Administrator’s Guide for SIP-T2 Series/T19(P) E2/T4 Series/T5 Series/CP860/CP920 IP Phones 
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Local Directory 
IP phones maintain a local directory. The local directory can store up to 1000 contacts and 48 
groups (47 groups for CP860 and CP920 IP phones). When adding a contact to the local 
directory, in addition to name and phone numbers, you can also specify the account, ring tone 
and group for the contact. Contacts and groups can be added either one by one or in batch 
using a local contact file. Yealink IP phones support both *.xml and *.csv format contact files, 
but only support *.xml format download for local contact file. 
Contacts can be configured to have a backup on the provisioning server or a specific server. 
The contact file format is *.xml. 
Customizing a Local Contact File 
You can add contacts one by one on the IP phone directly. You can also add multiple contacts 
at a time and/or share contacts between IP phones using the local contact template file. After 
setup, place the template file to the provisioning server and specify the access URL of the 
template file in the configuration files. The existing local contacts on the IP phones will be 
overridden by the downloaded local contacts. 
You can ask the distributor or Yealink FAE for local contact template. You can also obtain the 
local contact template online: 
http://support.yealink.com/documentFront/forwardToDocumentFrontDisplayPage. For more 
information on obtaining the local contact file, refer to Obtaining Boot Files/Configuration 
Files/Resource Files on page 142. 
The following table lists meaning of each variable in the local contact template file: