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Create a main addressbook

We believe it's best to create two addressbooks for all users. One that is read-only for everyone and one that is writable for everyone. Only the secretary department can write to all. We call them:

1. Main, read-only to group "Employees" and writable to the "Secretary" group
2. New contacts, writable to group "Employees"

This avoids the "Main" addressbook being filled with trash by any user. If a regular user wants to add a new contact it can be done in the "New contacts" addressbook. The secretary can review the "New contacts" addressbook once in a while and decide if they should be stored in "Main".

Take the following steps to create an addressbook (Remember do this as administrator to avoid data loss later on):

1. Go to the addressbook module.
2. Then click at "Administrate" and select the "Addressbooks" tab if it's not selected already.
3. Click at "Add addressbook"
4. Enter a name for the addressbook and click at "Apply". Not "Ok" because we want to edit the permissions
5. Select the "Read permissions" tab and add the group "Companyname"

Now each user will automatically use the first writable addressbook. In this case that will be the "New contacts" addressbook. If no writable addressbook is found for a user a personal addressbook will be created automatically.