6.9.4. Subscribing to public and shared address books

Address books that are public or shared by other users can be used as follows:

You can define which public and shared address books are displayed in the folder view by subscribing to such address books.

This helps you to keep a better overview if there are many public and shared address books in your groupware environment.
If you subscribed to such an address book, you can set whether this address book will be synchronised with other clients, e.g. with your smartphone.
If you no longer need such an address book, you can cancel the subscription.

How to define the address books to which you want to subscribe and which are to be synchronised:

In the folder view, click on Add new address book. A menu opens.

Click on Subscribe shared address book.

You can also use the Subscribe shared address books button in the address book settings.

A window opens. It shows your private, the public and shared address books.
If you want an address book to be displayed, enable the Subscribe to address book button .

To define that a displayed address book is synchronised, enable the Synchronise via DAV checkbox.

If you no longer want an address book to be displayed and synchronised, disable the Subscribe to address book button .

User interface:

Address Book