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Michele
I am using Outlook 2007.
The limit of three e-mail addresses for a single contact is by design of the
MAPI component object model so it cannot be (at least in my knowledge)
overridden. (I would be glad to be corrected)
If I have one contact with more than three email addresses I am forced to
create a new contact for him/her with all the same information ( Birthday,
name, surname, mailing addresses, picture, web page and all the other contact
fields ) of the original contact, so that the difference between the two
contacts is only related to the email addresses fields. This is very bad for
many reasons:
First of all it causes a very bad waste of disk space, and second recurring
events like birthday reminders are duplicated.
One can argue that to solve these two problems the duplicated contact has to
contain only the same name and surname and the different email addresses
without all the other contact data so that it would be solved at 99% the
waste of disk space and at 100% the duplicate of birthday reminders. But
this, in my point of view, can't be accepted since contact informations are
to be related also to the duplicated contact for clear and obvious reasons.
So what I am asking here is, given the above limit, if there is a way to
create some relationship between a contact and his/her duplicated contact so
that for the main contact I input all the contact fields data and for the
duplicated contact I input obviously the same name and surname and only the
different email addresses in email addresses fields ( leaving blank all the
other contact fields ), a relationship that makes Outlook understand that all
the contact data of the main contact are to be used also for the duplicated
contact.
Any other ( also very different ) approach to solve this problem are
obviously accepted.
I hope I have been enough clear.
Thanks a lot for any suggestion.
Ciao
The limit of three e-mail addresses for a single contact is by design of the
MAPI component object model so it cannot be (at least in my knowledge)
overridden. (I would be glad to be corrected)
If I have one contact with more than three email addresses I am forced to
create a new contact for him/her with all the same information ( Birthday,
name, surname, mailing addresses, picture, web page and all the other contact
fields ) of the original contact, so that the difference between the two
contacts is only related to the email addresses fields. This is very bad for
many reasons:
First of all it causes a very bad waste of disk space, and second recurring
events like birthday reminders are duplicated.
One can argue that to solve these two problems the duplicated contact has to
contain only the same name and surname and the different email addresses
without all the other contact data so that it would be solved at 99% the
waste of disk space and at 100% the duplicate of birthday reminders. But
this, in my point of view, can't be accepted since contact informations are
to be related also to the duplicated contact for clear and obvious reasons.
So what I am asking here is, given the above limit, if there is a way to
create some relationship between a contact and his/her duplicated contact so
that for the main contact I input all the contact fields data and for the
duplicated contact I input obviously the same name and surname and only the
different email addresses in email addresses fields ( leaving blank all the
other contact fields ), a relationship that makes Outlook understand that all
the contact data of the main contact are to be used also for the duplicated
contact.
Any other ( also very different ) approach to solve this problem are
obviously accepted.
I hope I have been enough clear.
Thanks a lot for any suggestion.
Ciao