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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / March 2004Outlook 2003 vcard notes
We are starting to upgrade users to Outlook 2003; When someone sends a vcards attachment to a 2003 POP3 user, the vcard arrives without notes. If I change the user to use exchange services (with cache mode off) instead of POP3, it works fine. If cache mode is on, it still doesn't work...the vcard arrives with no notes. Any ideas? Thanks! This is a known limitation of Outlook's vCard implementation. I suspect that when you're sending with Exchange, you're sending an actual Outlook contact item, not a vCard. That works, of course, only if the recipient also has Outlook.l  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > We are starting to upgrade users to Outlook 2003; When > someone sends a vcards attachment to a 2003 POP3 user, the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Any ideas? Thanks! And here I was hoping that future versions of Outlook would *add* vCard functionality (see thread "exporting other fields to vCard" from 2002-02-12). Instead, they're scaling it back! BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Smith;John FN:John Smith NOTE;Notes should appear here. REV:20040209T002451Z END:VCARD If I make a file called "John Smith.vcf" containing the above and open it with Outlook 2003, the note field appears blank. This was not the case in Outlook 2000 or XP. So what are Outlook 2003 users supposed to do when they get a vCard email attachment with invisible notes? > This is a known limitation of Outlook's vCard implementation. I suspect that > when you're sending with Exchange, you're sending an actual Outlook contact [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > > > Any ideas? Thanks! Sue, Yes but that does not explain one thing. If you look at the contents (notepad) of the exported vCard you will notice that the NOTES data is contained within that vCard export. So if the data is contained within the export why isn't it importing / creating a new contact with that informatin which is contained within the vcf? g > This is a known limitation of Outlook's vCard implementation. I suspect that > when you're sending with Exchange, you're sending an actual Outlook contact [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > > > Any ideas? Thanks! Because, as I said before, Outlook 2003 just doesn't work that way. In other words, it's broken. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > item, not a vCard. That works, of course, only if the recipient also has > > Outlook.l > > > We are starting to upgrade users to Outlook 2003; When > > > someone sends a vcards attachment to a 2003 POP3 user, the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > > > > > Any ideas? Thanks! vCard fields that still work in Outlook 2003 include: N:Last;First;Middle;Title;Suffix FN:First Middle Last Suffix NICKNAME:Nickname ORG:Company;department TITLE:Job Title TEL;WORK;VOICE:Phone Business TEL;HOME;VOICE:Phone Home TEL;CELL;VOICE:Phone Mobile TEL;CAR;VOICE:car phone TEL;WORK;FAX:Fax Business ADR;WORK:;Office;Street;City;State;ZIP;Country LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Office=0D=0AStreet=0D=0ACity, State ZIP=0D=0ACountry ADR;HOME:;;Home Street;Home City;Home State;Home Zip;Home Country LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Home Street=0D=0AHome City, Home State Home Zip=0D=0AHome Country ADR;POSTAL:;;;other address city;;;other address country LABEL;POSTAL;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:other address city=0D=0Aother address country URL;WORK:http://www.webpage.com ROLE:Profession BDAY:Birthday EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:email@address.com Can we hope that future updates of Outlook will restore the NOTE field? > vCard fields that still work in Outlook 2003 include: > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Can we hope that future updates of Outlook will restore the NOTE > field? Here's a workaround: Have whoever's sending you a vCard attachment put their Notes in the Profession field (which maps to vCard's ROLE: field) and then cut & paste it back into Notes before saving the contact. It's a pain. It wasn't necessary in previous versions of Outlook. But it works. Maybe a better solution will present itself later. |
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