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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / October 2005How to prevent contact activities info from showing in a vCard
I'm wondering, if I create a vCard from a contact in Outlook, when the receiver opens the vCard, does it also contain/show the info included on the Activities and Details tabs associated with that contact? If it does, how do you create a vCard that doesn't share all the email and journal entries associated with that contact? You can stop being paranoid about this. No one is monitoring the activities in your Outlook folders. A vCard is a text file that contains information about a contact. You can see this for yourself by opening it in Notepad. It contains no information about activities. It contains no information about activities. The Activities page builds a list *on the fly* of items related to the current contact. It builds that list from the *current user's* Outlook folders. If someone has activities related to you, they'll see them when they open the vCard you sent, because Outlook creates one of its own contacts from the vCard. If you open that vCard yourself, Outlook creates a contact with your information on it, and that contact's Activities page will show all the activities in your folders involving you. If you still don't believe me, save the vCard to your hard drive and open it in Notepad.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > I'm wondering, if I create a vCard from a contact in Outlook, when the > receiver opens the vCard, does it also contain/show the info included on the > Activities and Details tabs associated with that contact? If it does, how do > you create a vCard that doesn't share all the email and journal entries > associated with that contact? Thank you so much! Seemed silly to ask, but I really didn't know where else to find an answer. Again, thanks. > You can stop being paranoid about this. No one is monitoring the activities in your Outlook folders. A vCard is a text file that contains information about a contact. You can see this for yourself by opening it in Notepad. It contains no information about activities. It contains no information about activities. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > you create a vCard that doesn't share all the email and journal entries > > associated with that contact? My emails contain all my activities. The company owner wants me to delete the vCard from my emails, but I can't figure out how, other than doing it manually....So, maybe I need to do something to keep the activities from appearing, or perhaps you can tell me how to keep the vCard from attaching? > Thank you so much! Seemed silly to ask, but I really didn't know where else > to find an answer. Again, thanks. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > > you create a vCard that doesn't share all the email and journal entries > > > associated with that contact? > My emails contain all my activities. The company owner wants me to > delete the vCard from my emails, but I can't figure out how, other > than doing it manually....So, maybe I need to do something to keep > the activities from appearing, or perhaps you can tell me how to keep > the vCard from attaching? The recipients of your messages won't see your activities. SignatureBrian Tillman Thanks for the reply Brian. I tested out the previous information and emailed my coworker and had her pull up my card....All of the activities were there. She and I both work in different lines of business, so my activities would not relate to her. I understood that the only activities that are visible to the sendee are those that pertain to them. No one else in my office has a vCard attachment and I don't know what I did to create it. > > My emails contain all my activities. The company owner wants me to > > delete the vCard from my emails, but I can't figure out how, other [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > The recipients of your messages won't see your activities. > Thanks for the reply Brian. I tested out the previous information and > emailed my coworker and had her pull up my card....All of the > activities were there. She and I both work in different lines of > business, so my activities would not relate to her. I understood > that the only activities that are visible to the sendee are those > that pertain to them. A vCard is just a text file. Save it to disk and open it with Notepad. You'll see it doesn't contain the activities. SignatureBrian Tillman
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