Linking or Synchronizing contacts in different OL Contacts folders

Win XP HE, SP1
OL 2002 SP3
Follw-Up to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

Hi,
Is there a way to sycn or link contacts that appear in different Contacts
folders in OL 2002 (folders and sub-folders) so that when I edit one it will
automatically edit the same contact in the other folder or sub/folder?
Tx,
S

If these Contacts are linked to each other by the Contacts button and field
at the bottom of the form, then yes you have a valid hook for updating the
related Contact when the parent is changed.

To do so, you'd need to use either:

1) A custom Contact form. Add code in the Item_Write event to detect a
change, and use the ContactItem.Links collection to obtain object references
to linked Contacts that you can instantiate and update with related changes.

2) Use a catch-all Contact wrapper class to do the same thing without a
custom form, by using VBA events and properties. My article here (Getting a
Handle on Your E-mails with VBA:
http://blogs.officezealot.com/legau...icles/2224.aspx) illustrates how
you can do this with MailItems, but the technique can be easily adapted for
any Outlook item.

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"saturnin02" wrote:

> Win XP HE, SP1
> OL 2002 SP3
> Follw-Up to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
>
> Hi,
> Is there a way to sycn or link contacts that appear in different Contacts
> folders in OL 2002 (folders and sub-folders) so that when I edit one it will
> automatically edit the same contact in the other folder or sub/folder?
> Tx,
> S
>
>
>

Eric,
Thanks for the advice.
I have looked at the links u provided but it looks a bit beyond my skill
level....
S
Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
> If these Contacts are linked to each other by the Contacts button and
> field at the bottom of the form, then yes you have a valid hook for
> updating the related Contact when the parent is changed.
>
> To do so, you'd need to use either:
>
> 1) A custom Contact form. Add code in the Item_Write event to detect a
> change, and use the ContactItem.Links collection to obtain object
> references to linked Contacts that you can instantiate and update with
> related changes.
>
> 2) Use a catch-all Contact wrapper class to do the same thing without a
> custom form, by using VBA events and properties. My article here
> (Getting a Handle on Your E-mails with VBA:
> http://blogs.officezealot.com/legau...icles/2224.aspx) illustrates how
> you can do this with MailItems, but the technique can be easily adapted
> for any Outlook item.
>
>
>> Win XP HE, SP1
>> OL 2002 SP3
>> Follw-Up to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
>>
>> Hi,
>> Is there a way to sycn or link contacts that appear in different Contacts
>> folders in OL 2002 (folders and sub-folders) so that when I edit one it
>> will automatically edit the same contact in the other folder or
>> sub/folder?
>> Tx,
>> S