I created a custom form for Business Contact Manager (2003) - Account to
store additional information for our accounts. Now the custom form no longer
appears. I believe I erroneously deleted this form when I cleared *.tmp
files as I've found a reference to a file called fs7.tmp.

Is the custom information we stored in these fields now gone or is it stored
in the bcm database? I assume I will have to create a new custom form again,
but I need the information stored in those fields. Can I get to this
information?

As far as i am aware BCM forms cannot be customized and if it being
considered in upcoming verision of BCM v3.If you have any additional info on
how this can be done,would be great if you could post it in the news group
might help other users.

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With Regards

Raul Thomas
"kenjohnson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:80F9872A-C71E-4F9A-91ED-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I created a custom form for Business Contact Manager (2003) - Account to
> store additional information for our accounts. Now the custom form no
> longer
> appears. I believe I erroneously deleted this form when I cleared *.tmp
> files as I've found a reference to a file called fs7.tmp.
>
> Is the custom information we stored in these fields now gone or is it
> stored
> in the bcm database? I assume I will have to create a new custom form
> again,
> but I need the information stored in those fields. Can I get to this
> information?

i have read all the 'no customize' threads.... but i WAS able to, and have
been using the customized form for ... two years perhaps? i was able to see
the data recorded using the custom form. however, for some reason now i
cannot load the form, it has simply disappeared. i just updated office 2003
online, perhaps my 'update' removed the custom form?

anyone else have an answer regarding WHERE the data is stored?

"Raul" wrote:

> As far as i am aware BCM forms cannot be customized and if it being
> considered in upcoming verision of BCM v3.If you have any additional info on
> how this can be done,would be great if you could post it in the news group
> might help other users.
>
> --
> With Regards
>
> Raul Thomas
> "kenjohnson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:80F9872A-C71E-4F9A-91ED-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I created a custom form for Business Contact Manager (2003) - Account to
> > store additional information for our accounts. Now the custom form no
> > longer
> > appears. I believe I erroneously deleted this form when I cleared *.tmp
> > files as I've found a reference to a file called fs7.tmp.
> >
> > Is the custom information we stored in these fields now gone or is it
> > stored
> > in the bcm database? I assume I will have to create a new custom form
> > again,
> > but I need the information stored in those fields. Can I get to this
> > information?
>
>
>

All data in Outlook at stored as MAPI properties.

For example, when the user saves a Business Contact, Outlook asks the
BCM MAPI store to save a collection of MAPI properties. The values of
the properties BCM cares about are stored in individual columns in the
BCM tables. All the other properities are stored as a "blob" in another
BCM table. When Outlook opens that Contact in a form, Outlook asks the
MAPI store for the collection of MAPI properties. BCM fetches the
properties from the tables and the blob, and hands it to Outlook, which
in turn sets the values of the controls on the form.

This pattern is similar to how data is usually stored in PST files and
Exchange. Any property BCM doesn't know about (e.g. a custom field you
add to a form) is stored in that blob I mentioned. You can observe this
going on if you monitor the data flows between BCM and its database.

What probably happened to your form is probably that it got corrupted
by a bug in Outlook. Clearing the form cache should resolve that
problem.That bug is also supposed to be fixed in an Outlook update.

The data in BCM is stored in the form of tables in the MSDE (Trimmed Down
version of Sql 2000 ) you can access the same provided you have SQL
enterprise manager (Comes with SQL 2000)
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With Regards

Raul Thomas
"kenjohnson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:74E33A8B-094B-4E6F-B034-(E-Mail Removed)...
>i have read all the 'no customize' threads.... but i WAS able to, and have
> been using the customized form for ... two years perhaps? i was able to
> see
> the data recorded using the custom form. however, for some reason now i
> cannot load the form, it has simply disappeared. i just updated office
> 2003
> online, perhaps my 'update' removed the custom form?
>
> anyone else have an answer regarding WHERE the data is stored?
>
> "Raul" wrote:
>
>> As far as i am aware BCM forms cannot be customized and if it being
>> considered in upcoming verision of BCM v3.If you have any additional info
>> on
>> how this can be done,would be great if you could post it in the news
>> group
>> might help other users.
>>
>> --
>> With Regards
>>
>> Raul Thomas
>> "kenjohnson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:80F9872A-C71E-4F9A-91ED-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I created a custom form for Business Contact Manager (2003) - Account to
>> > store additional information for our accounts. Now the custom form no
>> > longer
>> > appears. I believe I erroneously deleted this form when I cleared
>> > *.tmp
>> > files as I've found a reference to a file called fs7.tmp.
>> >
>> > Is the custom information we stored in these fields now gone or is it
>> > stored
>> > in the bcm database? I assume I will have to create a new custom form
>> > again,
>> > but I need the information stored in those fields. Can I get to this
>> > information?
>>
>>
>>