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7 <link type="guide" xref="index#contacts" />
8 <link type="seealso" xref="send-message" />
9 <link type="seealso" xref="audio-call" />
10 <link type="seealso" xref="video-call" />
11 <desc>Merge and separate different contacts into a single one.</desc>
12 <revision pkgversion="2.32" version="0.1" date="2010-09-06" status="draft"/>
13 <revision pkgversion="2.32" version="0.2" date="2010-09-09" status="review"/>
14 <credit type="author">
15 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
16 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
20 Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0
25 <title>Combine and separate contacts</title>
27 If one, or more, of your contacts has multiple accounts with different
28 messaging services, you can combine these contacts into a single one.
31 The resulting contact is called a <em>meta-contact</em>: a contact composed
32 from different single contacts.
35 If you have a Jane Smith contact that is using three different messaging
56 You can combine these contacts into a single Jane Smith one.
59 <section id="linking">
60 <title>Combining contacts</title>
64 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, right-click one of the contact
65 that has different accounts, and select
66 <gui style="menuitem">Link Contacts...</gui>.
71 From the left pane in the <gui>Link Contacts</gui> window,
72 select the contacts you want to combine.
77 Click <gui style="button">Link</gui>.
83 When a meta-contact has been created, the default contact that will be used
84 to have a conversation with when you double-click on it, is the contact with
85 the highest presence on-line.
90 <section id="unlinkg">
91 <title>Separating contacts</title>
95 From the <gui>Contact List</gui>, right-click the contact
96 to separate, and select <gui style="menuitem">Link Contacts...</gui>.
101 Click <gui style="button">Unlink</gui>.