Design flaw with "Account" Field

[ccameron]

I reported an error with the design of the account field in BCM last fall,
but there still has not been a patch to fix it.

The account field in Form View of Business Contacts does not show in any of
the Table Views. The field does not export to Word in a mail merge. Neither
does it go to Access in a linked table. Since Account is the field that
relates the Business Contacts to the Accounts, it makes it impossible to
relate an account table to a contact table in access...ie it makes the whole
thing useless.

Please fix!!

Thanks






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[Luther]

I reported an error with the design of the account field in BCM last fall,
but there still has not been a patch to fix it.

The account field in Form View of  Business Contacts does not show in any of
the Table Views.  The field does not export to Word in a mail merge.  Neither
does it go to Access in a linked table. Since Account is the field that
relates the Business Contacts to the Accounts, it makes it impossible to
relate an account table to a contact table in access...ie it makes the whole
thing useless.

Please fix!!

Thanks

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Isn't the Account field of Business Contacts the GUID (a string of
numbers and letters) of the parent Account, and not the name of that
Account, which I assume is what you are looking for?

My advice when linking to the BCM database from other apps is to use
the views, instead of going to the tables directly.