Contact lists
Contact lists are specialized folders for maintaining contact information about relevant people. Contact lists may be created in arbitrary folders so that you are able to maintain contact information in the context of a certain workspace about persons who are not members of this workspace or not even users of your BSCW server.
You create a new contact list along with contact entries as follows.
• Select in the top menu and enter name and optional description of the contact list. Both may be changed later on.
• Open
the new contact list and select
to create a new contact. Enter the contact information in the ‘Add
Contact’ form. You may assign the new contact to one or several categories.
All contact details may be changed using 
in the action menu of a contact.
You can also define your own contact categories.
• Select in the top menu of a contact list. In the subsequent form you may [Add] your own categories and [Remove] existing ones.
Contacts may be imported and exported using the ‘vCard’ format.
• Select and upload a vCard file (*.vcf) from your local computer. Check ‘select character set automatically’ if BSCW is to select the character set for coding the vCard file automatically from your browser information.
• Alternatively, you can upload one or several vCard files via drag & drop using the drag & drop uploader.
• In
order to export a single contact as a vCard file, select
in the action menu of the contact and store the file on your local computer.
• You can export several contacts at a time as a vCard file by checking the contact entries in the contact list and then selecting in the selection menu.
Note: The import of Microsoft Outlook contacts is only possible if they have first been stored in Outlook as a vCard file (*.vcf).
If you are working on a Windows platform locally, you can synchronize your BSCW contact lists with contact folders in MS Outlook. See 9.7 Outlook synchronization for details.