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

Using IntelliJ

  1. Find the project in the Project Explorer (usually located at the left side)
    1. If the Project Explorer is not visible, press ALT+1 for Windows/Linux, CMD+1 for macOS to open the Project Explorer tab
  2. Go to the src folder and locate the Main file
  3. Right click the file and select Run Main.main()
  4. The program now should run on the Console (usually located at the bottom side)
  5. Now you can interact with the program through the Console

Using Command Line

  1. 'Build' the project using IntelliJ
  2. Open the Terminal/Command Prompt
  3. cd into the project's out\production\addressbook-level2 directory
  4. Type java seedu.addressbook.Main, then Enter to execute
  5. Now you can interact with the program through the CLI

Changes from level 1

What's different from AddressBook-Level1:

  • Support for storing address (a/) and tags (t/)
  • Support for marking a contact detail as 'private' (pa/) (pe/) (pp/)
  • View details of a person (view : shows non-private details), (viewall : shows all details)

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:

  • add John Doe p/98765432 e/johnd@gmail.com a/John street, block 123, #01-01
  • add Betsy Crowe pp/1234567 e/betsycrowe@gmail.com pa/Newgate Prison t/criminal t/friend

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

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.xml in the project root folder. You can change the location by specifying the file path as a program argument.

Example:

  • java seedu.addressbook.Main mydata.xml

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

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