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User Guide

This product is not meant for end-users and therefore there is no user-friendly installer. Please refer to the Setting up section to learn how to set up the project.

Starting the program

  1. Find the project in the Project Explorer or Package Explorer (usually located at the left side)
  2. Right click on the project
  3. Click Run As > Java Application and choose the Main class.
  4. The GUI should appear in a few seconds.

Viewing help : help

Format: help

Help is also shown if you enter an incorrect command e.g. abcd

Adding a person: add

Adds a person to the address book
Format: add NAME [p]p/PHONE_NUMBER [p]e/EMAIL [p]a/ADDRESS [t/TAG]...

Words in UPPER_CASE are the parameters, items in SQUARE_BRACKETS are optional, items with ... after them can have multiple instances. Order of parameters are fixed.

Put a p before the phone / email / address prefixes to mark it as private. private details can only be seen using the viewall command.

Persons can have any number of tags (including 0)

Examples:

Listing all persons : list

Shows a list of all persons in the address book.
Format: list

Finding all persons containing any keyword in their name: find

Finds persons whose names contain any of the given keywords.
Format: find KEYWORD [MORE_KEYWORDS]

The search is case sensitive, the order of the keywords does not matter, only the name is searched, and persons matching at least one keyword will be returned (i.e. OR search).

Examples:

  • find John
    Returns John Doe but not john
  • find Betsy Tim John
    Returns Any person having names Betsy, Tim, or John

Editing a person : edit

Edits the contact details of an existing person in the address book.
Format: edit INDEX p/PHONE_NUMBER | e/EMAIL | a/ADDRESS

Edits the person at the specified 'INDEX'. The index refers to the index number shown in the most recent listing.

Edits any number of contact fields for the person.

Cannot edit the tags of a person

Examples:

  • list
    edit 1 p/98079485
    Edits the phone contact of the 1st person in the address book.
  • list
    edit 2 p/98079485 e/[email protected]

    Edits the phone contact and email of the 2nd person in the address book.

Deleting a person : delete

Deletes the specified person from the address book. Irreversible.
Format: delete INDEX

Deletes the person at the specified INDEX. The index refers to the index number shown in the most recent listing.

Examples:

  • list
    delete 2
    Deletes the 2nd person in the address book.
  • find Betsy
    delete 1
    Deletes the 1st person in the results of the find command.

View non-private details of a person : view

Displays the non-private details of the specified person.
Format: view INDEX

Views the person at the specified INDEX. The index refers to the index number shown in the most recent listing.

Examples:

  • list
    view 2
    Views the 2nd person in the address book.
  • find Betsy
    view 1
    Views the 1st person in the results of the find command.

View all details of a person : viewall

Displays all details (including private details) of the specified person.
Format: viewall INDEX

Views all details of the person at the specified INDEX. The index refers to the index number shown in the most recent listing.

Examples:

  • list
    viewall 2
    Views all details of the 2nd person in the address book.
  • find Betsy
    viewall 1
    Views all details of the 1st person in the results of the find command.

Clearing all entries : clear

Clears all entries from the address book.
Format: clear

Exiting the program : exit

Exits the program.
Format: exit

Saving the data

Address book data are saved in the hard disk automatically after any command that changes the data.
There is no need to save manually.

Changing the save location

Address book data are saved in a file called addressbook.txt in the project root folder. You can change the location by specifying the file path as a program argument.

The file name must end in .txt for it to be acceptable to the program.

When running the program inside Eclipse, you can set command line parameters before running the program.