 | Contacts |
Laszlo Contacts always comes bundled with Webtop, allowing users to keep track of key contact information easily. Laszlo Contacts is the central repository for users’ contacts and, as a result, can be accessed across other Webtop applications. As an example, Mail will auto-suggest email addresses after only entering a few characters, and Contacts presents a new rollover icon to allow quick composition to a one or more contacts. These features demonstrate the breadth of Webtop’s integration points, which streamlines all the applications to provide a consistent user experience.
Along with the details panel, Contacts provides a convenient summary view of all contacts, displaying the first name, last name, and default email address at-a-glance. Users may easily import their existing contact lists and also define groups to save time.
| End User Features | Benefits |
| Manage Contacts | Quickly create, and maintain, a list of key contacts and associated information. Multiple contacts can be selected at once to allow fast email addressing, deletion or addition to a group. |
| Create Groups | Save time by creating a Group to store a list of contacts. Since Contacts is integrated with Laszlo Mail you can compose a message to a Group instead of entering each contact separately. |
| Import Contacts | Users can easily import contacts via a standard Comma Separated Value (CSV) file. Once imported, your contacts are instantly available to other applications such as Mail. |
| Rapid Sort | Quickly sort by first name, last name, or email address in either ascending or descending order. |
| Store loads of contacts | Store up to 50,000 contacts in the current version. |
| Filter in real-time | Enter text into the search field and automatically see the contacts you are trying to locate. The app instantly filters multiple fields including first name, last name, or email to match the characters you have entered. |
| Developer Features | Benefits |
| Scalable | Contacts uses the advanced data paging model in Webtop to handle large datasets. Contacts service uses JDBC to store and retrieve contact data in a MySQL database. |
| Skinning | CSS styling allows you to change the colors (components, highlights, background colors, etc.) of any Webtop applications, including Contacts. Contacts has five styles total (gloss: silver, gold, green, blue, purple) and Mail has two styles (gloss: silver and gold) |
| Contacts APIs | Information in Contacts (name, address, phone numbers, etc.) is automatically available to any other application delivered within an instance of Webtop. For example, Laszlo Mail integrates with Contact Manager to populate the To: and Cc: fields of a new mail message via drag and drop or the auto-suggest API. API highlights:
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