Again to clarify, I have lost no information in my 'act of importing'.
All the fields are intact, including the birthday fields. My problem is
that the birthdays do not show up in the calendar, as should be the case
(
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC060823511033)
As for your comment on Palm synchronizing with Outlook, it was you who
actually implied that it could be done. The only way I knew of
transferring my Palm contacts to my Oultook contacts was via importing
via CSV (I believe that is why this function is there in the first
place). Can you point me to the posts in the group which tell me how
importing from CSV destroys the connection between the Outlook contacts
and calendar?
I still believe that this is a bug that should be fixed, unless you show
me documentation from Microsoft that shows that this is working as
designed.
Finally, I need more clarity on your suggestion: "copy it to a PST file
then open that PST file in the another installation".
You will find countless posts in this group where we list all the
information that is lost by importing.
We would have no idea whether and how your Palm synchronizes with
Outlook. You'll need to ask Palm. ActivSync is for use with Pocket
PC's.
The way to transfer data from your mailbox would be to copy it to a PST
file then open that PST file in the another installation. Just make
sure you don't export or import, or you'll lose all connections again.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Thank you for the reply. Can you please tell me where the advise
against importing is documented?
Does this mean that importing has now permanently destroyed all my
connections between my calendar and address book and there is no way
to fix it? May I suggest that we get over the issue of importing, I
had explained earlier that I had imported my data primarily because I
did not know that I can synchronize my Palm m505 with Outlook.
Putting a bit of thought into this scenario now, it is my
understanding that the way to synchronize a Palm device with Outlook
is via ActiveSync. Whilst the new Palm devices has support for
ActiveSync, my old m505 does not support this. Am I missing something
here or may I safely conclude that my m505 may not be able to
synchronize with Outlook?
Anyway, perhaps another 'perspective' may help as the act of importing
may be muddling the real issue. Assuming that the act of importing
did not permanently destroy connections (which is my question above),
will the act of copying new contacts from other PSTs into my mailbox
establish connections for the new contacts that are copied (this is
not importing, but simply copying between PST and mailbox). If so,
will the workaround of copying my contacts in my Mailbox to an
external PST and copying them back solve my problem?
I know of no way and no need to report it. It's already well known and
well documented behavior and always has been in Outlook.
It's one of the reasons we always advise against importing whenever
possible.
Why you had to import is unclear to me.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
In my opinion, this is a 'bug' but would like to validate with you.
If you agree, would you know the process as to how I can report this
bug and get it fixed. If not, can you suggest a particular
programming group I can refer to?
Thanks.
I don't know of any way to re-establish connections automatically.
There might be a way to do so with code, so you could ask in a
programming group.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Yes, if I manually open a contact record, 'alter' the birthday
field or anything so that the system detects a change and save the
record, that particular record will have a calendar entry.
However, I do not want to do this for all of my 2000+ contacts!
Is there a way or workaround that I can employ? Can I copy the
contacts into a PST and then copy back into my mailbox contacts?
message I know of no way to do so automatically.
If you just open a Contact Record in question and save it, do the
dates not show up on the calendar then?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
To be honest, I did not know that I could synchronize my Palm
device to Outlook (I was using a Palm m505 by the way).
Anyway, since I have already done the import via CSV, is there a
way for me re-establish the 'connections' such that my contacts'
birthdays and anniversaries are shown in my Calendar? If none,
can anyone suggest a third-party software that can help me do
this?
message Outlook maintains many connections among Outlook Items. That's
how it derives views like Activities, Journal, and the
automatic display of Contact's birthdays and anniversaries in
the Calendar.
All connections are lost whenever you import Outlook data.
My question was why you had to import Outlook data. Palm is
able to synchronize Outlook data.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Sorry for not being clear. I had to export my contacts from
Palm Desktop to a CSV file, and then import the CSV file into
Outlook 2003.
Can you clarify what you mean by 'connections'? Is there a
'connection' established between the calendar and address book
to reflect the birthday entries in the address book as a
calendar entry?
message One of the many well documented limitations of importing. All
connections are lost.
Why was it necessary for you to use an intermediary format to
transfer these Contacts? Could you not synchronize them?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Dindo Fernando" <
[email protected]>
wrote in message
I've recently migrated my contacts from Palm Desktop to
Outlook 2003 by first
exporting to a CSV file and then importing into Outlook. I
noticed that not
all of my contacts with entries in the birthday field showed
up in my Outlook
calendar.
My first thought was the formatting (missing year) was the
problem, so I bit
the bullet and put in the year for those contacts without
year entries for
their birthdays in the CSV files and re-imported. However
this did not fix
the problem.
Anyone have any ideas on what I did wrong or how I can fix
this problem?
