Click the Contacts button. Next to the search menu is another pull down menu - one of the options is "Category is". Select that - and you should be able to pick from any of the categories which will then be in the next menu.
This is with Ximian 1.0.8 that ships with Red Hat 8 - I haven't used any other versions of Ximian. On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 12:44, Shawn Perry wrote: > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
