SOLVED Users & Groups part of a contact missing in Applications > Contacts

[s2svoip]

went to setup a remote phone book and noticed the GUI is different, not sure when the version was changed, but as per the fusion docs - https://docs.fusionpbx.com/en/latest/_images/fusionpbx_contacts2.jpg - it looks totally different and the users & groups part is missing which is whats needed to get it to work. mine looks like the attached - am I missing something?

 

[hfoster]

It's optional now. Speaking of which, I think the documentation might need a bit of seeing to with this change. I might submit a pull request in a bit.

God send for me really, hundreds of domains and not a single one ever really wanted to segment off their contacts to specific users. They all just wanted a global address book.

 

[s2svoip]

ahh thanks, humm so is this even needed, then? I enabled it and set the contact to visible for users I can't get the remote phone book to work, haven't tested it in a long time but my old steps were:

• default settings, contact groups and extensions to true
• All Extensions need to have an assigned user for this to work, user needs to be in user group
• Then create a contact in Applications > Contacts - ensure you add a phone number to the contact else it wont show up on the phone
• In the contact - Set the groups to ‘user’ for it to show for everyone in the Global remote phone book on handset
• In the contact - Set the Users to a single user for it to show in that specific users Personal remote phone book

but no dice,

 

[hfoster]

The device needs the user too, not sure the extension matters (but you need that so they can log into the portal).

Personally, I disable the permissions as not a single one of my customers cared about the feature and it only resulted in the odd extension being missed during prep.

 

[s2svoip]

yep that was it, thanks @hfoster

Really appreciate your responses to my posts as of late!

thank you.