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TB 10: contact no longer shows up in addressbook, is only visible in the assigned group
 
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So I'm in litigation and I started a new address book for all the attorneys and their assistants.

Made a group for each defendant so I can quickly email everybody involved in their firm.  I assigned an attorney to a group and now he's no longer visible in the address book.

In almost 30 years of using email, I've never used the address book, so I might just "edit as new" my previous mails and keep some notes.   Happy to see TB new look!
 
 
 
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Contacts can be assigned to multiple groups. So you can create a, say, "General" group, assign every contact to it, and use that as your general address book. Adding contacts to other groups will not remove them from "General".

Address Book -> select a contact -> Edit (or right click) -> Properties -> Groups -> '...'
 
 
 
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There's a flag which says whether to show contacts in groups in the address book also.

I just switched to v10, and AFAICT the flag is no longer visible, even though I can tell it is still active. IOW, some of my contacts in groups show in the address book, and others do not.

If you are on a pre-v10 BAT, you should be able to find this flag. It is very confusingly named, and I do not remember what the name was.
 
 
 
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Edward Reid wrote:
There's a flag which says whether to show contacts in groups in the address book also.

I just switched to v10, and AFAICT the flag is no longer visible, even though I can tell it is still active. IOW, some of my contacts in groups show in the address book, and others do not.

If you are on a pre-v10 BAT, you should be able to find this flag. It is very confusingly named, and I do not remember what the name was.

Thank you, I learned something new today. I found the flag in the newest v10.1, it's called "Hide items if not explicitly selected". It can be reached from the properties context-menu item of a group (both from the old and new Address Book interface), and it is checked by default. Unchecking it will also display all contacts from the group in the top-level address book. It is strange how TB! defaults to this behavior, but there you go.

I noticed something else while exploring this: the new Address Book interface doesn't display nested groups (groups inside groups). They are still there and can be accessed through the old interface (Options -> Preferences -> Other options -> Use old Address Book interface).
 
 
 
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Yes, that's the flag I was trying to remember. Thanks.

I know that I tried nesting groups at one time, but found it was too limited to be usefule for organizaing. I have forgotten just what the limitation was.

Edward
 
 
 
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Edward Reid wrote:
Yes, that's the flag I was trying to remember. Thanks.

I know that I tried nesting groups at one time, but found it was too limited to be usefule for organizaing. I have forgotten just what the limitation was.

Edward
I imagine nesting groups could be useful to people that deal with many groups as a way to bunch related groups together. Something like the introduction of directories in DOS was a big step-up over CP/M which could handle only flat lists of files. I see no particular use for them apart from that. The flag under discussion is meaningless for them (as a way to perhaps also display contacts in parent groups, not just the whole parent address book), since individual contacts can be assigned to multiple groups, at which time the group list is "flattened".

I guess the TB! dev team also don't see a big use for nested groups since they "forgot" to include them in the new Address Book interface :)  
 
 
 
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