deleting contacts in BCM

[Guest]

Is there any way to set a preference in BCM to verify before performing a
delete on a contact?

 

[Luther]

Is there any way to set a preference in BCM to verify before performing a
delete on a contact?

Not that I'm aware of. There may an option in Outlook.

But any contact you delete is simply moved to the deleted items
folder, and you can always drag it back to its original folder.

 

[Guest]

But any contact you delete is simply moved to the deleted items

folder, and you can always drag it back to its original folder.

Thanks for that tip. I have imported and deleted a couple of times trying
to get things right. Looking behind the scenes (I am a Developer by
profession) I was concerned that the deleted records were still in the
database, thus increasing it's size. Now I can get rid of them

Kevin

 

[Luther]

Thanks for that tip. I have imported and deleted a couple of times trying
to get things right. Looking behind the scenes (I am a Developer by
profession) I was concerned that the deleted records were still in the
database, thus increasing it's size. Now I can get rid of them

Kevin

Deleting them from the Deleting Items folder effectively "hard"
deletes them from the database.

Since you're a dev, I'll point out an exception to that rule. In v3
they added a table to the database that lists the guids of the last
several hundred hard deleted accounts and contacts. I believe this is
for accounting systems that integrate with BCM.

When an accoutning system can't find a record in BCM, it generally
adds that record. By checking the hard deleted list, they can discover
if that record was hard deleted in BCM, and remove it from the
accounting system.