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KAddressBook is a powerful address book application integrated in the KDE-PIM suite.

Introduction

KAddressBook stores all the personal details of your family, friends and other contacts. It supports large variety of services, including NextCloud, Kolab, Google Contacts, Microsoft Exchange (EWS) or any standard CalDAV server.

Tutorials

Getting started

Connect to an external service?

Synchronizing NextCloud with KDE PIM (NextCloud Documentation)

Backing up your Data

The page Akonadi and AddressBook helps you understand the structure of KAddressBook, so that you can be sure that you have backed up all that you need.

Download

KAddressBook is available in all major Linux distribution repositories, as tarballs, and soon a Flatpak version will also be available. Ancient versions were compatible with Windows, the Kontact team is looking for help to improve Windows support. For more information look at the Kontact download page.

Installation Instructions

If you need help to install KAddressBook, look at this tutorial about how to install KDE software.

More Information

Website

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 [https://kontact.kde.org/components/kaddressbook.html KAddressBook] stores all the personal details of your family, friends and other contacts. It supports large variety of services, including NextCloud, Kolab, Google Contacts, Microsoft Exchange (EWS) or any standard CalDAV server.
-== How to get started ==
+== Tutorials == <!--T:30-->
-=== Create a new address book ===
+=== Getting started === <!--T:31-->
-First create a address book, by right clicking on the <menuchoice>Address Books</menuchoice> section, to open a context menu, and then click on <menuchoice>Add Address Book...</menuchoice>.
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+* [[Special:myLanguage/KAddressBook/Tutorials/How to create a new address book?|How to create a new address book?]]
+* [[Special:myLanguage/KAddressBook/Tutorials/How to add a new contact?|How to add a new contact?]]
-[[File:AddAddressBook1.png|400px|center|thumb|Create a new address book.]]
+=== Connect to an external service? === <!--T:33-->
-You will now see a list of differents supported services, NextCloud, Google Contacts, ... Choose the services you want to use.
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+* [https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/13/user_manual/pim/sync_kde.html Synchronizing NextCloud with KDE PIM] (NextCloud Documentation)
-{{Note|If you want a local file to save the address book, select <menuchoice>vCard File</menuchoice>}}
+===Backing up your Data=== <!--T:19-->
-[[File:AddAddressBook2.png|400px|center|thumb|Select a service for the new address book.]]
-You then need to configure the service, by for example giving your credentials, or if you prefer using a local file giving the path to the file (can be new or already existing).
-[[File:AddAddressBook3.png|400px|center|thumb|Configure the service.]]
-==Backing up your Data== <!--T:19-->
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 The page [[Special:myLanguage/Akonadi_and_AddressBook|Akonadi and AddressBook]] helps you understand the structure of KAddressBook, so that you can be sure that you have backed up all that you need.
-==Troubleshooting== <!--T:21-->
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+{{KontactInstall|KAddressBook}}
+== More Information == <!--T:35-->
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-A number of common 'teething problems' have been reported in versions shipped with KDE SC 4.4.  Many of them disappeared with the advent of 4.4.1, but if you still get error messages, [[Special:myLanguage/Akonadi_4.4/Troubleshooting|Akonadi 4.4 Troubleshooting]] has solutions to many problems.
+* [https://kontact.kde.org/components/kaddressbook.html Website]
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