My company is using an exchange server to share files. We have created a contact list on the server. All employees are able to access it. The problem is that a main administrator creates the categories in the database and when an employee decides to move the contact to another category, they would click on the category buttona nd the category list will come up. Many of the categories are not in the employee's master category list so htey do not see it in the category window. Is there a way where we can have just one person create the category and have it become automatically inserted into all the other people's master category list? It is too time consuming to have each one of the employees enter the categories manually into their computer. Please help.
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 25 Feb 2004 19:48 GMT
The master Category list is part of each user's Windows registry. Users can
see what categories other users have put on items, but don't know what
categories the other users have on their master lists. The best solution in
a public folder is to enforce category selection through a custom form. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olcat.htm for more info.

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> My company is using an exchange server to share files. We have created a contact list on the server. All employees are able to access it. The
problem is that a main administrator creates the categories in the database
and when an employee decides to move the contact to another category, they
would click on the category buttona nd the category list will come up. Many
of the categories are not in the employee's master category list so htey do
not see it in the category window. Is there a way where we can have just
one person create the category and have it become automatically inserted
into all the other people's master category list? It is too time consuming
to have each one of the employees enter the categories manually into their
computer. Please help.
Jacques Francis - 29 Feb 2004 07:06 GMT
Hello Kalina
Try www.olcat.com. OLCat has been designed specifically for this purpose.
Regards
Jacques Francis
> My company is using an exchange server to share files. We have created a contact list on the server. All employees are able to access it. The
problem is that a main administrator creates the categories in the database
and when an employee decides to move the contact to another category, they
would click on the category buttona nd the category list will come up. Many
of the categories are not in the employee's master category list so htey do
not see it in the category window. Is there a way where we can have just
one person create the category and have it become automatically inserted
into all the other people's master category list? It is too time consuming
to have each one of the employees enter the categories manually into their
computer. Please help.