Address book for the OBi2182

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RodgerDJr:
Good Afternoon all,

I am using Google Voice and would like to import some of my contacts not all of them to the phone is there a way of doing that?  I know this would be a good time to clean up my contacts.  Could I create a new gmail and import my contact to that account and then import those contacts or do the contact have to come from the google voice account I already have setup? 

Is there a way to just take a CSV file and import it into the phone?

Thanks again,
Rodger

RodgerDJr:
OK so I think I figured out a way to do this without importing all of my contacts. 

I exported my current list to a CSV I was able to just select the ones I wanted to export.I opened the file in Excel and edited the contacts. I then created a NEW Google Account just for my contacts.I imported the list into the NEW Google Account I just created.I want back in to OBiTalk and imported the contacts from the New Google Account.
I only did one contact at the moment as I wanted to prove that the concept would work.  I will work on the rest of my address book now.  It really looks like there are only a few fields it will take in so there is no need to try and do a large cleanup or anything.  Just name and number and maybe a grouping, but I am not sure which field that would be in Google. 

I will come back and update once I get all of my contacts imported, and let you know if there any tips or things to watch out for.

Rodger

jccpa:
What method are you using to import the Google contacts? Is there a way to keep google contacts sync'd with your Obi devices?

I don't have or use GV Suite, which I've read in comments isn't supported in the 2182?

Share your success and wisdom ;)

drgeoff:
Quote from: jccpa on April 26, 2021, 07:01:46 am

What method are you using to import the Google contacts? Is there a way to keep google contacts sync'd with your Obi devices?

No, AIUI you need to do a new import when you make a change to your Google contacts.

jccpa:
Quote from: drgeoff on April 26, 2021, 11:19:06 am


No, AIUI you need to do a new import when you make a change to your Google contacts.


And select on 2182 to skip duplicates. I tried it last night.

So how do we search the contacts on the phone to find a contact?

Maybe I overloaded it with too many contacts. When I only had some imported, I could hit the keypad of the letter to search and then go through those with the scroll.

But now it doesn't do that.

Is there a page-down option on the phone to scroll through the list?

I really want to like this feature.

Thanks.

FOUND THE BUG in the CONTACT/PHONE BOOK :

If you have a contact that begins with underscore (_), which I do to keep it visually separate from the rest of the contacts, the single keypress to search the contacts DOES NOT WORK!

After I removed that contact, it works.

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