Any folder view shows only the data in that folder, even though Outlook lets you think otherwise by allowing you to add fields from different types of items in the folder. The Company field belongs to the contact, not the opportunity.
FYI, there is a separate newsgroup for BCM issues -- microsoft.public.outlook.bcm

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Hello Sue,
> Any folder view shows only the data in that folder, even though Outlook
> lets you think otherwise by allowing you to add fields from different
> types of items in the folder. The Company field belongs to the contact,
> not the opportunity.
Hmm.. So there is no way of connecting an Opportunity to an Company?
> FYI, there is a separate newsgroup for BCM issues --
> microsoft.public.outlook.bcm
OK, I will move to this newsgroup!
Thank you!
// Anders

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 08 Mar 2006 13:34 GMT
> Hmm.. So there is no way of connecting an Opportunity to an Company?
That's not what I said at all. No feature in Outlook or BCM will automatically get the data from a contact record and put it into the opportunity record. (Outlook isn't going to do it probably because it supports linking a task, which is what an opportunity really is, to multiple contacts, so which company would you want to see? Why BCM -- with its strictly one-to-one linkage -- doesn't do it is another matter.) If you want to have company data in an Opportunity, you have to put it there, either manually or with your own code.

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>> Any folder view shows only the data in that folder, even though Outlook
>> lets you think otherwise by allowing you to add fields from different
>> types of items in the folder. The Company field belongs to the contact,
>> not the opportunity.