search results are provided in the window below. Once you find a contact, you can highlight that name in the results window, and click Invite to invite that person to a conversation,

To add a contact group:

  1. Expand and then select the Contacts node.
  2. Right-click and select Add Contact Group from the contextual menu.
  3. In the Add Contract Group dialog box, enter the name of your choosing for the contact group.

To add contacts to a contact group:

  1. Select the Contact Groups node.
  2. Right-click and select Add Contacts from the contextual menu.
  3. Search for contacts you wish to add, and click OK to add them to the contact group.
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