1 Introduction

1.1 What is the Contact Manager

The Contact Manager is a kind of diary or system address book which allows you to store all your favourite user informaiton, web sites, ftp sites and IRC server/channels. It is designed as a replacement to all the different bookmarks, addressbooks and similar GUI's that are built into the many different Amiga Internet and comms programs.

It offers a number of features over a lot of the internal bookmark/addressbooks:

1. You can store a range of different information for one user. In the user section, for instance, you can include their address, email address, phone number, fax number, web site, ftp site and so on. All these options can be utilised by other software. Voyager can use the web information, Microdot-II can use the email address, STFax Pro can use the fax number etc.

2. One GUI, many programs. You can store all the information you require within one interface. No need to worry about Microdot-II's addressbook, Voyager's bookmarks, STFax Pro's phonebook, AmFTP's server list etc.

3. Interacts with other software. Microdot-II, AmIRC, Voyager, AmFTP, STFax Pro, DOpus Magellan and IBrowse (available separately) will all add information to the Contact Manager from within these programs. For example. find an email address when reading a mail within Microdot-II? Just click 'add to addressbook' and the email address will be added to the Contact Manager.

   Some of these programs will use the Contact Manager in additional ways. For instance Microdot will call the Contact Manager when you press to: or cc: when writing a new message.

   Textinput (the built in Vapor text editor that ships with Microdot-II, Voyager, AmIRC, STFax Pro amongst others) now supports the ability to insert Contact Manager information into any document. For instance, say you were writing a message with Microdot-II, you could insert a name, email address, phone number or any other Contact Manager field, directly into that document. You will never have to remember a friends email address ever again!

4. Groups and sub-groups. The Contact Manager allows you to create groups for different kinds of users/addresses. AmFTP, for instance, does not allow you to create groups or sub-groups within its server list, however this can be achieved via the Contact Manager.

5. Multi-user support. If you are using Genesis as your TCP/IP stack, the Contact Manager will support and allow multiple users within one interface. If there are more than one user in your house (family members), each user can have their own configurations (with password) so that their information remains private.

6. Plugin links. AmIRC (from v2.1) now ships with an internal Contact Manager plugin. This allows you to add users to the Contact Manager from within AmIRC (based on the current userlist), add interesting channels to your Contact Manager channel list and even search for entries within Contact Manager from within AmIRC.

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