BCM should have capacity to divide one DB into multiple

[GRusnell]

I would like to have more DB management capacity in BCM. My database has
grown into thousands of contacts. I segragate my contacts based on Category,
and I would like the ability to easily deploy a new DB based on the
categories I want to seperate.
i.e. I do work for 3 different companies and would like to seperate my
current single data base into 3, one for each company I do work for.

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[Ed Marmon]

I would like to have more DB management capacity in BCM. My database
has grown into thousands of contacts. I segragate my contacts based on
Category, and I would like the ability to easily deploy a new DB based
on the categories I want to seperate.
i.e. I do work for 3 different companies and would like to seperate my
current single data base into 3, one for each company I do work for.

maybe another outlook profile can hold another bcm database? i dont even
know if you can support multi bcm databases in one outlook profile.. havent
tried it. i just tried to add another bcm database file-data file
management-add-bcm databse. error- "cannot be specifried twice". so...
maybe create multiple outlook profiles and then store a separate bcm for
each... kind of clunky, i agree....

by the way, have you found an efficient way to design a letter template for
a single letter to a contact, and how to do it for mail or email purposes?
i come from act! and it's a 2 click process to write a personalized form
letter to a single contact, not some long drawn out mail merge process with
many wizard windows for nothing more than just a single personalized email
or mail note.

 

[Luther]

1. You could export your database to a BCM file.

2. Split the XML entities into three seperate groups and save them to
three BCM files.

3. Create three databases.

4. Import one of the three BCM files into each database.

Step one is the tricky one. It would be a pain and error-prone to do in
an editor, so it may be quicker to write a script to generate the three
files.