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Vinnie00 - 04 Feb 2008 20:07 GMT

I want to be able to view most recent activty date at a glance from the
contact screen. I have created a custom view, but I can not get a date to
populate. I have tried using created or modified from the Journal fields,
but I either get the date the contact was created or none. Is there a way to
set up a field that will display the date of the most recent activity?

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Diane Poremsky - 04 Feb 2008 23:12 GMT

the created and modified dates should work. (They do here.) While there
shouldn't be a difference when using the field from another item type, there
is a created and modified field for contacts which you can use.

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> I want to be able to view most recent activty date at a glance from the
> contact screen. I have created a custom view, but I can not get a date to
> populate. I have tried using created or modified from the Journal fields,
> but I either get the date the contact was created or none. Is there a way
> to
> set up a field that will display the date of the most recent activity?

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Vinnie00 - 05 Feb 2008 02:26 GMT

I don't want the date the contact was created. I want the date of the most
recent activity. This isn't an available field to chosse when setting up a
new view. Is there a way to do it?

> the created and modified dates should work. (They do here.) While there
> shouldn't be a difference when using the field from another item type, there
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> > to
> > set up a field that will display the date of the most recent activity?

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Diane Poremsky - 05 Feb 2008 03:53 GMT

That's the modified field.
Use the field chooser to find it and drag it to the view.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/custom_views.htm#fieldchooser

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> I don't want the date the contact was created. I want the date of the
> most
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>> > set up a field that will display the date of the most recent activity?

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Brian Tillman - 05 Feb 2008 13:19 GMT

> I don't want the date the contact was created. I want the date of
> the most recent activity. This isn't an available field to chosse
> when setting up a new view. Is there a way to do it?

The Modified date would be as close to that as you can come. Not every
action updates the Modified date, however.

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