{"id":364,"date":"2012-07-24T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2018-07-06T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T19:51:16","slug":"sharing-a-profile-in-the-connections-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Sharing a Profile in the Connections Mobile App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cool feature you can use with the Connections app for Android. If you need to exchange business card information with another mobile phone user, you can share contact info in 2 ways:<br \/>\n1. Send a Vcard through email, sms, etc. through the Android Share intent.<br \/>\n2. Create a QR code that could be scanned by the user on their phone.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you do it:<br \/>\nOpen someone&#8217;s profile via search or in your list of network contacts. Press the hard menu button and choose the Share item.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-10.lotus.com\/ldd\/insidelotusblog.nsf\/dx\/sharing-a-profile-in-the-connections-mobile-app\/content\/M2?OpenElement\" alt=\"Image:Sharing a Profile in the Connections Mobile App\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next menu popup is when you choose how to share. Choosing Share brings up the standard list of Android app options.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-10.lotus.com\/ldd\/insidelotusblog.nsf\/dx\/sharing-a-profile-in-the-connections-mobile-app\/content\/M3?OpenElement\" alt=\"Image:Sharing a Profile in the Connections Mobile App\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Choose Scan contact info to generate a QR Code.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-10.lotus.com\/ldd\/insidelotusblog.nsf\/dx\/sharing-a-profile-in-the-connections-mobile-app\/content\/M4?OpenElement\" alt=\"Image:Sharing a Profile in the Connections Mobile App\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, another mobile phone can use a QR code scanner to read the information and add it to the local contacts.<\/p>\n<p>(On iOS, the option to share the vcard is there, but not to generate the QR Code.)<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Chris Reckling<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/creckling\">@creckling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"name\">Chris Reckling | 24 July 2012 04:30:00 PM ET<\/span>\u00a0|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cool feature you can use with the Connections app for Android. If you need to exchange business card information with another mobile phone user, you can share contact info in 2 ways: 1. Send a Vcard through email, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/?p=364\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}