Why Outlook (ver. from 98 to 2003) loose contact name when export.

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Ink - 08 Feb 2005 11:43 GMT

Very deep trouble in generating reports.
Since 98 edition of Outlook, when exporting journal entries to a xls or txt
file, the field 'contact name' is empty.
Internal link between journal entries and contact names are correct and
working. Only missing when exporting.
Very interesting that journal entries generated with Outlook97 dont seem to
be affected by this issue, even if handeled in Outlook 2003.
Does anyone give me some suggestion, trick or workaround?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 19 Feb 2005 17:22 GMT

Outlook 98 and later versions do not use the Contact Names field actively.
They include it only for backward compatiblity with Outlook 97. Instead,
they use the Contacts field (aka Links in the object model) to hold links to
individual contacts. That field is not included in any export, probably
because it's not a simple text field.

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> Very deep trouble in generating reports.
> Since 98 edition of Outlook, when exporting journal entries to a xls or
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> be affected by this issue, even if handeled in Outlook 2003.
> Does anyone give me some suggestion, trick or workaround?

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Ink - 20 Feb 2005 21:21 GMT

Not useful ... And why that field is present in export map? The real question
is that OL maps the "contact" field to "to:" field. And OL until 98 version
store "contact" field ALSO in "to:" field. And all works with 97 version. So
there is a way to export correctly diary entries but with lettle work on
modules.
Bye.
Ink

> Outlook 98 and later versions do not use the Contact Names field actively.
> They include it only for backward compatiblity with Outlook 97. Instead,
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> > be affected by this issue, even if handeled in Outlook 2003.
> > Does anyone give me some suggestion, trick or workaround?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 20 Feb 2005 23:30 GMT

> And why that field is present in export map?

Again, for backward compatibility, I suppose.

> The real question
> is that OL maps the "contact" field to "to:" field.

Huh? I don't know of any scenario where that's the case.

> And OL until 98 version
> store "contact" field ALSO in "to:" field. And all works with 97 version.
> So
> there is a way to export correctly diary entries but with lettle work on
> modules.

Sorry, but I can't tell if you have a further question on this or if you're
just unhappy that this is how the features work.

>> Outlook 98 and later versions do not use the Contact Names field
>> actively.
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>> > be affected by this issue, even if handeled in Outlook 2003.
>> > Does anyone give me some suggestion, trick or workaround?

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