Custom Contact Form and Address Cards

[Carey]

We have a form to create new contacts.
We have check boxes so we can select what categories the
new contacts belong in as well.
If a contact is created in Administration, and linked to
the Human Resource Category the address card shows up, and
if you sort by category they are in the categories, but if
I goto the actual contact folder the of Human Resource
(even through they use the same form "Administration")the
address card isn't there but if i view by category the new
contact is there.

So why don't the address cards get linked to the other
Contact Folders? So if I create one in administrations,
select human resource as well, it is created in both.

Maybe this is not possible?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Sorry, but I really don't understand what the problem is. Are Administration
and Human Resources folders or categories?

In any case, Outlook doesn't create duplicate items in different folders,
unless you build functionality to do that into your form code. Maybe you
should think about keeping all the items in the same folder and using the
diffeerent categories to distinguish them?

 

[Guest]

Sorry if I was confusing.

There are 5 Contact Folders (when creating a new folder
slelect contacts anyways...)

Administration
AARS Management
Chief Financial Officers
ERS Management
Human Resources

These are ALSO categories...

So when creating a new administration contact, we select
what other categories we want it to belong to. Any of
those 5, so the address card is displayed in
Administration, but not in any of the other contact
folders. But viewing by category you can see them in the
tables.

We just want duplicate address cards to be replicated to
the proper contact folder when put in that category. IF
that is even possible.

If not I believe we have to put them all under 1 because
it seems that the categories and contact folders are 2
seperate things. Or write code that does this...

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If the categories are the same name as the folders, I'd recommend that you
combine everything into one folder. While what you describe could be done by
adding code to your contact form to make duplicates, keeping all those
different copies of contacts up-to-date could be a nightmare. At the very
least, it would make the coding project quite a bit more complicated.

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