Manage Company Phonebooks

This topic describes how to add, edit, and delete company phonebooks.

Prerequisites

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Background information

Yeastar Phonebooks feature allows you to create phonebooks to group company contacts in an organized way and implement robust control over users' access to each phonebook.

Yeastar P-Series PBX System supports two kinds of company phonebook:
  • PBX-native company phonebook: A phonebook that stores company contacts that are created on PBX web portal and Linkus Clients.
  • Third-party company phonebook: A phonebook that stores company contacts that are synced from third parties.
    Note: Phonebooks synchronized from third parties can NOT be edited or deleted.

Group company contacts into phonebooks

  1. Log in to PBX web portal.
  2. Go to Contacts > Phonebooks, click Add.
  3. In the Phonebook Name field, enter a name to help you identify it.
  4. In the Members section, select desired company contacts.
    Define a All Contacts phonebook
    In the drop-down list of Select Contacts, select All Company Contacts.
    Note: Any time you add a company contact, the contact will be automatically added to the phonebook.
    Group contacts into a phonebook
    1. In the drop-down list of Select Contacts, select Specific Company Contacts.
    2. Click Add to select the desired company contacts.
    3. Click Confirm.
  5. Click Save.

Edit company phonebooks

  1. Log in to PBX web portal.
  2. Go to Contacts > Phonebooks, click beside the desired phonebook.
  3. Edit phonebook name, add or delete company contacts from the phonebook according to your needs.
  4. Click Save.

    Changes of the phonebook are synchronized to users' Linkus clients.

Delete company phonebooks

  1. Log in to PBX web portal, go to Contacts > Phonebooks.
  2. To delete a phonebook, select the desired phonebook, click and OK.
  3. To delete phonebooks in bulk, select the checkboxes of the desired phonebooks, click Delete and OK.
    The phonebooks are removed from PBX server and users' Linkus clients.
    Note: Company contacts in the phonebook are still kept in the system.