Importing Contacts not appearing in Address Book

[mbogan]

I need a little help here...

I have imported a number of Contacts into an Outlook 2003 Public
Folder. The Contacts appear fine when viewing from the Folder List.
The folder has been setup to Show in the E-mail Address Book; however,
the contacts do not appear. I have noticed that if I open a contact
that was imported, and "Save & Close" the contact will then appear in
the Address book properly after closing and re-opening Outlook. The
problem is that I have 15,000 contact and that is not a feasible
approach.

Also, when I imported the contacts I set the E-mail display as name.
When opening the Contact the display as name appears, but when looking
in a list view the Email Display As does not have data until after the
Saving and re-opening Outlook as described above.

Is there a special field that needs to be set during the import that I
may be missing here? Or does anyone have a macro or batch file that
could be run to open and save each contact in a specific folder?

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks

Matt

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have imported a number of Contacts into an Outlook 2003 Public
Folder.
How?

The Contacts appear fine when viewing from the Folder List.
The folder has been setup to Show in the E-mail Address Book; however,
the contacts do not appear. I have noticed that if I open a contact
that was imported, and "Save & Close" the contact will then appear in
the Address book properly after closing and re-opening Outlook. The
problem is that I have 15,000 contact and that is not a feasible
approach.

Importing doesn't enable the resolving of mail addresses. It's one of the
reasons that "don't import if you can at all help it" is posted here every
single day. Importing is always problematic. There may be a third-party
tool that can help, though, and I'd start here:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp

 

[mbogan]

Thanks Brian for the reply.

We are using a tool called Scribe which uses an API Adapter for
Exchange/Outlook. I believe that I have narrowed it down to the "E-
mail Display As" field on the Contact form. That field is typically
auto-populated upon opening a Contact record. The Contact properties
include an EmailOriginalDisplayName which at first I was under teh
impression was the Display As for the email. Instead it is what
appears in the E-mail address field on the Form.

What I need to find out, Is what Property ID (or Hex ID) for the field
that stores the "E-mail Display As". Is it stored somewhere on the
Contact? If I get the Hex ID I can change my MetaData to populate the
field on import.

 

[mbogan]

Actually, I figured out teh problem. There are two Email1DisplayName
in Outlook spelled slightly differently. I was mapping to only one.
Plus, i needed to map to ID-8029 to validate the email 1 address.

EMail1DisplayName
ID= {0420060000000000C000000000000046}0x8084

Email1DisplayName
ID = {0420060000000000C000000000000046}0x8080

Thanks

Matt