Add to your address book
Instead of manually inputting the email addresses of your contacts one by one, save them in a file and then import the file into Viadeo.
About your address book in Viadeo |
You are the only person who can access your address book in Viadeo.
- No automatic invitation is sent to these people. You can later decide whether or not you want to invite these contacts.
- You can delete people from your Viadeo address book any time you want.
- Your Viadeo address book and the addresses therein are strictly confidential.You are the only person who can view and change your address book.
How can I create a contact file? |
There are two ways to import your contacts into Viadeo:
Some email providers will allow you to export your contacts. Please ensure the file is in CSV format. If possible, also specify that the separator should be semicolons and the first row should contain field names.
If your email client cannot export your contacts, create an Excel file as follows with the column names on the first line.
FirstName | LastName | Email |
John | Smith | jsmith@yahoo.co.uk |
Tom | Fish | tom.fish@btconnect.com |
Julian | Grey | J.grey@cpp.com |
etc. |
Then save the file as a CSV format. Excel will tell you that the format will not be able to save all the Excel data, accept by clicking OK and name the document.
How can I import a contact file? |
Once you have created your contact file, go to the "Invitations: Address Book: Import File" page. Click on the Browse button, select the file you have just created and click the Import button.
After a few seconds (the time varies with the number of contacts in the file), Viadeo will show all the contacts in your address book, and indicate which of your contacts are already members.
All you have left to do is invite your contacts to join your network ...
You may have an error message telling you that some contacts have not been imported properly. This can happen if one of the email addresses is not valid, or if one of the addresses in the file is already in your address book.
Additional information for the more technically-minded: |
To import a list of contacts, simply create a text file in the following format:
First line containing field names separated by semicolons.
Following lines containing names and contact details.
Example:
FirstName;Name;Email
John;Smith;jsmith@yahoo.co.uk
Tom;Fisher;tom.fish@btconnect.com
Julian;Grey;j.grey@cpp.com
etc.
The fields must be named First name, Last Name, Email. The order is not important but must be respected in the following lines. All other fields that can be found in the file are ignored.
The email addresses will still be imported even if the last name and first name columns are left blank.