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Working with contacts

Working with contacts

The Contact section contains your 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 or FortiVoice Cloud.

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

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

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

Adding a personal contact

To add a 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 would like to add to the Personal section.
  3. Tap .
  4. Tap Import.
  5. Update the information, if necessary.
  6. Tap Save.
  7. Tap OK.

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

  1. In the Personal section, tap + .
  2. Enter the details for this new contact.
  3. Tap Save.

Editing a personal contact

To edit contact details

  1. Tap the contact that you want to edit.
  2. Tap .
  3. Tap Edit.
  4. Update the contact details, as necessary.
  5. Tap Save.

To add or change a contact picture

  1. Tap the contact that you want to edit.
  2. Tap the placeholder image or contact picture.
  3. Tap Edit.
  4. Select the source (Photo library or Camera) and follow the prompts to add the picture.
  5. Tap Close.

Deleting a personal contact

  1. Tap the contact that you want to delete.
  2. Tap .
  3. Tap Delete.
  4. To confirm, tap Delete Contact.

Calling a contact

In the Contact list, go to the entry that you want to call and tap .

Displaying more entries in the Directory

The directory on the FortiVoice phone system or FortiVoice Cloud can be quite large. The total count of directory entries displays in 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.

Working with contacts

The Contact section contains your 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 or FortiVoice Cloud.

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

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

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

Adding a personal contact

To add a 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 would like to add to the Personal section.
  3. Tap .
  4. Tap Import.
  5. Update the information, if necessary.
  6. Tap Save.
  7. Tap OK.

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

  1. In the Personal section, tap + .
  2. Enter the details for this new contact.
  3. Tap Save.

Editing a personal contact

To edit contact details

  1. Tap the contact that you want to edit.
  2. Tap .
  3. Tap Edit.
  4. Update the contact details, as necessary.
  5. Tap Save.

To add or change a contact picture

  1. Tap the contact that you want to edit.
  2. Tap the placeholder image or contact picture.
  3. Tap Edit.
  4. Select the source (Photo library or Camera) and follow the prompts to add the picture.
  5. Tap Close.

Deleting a personal contact

  1. Tap the contact that you want to delete.
  2. Tap .
  3. Tap Delete.
  4. To confirm, tap Delete Contact.

Calling a contact

In the Contact list, go to the entry that you want to call and tap .

Displaying more entries in the Directory

The directory on the FortiVoice phone system or FortiVoice Cloud can be quite large. The total count of directory entries displays in 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.