Address Book sub groups

Im sure that address book can do this, but Im not sure how. I just need to be able to set up sub groups. In other words, I want a main group for my business, Kids Directory, and then a group under that for Advertisers, one for Distributors and such.
Can someone please tell me how to do this?

I don't think you can. There is only one level of grouping in AB. What you could consider is making a separate user account for business use, and then have only business-related addresses in the business AB. With fast user switching it is easy to switch between two logged-in users.
AK

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I downloaded and installed communications suite 5. As I was playing around with it (trying to get a better handle on the changes from what we have today), I discovered an oddity with the address book and groups in the "cooperate directory". I wonder if anyone else has noticed this as well as if anyone knows of any patches for commsuite 5.
Details:
when I expend a group from from the cooperate directory, the members do not appear (though they do appear in a group I manually assemble in my personal address book). The little icon simply just changes directions no matter if members appear when the group name is clicked on or not.
Another oddity is that if people are associated with groups (in the directory) via "mgrpRFC822MailMember" attributes, they also do not show up as members of the group (when the group name is clicked on). Though, members which are associated via "uniqueMember" do appear in the member list.
This is a schema 1 directory which works well with our. I am unsure if these are incompatibilities with schema 1 vs schema 2 or if these are bugs in the product. Anyone have any insight?
(hopefully that all made sense)

Hi,
Excuse the ignorance. I assume a "CR" is a bug
report? How would I go about reading the bug report?Correct. As for reading the bug report itself I don't think you can read this from outside of Sun. I read through it myself and it definitely reads as the same issue, in this case though it affects 6.2 and is fixed in the next point releases:
125813-01 (messaging server)
125819-01 (uwc)
I recommend if you have a support contract that you log a support case via http://www.sun.com/service/online/ That way when the patches for 6.3 come out you will get them first.
I have not done any patching (I can't find any
patches for Comm suite 5). It is possible we are at
the same patch level?There aren't any patches yet available - so if you are running the GA release (and there is no reason to think you are not, then chances are you are running the same patch level).
Regards,
Shane.

Address Book Smart Groups and Custom Fields

Anyone have issues syncing Smart Groups in Address Book? Seems like an awful waste of resources if we cannot keep that synced between MobileMe, our Mac/PC and iPhone.
Also, same issue with custom fields I've created for certain contacts. For example, I've created hours of operation for certain businesses. These fields sync into my contacts in MobileMe but it's not pushed to my iPhone. Again, such a waste to have information that cannot be maintained.

I have been advised by the .Mac team that Address Book Smart Groups cannot be synched between two (or more) computers using .Mac

Why Address Book Smart Group Doesn't Work?

I'm unable to find a solution to, or explination for, the following problem with Address Book and Smart Folders.
I added a custom date field for my contacts.
Set the date for one year and five days ago.
Created Smart folder with condition:
custom date 'is not within' one year.
Well, my contact I created with custom date of one year and five days ago did not appear in the smart group I created.
But it does appear in a smart group with condition 'is within' one month.
Seems that the Smart Group is ignoring the year. Doesn't seem very smart to me, lol.
Any advice on what is going on, or how to fix it would be greatly appreciated. I've spent hours looking for answers online and haven't found anything. Thanks in advance for your help.
tags: date field, date conditions, errors, problems,

Hi The Zack,
In case you think you are crazy, I can confirm that in this area you are not. I just switched from years of PC drudgery to the the new Mac religion. I even switched all my email/address/calendar stuff to pure Apple. Some bumps and hiccups, but still I guess the real test is when I log back onto my old PC I feel like I am watching a rerun of a black and white sitcom.
I digress. On of my hiccups is exactly the same as yours. Address Book is always able to search. It seems a good number of the names in my address book can not be found by typing in any part of their information in the search box. I could not fix this by duplicating the address entry, but I could get it work by hand typing in a new duplicate address entry. I am hoping you and Barry discover a cleaner solution to this.
Thx, Kmon23

Address Book and Groups vanished with Mavericks download. Is there a way to get them back?

Downloading Mavericks caused my Address Book and all associated email Groups to vanish along with all Bookmarks. Does anyone know of a way to get them back? I wish I had backups of these items, but it seems to me that the wise and sophisticated designers of Mavericks could have provided for incorporating existing data.
My printer which had been functioning perfectly under Mountain Lion suddenly showed up as disconnected. By good luck a download of new drivers from HP allowed me to print again.
I am annoyed that Apple did not make Mavericks seamlessly integrate existing data durng the download.
Oh well, it is what it is, so I'd be grateful for any ideas (other than beating me up because I don't have backups - I've already smacked myself around about that!)
John

Thanks Guys,
Yes the iCloud seems to be enabled but I don't find a backup for the missing items, or perhaps I don't know how to access it. I haven't been able to find a way to open the backup files.

Address Book Smart Group question

Hello all,
I want to create a Smart Group in Address Book that compiles people according to their job title.
For example a group of everyone whose job title is 'Manager', i.e. Job Title contains Manager. But for some reason Job Title is not in the list of options when creating a Smart Group.
Is there a way to make it work?
Also, (a question for all the Snow Leopard users) is the option for Job Title there in OSX 10.6?
I'm using Tiger 10.4.11.
Thanks all.

There is no such field for Job Title by default. If you select the Add Field item from the Card menu you can add that field to a card. However, I do not see Job Title as a search field for a Smart Group. I assume this is a bug which you can report here: Feedback.

Address Book: smart group conflict

I created a smart group in Address Book with some flawed logic and it rendered my Address Book unusable. When I launch the app, all I get is a spinning rainbow wheel, then the app crashes. I am still learning my way around the mac, so I'm looking for some advice here.
So here's my big question: Is there some way for me to delete this smart group without launching the app? I believe the app has gotten itself into a logical infinite loop when trying to build this group. If I remove the group, I believe I can get the app to work again.
If there isn't a way, can someone offer another solution?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Er, this is the correct thread: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7515454#7515454

Default Email Addresses Picked From Address Book in Groups?

Many of the records in my address book have more than one email address. When I am sending an email to that individual I start to type their name and am presented with the various choices -- I believe the address I most recently used (or maybe most recently received from) is at the top.
But I just ran into some troubles.
I made a Group of people and want to send a mass email. But, unbeknown to me the email addresses seem to be picked as the first one on the address card.
Do you follow?
How do I create the groups so mass mailings go to the email specify?

Hi wsnuggs, and a warm welcome to the forums!
You may very well get an answer here, but it's quite acceptable to start a new topic of your own, feel free to start a new topic to attract more helpers to your particular situation should it be a little different, here's a link if as is often the case, it's hard to find out where to do it...
http://discussions.apple.com/post!default.jspa?forumID=753

Address book and groups on N97?

Do anyone know how I can find out which groups a person in the address book is a member of in the N97? In older Nokia phones, that was displayed along with all the other information when I opened an entry in the address book. On the N97 this is not so.
The only solution I've found so far that even comes close is to go to the group list, open a group, select a member, and then I can see which other groups that member belongs to. This isn't really good enough, since I then first need to know atleast one group that the person is a member of before I can even do this. Also, it's very logical, or easy to use when I'm in the address book list.

There was another thread on this, and I posted incorrect advice on it, but now I can't find the thread. Someone pointed out my error, but it was so late at night when I saw it, I didn't respond at the time - so whoever you were - yes, you were right!
Yes, I agree with you, doesn't seem to work as well as on, for example, my old N80.
I haven't found a solution either.
Not that that helps you, of course, but at least you know you are not missing something - or conversely, several of us are missing something!

Opening address book contact groups

I set up a two different groups of contacts in address book. I sent the file of names from address book thru mac mail. My friend who has a Mac book cannot open the file. How can she open the file of contacts? Or do i need to send it a different way? Thanks

If it is a vCard, double-click it and Address Book will ask if you want to import the contacts.
This isn't an archive like you asked before, is it? If it is an archive then it will completely wipe out your friends address book.

Cannot modify or delete an address book contact group

I created an Outlook 2010 contact group in my address book, saved it to my local contacts folder and then copied it to our firm's public Exchange based
folder so all in our company can access it for mailings. However, once I copied it over it seemed to lock the group, I can't add or remove contacts and it won't let me delete the entire group either. This was never a problem before and I
can't find squat as to how to fix it. Please help! When I try to double click the group in contacts it says "Cannot open this item" and when i try to delete it says "operation failed".

By "public Exchange based folder" you mean public folder, right? Do you have rights on that folder?
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How to access Address Books "Smart Groups" on iPhone ?

Address Book on the Mac allows for the creation of both Groups and Smart Groups.
Although my Groups show up fine on the iPhone, the Smart Groups do not.
How can I access my Smart Groups on the iPhone?
Thank you.

Unfortunately, the iPhone does not sync SmartGroups from the MacOS X Address Book, at this time. Only regular groups.

Address Book: open groups in separate windows

Is it possible open Address Book groups in separate windows? It is a real pain to have to go back and forth from a "Group" to "All" to check who is in a group or not in a group. It would be so nice to have one window with All contacts and another with a Group right next to it to be able to compare and manage the members of a group. Any ideas?
Thanks very much.
-B

If you select a contact card then hold down the alt key the groups that the contact is in will be highlighted.
AK

Mail Group addresses not the same as Address Book contact group addresses.

A group in my Address Book does not show up in my Mail address book the same. The Mail addresses for my group includes ALL my contacts. How do we fix this problem? I am afraid to send a group e-mail in case it goes to everyone else in my address book. We set up the group in the address book via drag and drop.

That's what I thought.... Although when I log on to Mobile Me through the internet the sender's name there appears just like it does in my address book, so I thought there would be a way to set it in mail.

Address book - printing group address letter using only business address

I have a group that has business and home addresses for each person. I want to print mailing labels with just the business addresses. I went to address help and it told me to choose edit > edit distribution list. Now comes the problem. When I am in address book and click on edit the edit distribution list is always grey so I can't select it. What do I need to do so that it is selectable or is there another way to have it only print the business addresses instead of two labels for each person (one business address and one personal address)?
Thanks,
Tammy

I wound up deleting this group so that when I synced from desktop to laptop, I wouldn't be sending the corrupted address. But since they are all still in the All listing, I will check them out one by one and see what the particular problem was. I suspect it was an address that included a suite or apartment number and was just two long for the template.
Thanks for your help!

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