Hmm.  I have no problem getting custom views to be sticky during my test of
Outlook Business Contact Manager.

I've made sticky custom views in Accounts, Opportunities, and Projects,
following the same steps as described by Eric:

"I right click on the column area and select
customize view, then select fields. I make changes, click ok and then exit
the customize view form. the columns appear correctly according to the
customization."

I then shut down Outlook and restart and the custom views are still there.  

(See my post dated 8/10/07: "How do I share customized fields with
Opportunities and Accounts?")

I had done data entry with custom views in the Account section over a two
week period and the views /data are sticky.  I just wish I could share the
views/data among the Contact Manager sections.  

Mark Mastman
www.AccountManagers.com

I'm not sure I'm following this completely.  I think Eric's initial question
is the same as mine.  Here's what I try, and it doesn't work, and I'm not
sure what steps are happening that Eric is saying fixes it?

1.  Go to my Business Projects folder in Outlook
2.  Double-click a project to open its own form
3.  In the "Project Tasks" section on the form, I rearrange columns to the
order I want them, and remove columns I don't need to see.
4.  Right-click on one of the column headers in the "Project tasks" list,
and select Field chooser.
5.  Select "User-defined fields in folder" from the dropdown at the top of
the Field Chooser box
6.  Drag a field ("Activity Priority") into the "Project tasks" list
7.  Verify all the columns and displaying as they should -- in the right
order, and with the right data.
8.  Click "Save & Close" at the top of the form
9.  Double-click the project to re-open the form
10. Presto -- the list is reset back to the default.

I really wouldn't care so much about this, but I really think "Priority"
should be displayed in the list.  And I wish it would also automatically sort
by "Priority" as well.  

I can create views in the normal Outlook "Business Projects" folder and save
them and view them, etc.  But is there anything that can be done for this
list within the Projects form?

Thanks!

BlueJay

Lon,
In reading your post, I am looking at my contact page (2007) and I can't
find the "view" Navigation pane. I see one in "history". I would like to
customize the main contact page also, to see what I want to see. For
instance, a business card is redundant to the info on the left an occupies
1/8 of the page. I don't photograph my contacts so that's a waste as well. I
don't need to deal with "collection status" either but would like to bring
other info forward on this page. Would it work to "recreate" the main contact
page entirely as user defined fields?