gender of bcm contact?

[b.schmidt]

hi,

I was wondering if there is somewhere a field to set if the contact is
male or female? I need this for the mailmerge salutations, which is
quite complicated in german.

I didn't find a field, so I tried to add it as a user-defined field, but
when I want to use the name "Geschlecht" (in English it may be "gender"
or "sex"), BCM gives me an error message saying that this field already
exists.

Any ideas how I can use this field?

Best regards,
Bernhard

 

[whkratz]

Hello Bernhard -- Yes, the Gender field is one of Outlook's built-in Contact
fields, so it doesn't want you to name a new user-defined field the same.
You could programmatically access the Gender field (since you can't edit the
BCM Contact form to add the existing Gender field), or perhaps more easily,
you could just create a new BCM user-defined field that serves your purpose
but is named something else.

Regards.....Bill Kratz