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Contact

The Contact section of the FortiFone softclient for Android contains personal, phone, and company contacts.

This section includes the following topics:

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Function

Personal — opens your personal contacts. FortiFone automatically uploads personal contacts to the FortiVoice user portal.

Phone — opens the contacts stored on your mobile phone. To populate this list, you must allow the FortiFone softclient to access files on your mobile device.

Directory — opens the directory of the FortiVoice phone system.

Refresh — refreshes the current page in case new contacts have been added to your mobile phone or the FortiVoice directory.

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Add — available in the Personal list and used to add a new contact.

Place call — tap this icon to place a call to the phone number associated with the contact.

Adding a personal contact

To add a personal contact from your mobile phone or the FortiVoice directory to the Personal section, follow these steps:

  1. Tap either Phone or Directory.
  2. Tap the contact that you want to add to the Personal section.
  3. Tap .
  4. Tap Import.
  5. Update the contact details, if necessary.
  6. Tap Save.

Alternatively, you can add a new contact to the Personal contact section by performing the following steps:

  1. In the Personal section, tap + .
  2. Fill in the information.
  3. Tap Save.

Editing a personal contact

  1. In the Personal section, tap the contact that you want to edit.
  2. Tap .
  3. Tap Edit.
  4. Update the contact details, as necessary.
  5. To confirm, tap Save.

Deleting a personal contact

  1. In the Personal section, tap the contact that you want to delete.
  2. Tap .
  3. Tap Delete.
  4. To confirm, tap Yes.

Calling a personal contact

  1. In the Personal contact list, go to the contact that you want to call.
  2. Tap .

Displaying more Directory entries

The directory on the FortiVoice phone system can be quite large. The total count of directory entries displays above the Contact options area.

To display more Directory entries, scroll to the bottom of the Directory section and swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen.

Contact

The Contact section of the FortiFone softclient for Android contains personal, phone, and company contacts.

This section includes the following topics:

Icon

Function

Personal — opens your personal contacts. FortiFone automatically uploads personal contacts to the FortiVoice user portal.

Phone — opens the contacts stored on your mobile phone. To populate this list, you must allow the FortiFone softclient to access files on your mobile device.

Directory — opens the directory of the FortiVoice phone system.

Refresh — refreshes the current page in case new contacts have been added to your mobile phone or the FortiVoice directory.

+

Add — available in the Personal list and used to add a new contact.

Place call — tap this icon to place a call to the phone number associated with the contact.

Adding a personal contact

To add a personal contact from your mobile phone or the FortiVoice directory to the Personal section, follow these steps:

  1. Tap either Phone or Directory.
  2. Tap the contact that you want to add to the Personal section.
  3. Tap .
  4. Tap Import.
  5. Update the contact details, if necessary.
  6. Tap Save.

Alternatively, you can add a new contact to the Personal contact section by performing the following steps:

  1. In the Personal section, tap + .
  2. Fill in the information.
  3. Tap Save.

Editing a personal contact

  1. In the Personal section, tap the contact that you want to edit.
  2. Tap .
  3. Tap Edit.
  4. Update the contact details, as necessary.
  5. To confirm, tap Save.

Deleting a personal contact

  1. In the Personal section, tap the contact that you want to delete.
  2. Tap .
  3. Tap Delete.
  4. To confirm, tap Yes.

Calling a personal contact

  1. In the Personal contact list, go to the contact that you want to call.
  2. Tap .

Displaying more Directory entries

The directory on the FortiVoice phone system can be quite large. The total count of directory entries displays above the Contact options area.

To display more Directory entries, scroll to the bottom of the Directory section and swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen.