Re: [Evolution] Managing Lists

[Shawn Perry <redmop1 netzero net>]

How did you get that to sort by category?  I would love to be able to group by category, but for some reason, that is not an option in any of the drop-down lists.

Thanx in advance,
Shawn

On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 13:02, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> I have a contact list from people in my Sunday School class.
> We don't use a list server, a speadsheet of names and e-mail addresses
> is simply updated and sent to everyone.
>
> I created contacts for everyone in the lists and created a category that
> all these people are part of.
>
> I then created a list contact and had the evolution contact manager sort
> by category and dragged all the contacts onto the list.
>
> Works very well - except it seems every few weeks someone changes their
> e-mail.
>
> When I change the e-mail address of the contact, though - the contact
> list does not get auto updated - so I have to find the contact in that
> list, delete the old one, and then drag the person onto it again.
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
> I would like to be able to just change the primary e-mail in the
> person's contact profile and have any lists that person is on
> auto-updated.
>
> What happens is the list starts out alphabetical, not difficult to deal
> with when I need to delete a e-mail from the list - but when I then drag
> their contact with the updated e-mail onto the list, it gets put at the
> bottom. New people added to the list also appear at bottom.
>
> The order in the list then becomes non alphabetical over time, which
> adds to the problem of having to update more than one component.
>
> I *really* would like to be able to just update a contact and have any
> lists that contact is on automagically updated.
>
> I have a list for this Sunday School class, a list for personal, a list
> for family, etc. and some people are on more than one contact list.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
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