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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / October 2007Customized fields in contact manager
I just upgraded to 2007. - How do I import customized fields from my old folders? You can't, which is one of many reasons you should never import Outlook data. You have an Outlook data file, right? Open it and use it. Why would you import it?  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I just upgraded to 2007. - How do I import customized fields from my old > folders? Well, that's exactly what i did. - However, when I open a contact card my "own" fields are missing. Tron Egil Høyrem Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] skrev: > You can't, which is one of many reasons you should never import Outlook > data. You have an Outlook data file, right? > Open it and use it. Why would you import it? > >I just upgraded to 2007. - How do I import customized fields from my old > > folders? Explain more completely what you did. Custom forms are preserved when you simply copy and reuse the PST file. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Well, that's exactly what i did. - However, when I open a contact card my > "own" fields are missing. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> >I just upgraded to 2007. - How do I import customized fields from my old >> > folders? What exactly are you referring to with the term "contact manager"? Did you possibly upgrade from O'???? with BCM to O'2007 without BCM? If BCM is not a factor then where was the custom form published in your previous Outlook version? To folder, Personal forms lib or Exch Org Forms lib? Quick solution may be to simply re-publish the form to the designated folder. Generally if this was an "in-place" upgrade on the same machine - everything should remain the same and all forms would remain in tact. Karl ___________________________________________________ Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter "Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007" http://www.contactgenie.com > Well, that's exactly what i did. - However, when I open a contact card my > "own" fields are missing. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> >I just upgraded to 2007. - How do I import customized fields from my old >> > folders? Signal check. I see no reference to "contact manager" in this thread. Do you? SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > What exactly are you referring to with the term "contact manager"? Did you > possibly upgrade from O'???? with BCM to O'2007 without BCM? [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >>> >old >>> > folders? In subject line :-) > Signal check. I see no reference to "contact manager" in this thread. Do > you? [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>>> >old >>>> > folders? Right. I bet you a dollar OP has no idea what BCM is. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > In subject line :-) > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >>>>> >old >>>>> > folders? Well - I guess there was no bet and Karl kept his dollar .. What happened is: I upgraded from 2003 to 2007. My old pst-files were just moved to the new location and renamed for my purpose. - Somewhere during that prosess the forms disappeared. Tron Egil Høyrem Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] skrev: > Right. I bet you a dollar OP has no idea what BCM is. > > In subject line :-) [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >>>>> >old > >>>>> > folders? Still no clearer as to how you upgraded - i.e. "in-place" on same machine or on a new machine nor any mention of where your forms were originally published. If this was an "in-place" upgrade - the reference to "just moved to new location and renamed....." is a tad too ambigious to try and determine "whay may have happened". Going back to my original response, quick solution is to re-publish the form (presuming you have a backup copy of it - else, well.........). All forms should be still be there if an "in-place" upgrade was done on the same machine (if not - then it doesn't sound like the normal upgrade process was followed). If the upgrade involved a new machine and you don't have a copy of your custom form, hopefully the old machine is still around for you to make a copy and publish on new machine. At the end of the day, if your contact folder shows the custom form as the "default" to be used for new contacts and it's not coming up - you will need to re-publish the form. Everything else in terms of the "how's" and "why's" is purely academic (assuming also that pre-existing contacts are also not opening up with the old custom form). Karl ___________________________________________________ Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter "Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007" http://www.contactgenie.com > Well - I guess there was no bet and Karl kept his dollar .. > [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] >> >>>>> >old >> >>>>> > folders? More spesific: The contact form in the contacts folder include a menu where you can pick fields made by you just for this folder. These fields are missing! Tron Egil Høyrem Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] skrev: > Right. I bet you a dollar OP has no idea what BCM is. > > In subject line :-) [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >>>>> >old > >>>>> > folders? |
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