include children and children's birthdays in contact details

[Guest]

it would be good to have the ability to include children and children's
birthdays in contact details

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[Karl Timmermans]

Outlook is NOT a relational database - ergo - enabling a "one to many"
relationship (i.e. one contact to many children with details about the
children such as <birthdays>).

While you are asking for children's names and birthday's - other people
would like to see "other" details - we know that by the types of
questions/requests we get all the time. It becomes a "never-ending" process
and at the end of the day - someone will still not be happy no matter what
is available.

Even if MS was to add the facility to add multiple children with birthday's
(which I hope never happens) - what number of children would be the right
number? There is no correct answer and someone will inevitably be unhappy
with any choice (limitation) made. The alterantive is to add so much
overhead for everyone when it reality, it would be a feature used by a very
samll percentage of users.

Karl
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Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0
"Power contact importers for MS Outlook '2000/2003"
http://www.contactgenie.com

 

[Brian Tillman]

it would be good to have the ability to include children and
children's birthdays in contact details

You can certainly add the children's names right now. Open the Contact
record, click All Fields, and choose "Name Fields " in the drop-down.