How to Search Contacts List by NAME using Sangoma P-Series Handsets

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Is it possible to Search the Contacts List by Contact NAME using the DPMA-Contacts PhoneApp on a Sangoma P-Series handset ?

There’s a softkey called ‘Filter’, which seems to offer a list of Contact Manager groups (which I’d prefer to see upon 1st opening the Contacts PhoneApp rather than a list of ALL Contacts from ALL Groups combined, then back-tracking to a particular Group), however, its not obvious to me how to search/filter the contacts list by name.

You can start typing a telephone no, which filters the list of matching entries, but what’s the point of that, if the user knew the number they wanted, they’d just dial it - the filter should enable the contacts list to be searched using letters matched against the Contact Names, just like it does on most other handsets I’ve used & the Sangoma Softphone Apps ?

Am I missing something ?

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You press each key for every letter , e.g. 2 for 2ABC, just ONCE! Do it with the first three letters and you will find out…

EDIT: DONT do SMS-typing…e.g. 3 times key 2 for C…

Another EDIT: This is the Digium way of name search…

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I see now, as you say, typing 2 then 5 seems to show every combination of ABC & JKL (eg. AJ, AK, AL, BJ, BK, BL, CJ, CK, CL) as well as numbers that contain 25.

I think because it includes the numbers against number matches as well as multiple letter combo’s against names, it threw me off.

Thanks for the clarification.

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The ghost of Digium is still in the Sangoma P-series phones :wink: