Any ways to go Palm to Outlook without losing custom fields in contacts?

[Julius Mong]

Hi, I've tried to convert my pda phone data from palm desktop to outlook,
however in the contacts some custom fields that I had created in palm
desktop are not carried over to Outlook 2003, I used the method of syncing
with palm desktop then reinstalled palm software to use outlook as the sync
client and then syncing it again with the phone. Most of the data has been
carried over, except custom fields e.g. I have some custom data regarding
completion of contracts, no of properties owned by person etc, but they are
not carried over. Any one done this before?

Thanks,

Julius

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hi, I've tried to convert my pda phone data from palm desktop to
outlook, however in the contacts some custom fields that I had
created in palm desktop are not carried over to Outlook 2003, I used
the method of syncing with palm desktop then reinstalled palm
software to use outlook as the sync client and then syncing it again
with the phone. Most of the data has been carried over, except custom
fields e.g. I have some custom data regarding completion of
contracts, no of properties owned by person etc, but they are not
carried over. Any one done this before?

I don't see how you can expect the standard Outlook forms to know anything
about your custom fields.

 

[Julius Mong]

I don't see how you can expect the standard Outlook forms to know anything
about your custom fields.

Outlook does have custom fields, I just wonder if there's any way at all to
do the conversion other than by hand

Thanks,

Jules

 

[Brian Tillman]

Outlook does have custom fields, I just wonder if there's any way at
all to do the conversion other than by hand

It would be up to your sync software to be able to move the data between the
custom fields on the PDA and in Outlook. Since Outlook itself can't export
or import custom fields, I'd be surprised if sync software does.

 

[Guest]

Actually there is a way to do it. It has been a while (Palm Vx), so I don't
remember exactly how I did it. But it was one of the following:

1. Export from Palm to a csv file, then import to Excel or Access. I
believe custom mapping is then available.
2. 3rd party software like Chapura's Pocket Mirror or Intellisync. (some
versions of Palm PDA's come with a free verison, you may want to upgrade for
advanced functionality
3. If you haven't you could also check out:
http://www.palm.com/us/support/outlooksupport.html they have some free
Oulook Sync software depending on your Palm version.

Regards,
KJM

 

[Brian Tillman]

Actually there is a way to do it. It has been a while (Palm Vx), so
I don't remember exactly how I did it. But it was one of the
following:

1. Export from Palm to a csv file, then import to Excel or Access. I
believe custom mapping is then available.

I don't think Outlook by itself can import custom fields from Access or
Excel, either.

2. 3rd party software like Chapura's Pocket Mirror or Intellisync.
(some versions of Palm PDA's come with a free verison, you may want
to upgrade for advanced functionality
3. If you haven't you could also check out:
http://www.palm.com/us/support/outlooksupport.html they have some
free Oulook Sync software depending on your Palm version.

Exactly what I said: it's up tp the sync software, not Outlook.