## Help for address book list screen

The address book list screen looks something like this:

## Address books

| personal |  |  |  |
| friends |  |  |  |
| shared |  |  |  |
| fred/public |  |  |

Address book
Quick search for alias

### The table of address books

- The table lists your own address books and any address books belonging to other users which you have explicitly added. Address books belonging to other users are listed in the form "username/address_book_name".
- The and markers indicate whether or not a given address book is included in your default list of address books to search. Click on the marker to toggle inclusion/exclusion.
- Click on the / arrows to move the given address book up/down the ordered list.
- Click on to drop an address book owned by another user from the list.
- Any of the above adjustments to the list take effect immediately and last for the rest of the login session. Pressing the "Update for future sessions" button saves the current list as the default for all future sessions.
- Click on to grant/revoke permissions for other users to access an address book that you own.
- Click on to delete an address book that you own. Note that there is no confirmation request and the data in a deleted address book cannot be recovered. You cannot delete your original "personal" address book.

### Creating/adding address books to the list

- To create a new address book, enter a name for it in the "Address book" field and press the "Create/Add to list" button. Address book names must be between 1 and 63 characters. Legal characters are alphanumeric (A-Z, a-z, 0-9), spaces or those in the set "!$%^*()+=;@~#?.,-" (quotes excluded).
- To include an address book owned by another user in the above table, enter its full name in the "Address book" field in the form `username/address_book_name` and press the "Create/Add to list" button. Note that the owner of the address book must have used the above-mentioned "Permissions" button to grant you access.

### Short-cut for quick searches

From this page you can also perform a short-cut search for a given alias by typing it into the "Quick search for alias" field and pressing the "Search" button. The search is carried out for an exact match of the alias in your default search list. It is equivalent to going to the "Address Search" screen with "Search in" set to "default list" and the condition fields set to "alias is ...".