Cannot create Business Contacts after using Customize Current View

[EventHelix.com]

Hi,

I am encountering a pretty serious problem with the Business Contact Manager
in Outlook 2003.

Here is the description and sequence of steps I took:

1. Attempted to customize the current view for "Business Contacts in Business
Contact Manager" in "My Contacts".

2. E-mail column was added and "File As" column was removed.

3. Now I get the following message when I try to view "Business Contacts"
in "My Contacts"

"Unable to display the folder. ORDER by items must appear in the select
list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified"

4. I get the same error message when I user the
Business Tools->Business Contacts menu.

5. In the current state I cannot create a new business contact.

Looks like the customization corrupted the business contacts database.

Has anybody seen the same problem?

Sandeep

 

[EventHelix.com]

Talked to Microsoft Support. They were quite helpful.

They pointed me to the following article:

Q828238 You Can Delete Predefined Fields in Columns and Add Custom
Fields to Columns in the Business Contact Manager Folder

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=828238

Sandeep