Link personal contacts to BCM

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Mike - 21 Jan 2004 14:13 GMT

I was trying to find a way to link my personal address
book the Primary Contact field of an Account I've created
in Business Contact Manager. BCM only allows you to link
Business Contacts. I tried to copy all of my personal
address records to the Business Contacts folder, but then
my address book in my Palm PDA will only allow one-way
sync with business contacts if I do that, so it's not
feasible. Has anyone found a way around this?

Thanks;

Mike.

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 21 Jan 2004 15:23 GMT

That's correct. BCM is actually a database whose records are exposed as
contacts in Outlook. The linking takes place in the database. An item in
your default Contacts folder is not in the database and, therefore, cannot
be linked.

You might want to investigate other sync programs with more capability.
Chapura has updated its PocketMirror Professional utility to work with the
Business Contacts folder from BCM. I have also heard of people using Pocket
Contact Synchronizer, a free tool from Microsoft, to copy contacts
automatically from the BCM Business Contacts folder to your main Contacts
folder. The main Contacts folder can be synchronized with any PDA sync tool.
A forthcoming version of Intellisync will support BCM, but the version 5.3
or earlier does not.

More BCM answers at http://www.slipstick.com/bcm/bcmfaq.aspx

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> I was trying to find a way to link my personal address
> book the Primary Contact field of an Account I've created
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> Mike.

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