Moving contacts

You can move contacts from your personal contact folders or other users' shared or public contact folders into other contact folders - provided you have relevant access rights - using one of the methods described below.

Moving contacts using the panel function

In the Phone list or Cards view, select the contact(s) you wish to move - for a multi-selection hold down the Ctrl key or the Shift key. If you want to move only one individual contact, you can also do this in the Detail view.

After you have selected all contacts you wish to move, click on Move in the Contacts panel section. The function displays a select list where you can now select the desired destination folder. When you make a choice, please note that contacts can only be moved into contact folders and that you need the right to create objects for moving contacts to public or other users' shared contact folders.

As soon as you have chosen the desired destination folder, all previously selected contacts are moved into this contact folder.

Moving contacts using drag-and-drop

As an alternative to the previously described method, you can also move contacts using the drag-and-drop method. For this, you select the contacts you wish to move, then hold the mouse button and drag them into the desired destination folder in the folder tree and let go of your mouse button.

After you have released the mouse button and have thereby chosen the desired destination folder, all previously selected contacts are moved into this contact folder.

Moving contacts

If you would like to move contacts from your personal contact folders into public and/or other users' shared contact folders, you need the right to create objects for the destination folder.

If you want to move contacts from public and/or other users' shared contact folders, you need delete rights for the objects of the source folder and the right to create objects for the destination folder. If you do not have delete rights for the source folder, the Move panel function as well as the drag-and-drop method are unavailable, i.e., moving contacts from this folder is not possible for you.

Furthermore, when you move contacts with the Move panel function, the select list offers only those contact folders as destination folders to which you have been granted the right to create objects.

When you move contacts via drag-and-drop, you can choose with your mouse only contact folders as destination folders to which to you have been granted the right to create objects.

A contact marked as private can not be moved to a public or shared folder. If you try to do so you will get an error message.