How do I prevent a Contact being opened by more than one user?

[Jeff in Hamilton]

How do I prevent a Contact from being opened by more than one user at a time?

Both my assistant and I can open my Contacts for editing in Outlook.
However, Outlook allows for the same Contact to be opened at the same time by
both of us. When the second person attempts to Save|Close the Contact, only
then does an error message occur (offering to duplicate the Contact in the
same folder). The preference is to prevent the second person from openning
the Contact, just like any computer file cannot be opened by two people at
the same time.

Much appreciated if anyone can assist me with this.

 

[Oliver Vukovics [Public Shareware]]

Hi Jeff,

this is not possible.

Everybody with the rights to "read" a contact can open the contact. If I
only need the telephone number to call somebody, it makes no sense that it
would not be allowed for me, only why another person has also open the
contact before me.

You will get a message only if both users change the same contact.

If somebody has the rights to read a contact, it is allowed for him to open
the contact.

You can not limit this.