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Contacts - fields missing JohnB 06-16-2008
Posted by JohnB on June 16, 2008, 11:57 am
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 Windows Mobile 5 on a Palm Treo. Activesync 4.2 on my PC.

I noticed that some of my fields in Outlook 2003 don't show up in my
Contacts on my Treo. For example Business Addresses don't show up on the
Treo or, anything in the note section of the Contact in Outlook (not Notes
in Outlook).

And of course, the Settings option for Contacts is Grayed out in ActiveSync.
Is there any way to control this "feature".

TIA



Posted by Ebbe Kristensen on June 17, 2008, 3:26 am
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 JohnB wrote:
> Windows Mobile 5 on a Palm Treo. Activesync 4.2 on my PC.
>
> I noticed that some of my fields in Outlook 2003 don't show up in my
> Contacts on my Treo. For example Business Addresses don't show up on
> the Treo or, anything in the note section of the Contact in Outlook
> (not Notes in Outlook).
>
> And of course, the Settings option for Contacts is Grayed out in
> ActiveSync. Is there any way to control this "feature".


I use Pocket Informant (PI) instead of the built-in
Calendar/Contacts/Tasks/Notes apps. PI can show both work and home address
and notes for a contact. IMHO PI is worth every <insert local currency> you
pay for it.

Ebbe



Posted by Todd Allcock on June 17, 2008, 1:11 pm
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At 17 Jun 2008 09:26:26 +0200 Ebbe Kristensen wrote:

> > Windows Mobile 5 on a Palm Treo. Activesync 4.2 on my PC.
> >
> > I noticed that some of my fields in Outlook 2003 don't show up in my
> > Contacts on my Treo. For example Business Addresses don't show up on
> > the Treo or, anything in the note section of the Contact in Outlook
> > (not Notes in Outlook).
> >
> > And of course, the Settings option for Contacts is Grayed out in
> > ActiveSync. Is there any way to control this "feature".
>
>
> I use Pocket Informant (PI) instead of the built-in
> Calendar/Contacts/Tasks/Notes apps. PI can show both work and home
address
> and notes for a contact. IMHO PI is worth every <insert local currency>
you
> pay for it.

While PI is certainly a powerful program, I'd argue the OP shouldn't need a
third-party solution to get his device to do what it's supposed to do out
of the box!

I suspect the PIM data is corrupted on the device somehow. First I'd try
deleting the partnership, deleting all PIM data from the device and start
over by creating a new partnership and resyncing. If that doesn't work, a
hard reset ("clear storage") is probably in order, unfortunately...



Posted by Chris De Herrera on June 17, 2008, 10:21 pm
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Hi,
Microsoft decided not to offer all the fields for the Contacts to match
Outlook. There is no option to add fields to the existing Contacts
application.


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> At 17 Jun 2008 09:26:26 +0200 Ebbe Kristensen wrote:
>
>> > Windows Mobile 5 on a Palm Treo. Activesync 4.2 on my PC.
>> >
>> > I noticed that some of my fields in Outlook 2003 don't show up in my
>> > Contacts on my Treo. For example Business Addresses don't show up on
>> > the Treo or, anything in the note section of the Contact in Outlook
>> > (not Notes in Outlook).
>> >
>> > And of course, the Settings option for Contacts is Grayed out in
>> > ActiveSync. Is there any way to control this "feature".
>>
>>
>> I use Pocket Informant (PI) instead of the built-in
>> Calendar/Contacts/Tasks/Notes apps. PI can show both work and home
> address
>> and notes for a contact. IMHO PI is worth every <insert local currency>
> you
>> pay for it.
>
> While PI is certainly a powerful program, I'd argue the OP shouldn't need
> a
> third-party solution to get his device to do what it's supposed to do out
> of the box!
>
> I suspect the PIM data is corrupted on the device somehow. First I'd try
> deleting the partnership, deleting all PIM data from the device and start
> over by creating a new partnership and resyncing. If that doesn't work, a
> hard reset ("clear storage") is probably in order, unfortunately...
>
>


Posted by Todd Allcock on June 18, 2008, 10:38 am
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At 17 Jun 2008 19:21:16 -0700 Chris De Herrera wrote:
> Hi,
> Microsoft decided not to offer all the fields for the Contacts to match
> Outlook. There is no option to add fields to the existing Contacts
> application.

Correct, but the OP says that basic included fields aren't synching, like
the "notes" field, or Work address.



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