Move Contacts into other folder /Rename Field Names

[Guest]

Hallo to you all

I have two problems which I can't solve and also didn't found any solution
in the web:

1. When I move the Contacts from the public folder into my personally folder
I loose the link (association) to all other contacts. It shows me still the
name, but it gives an error message, when I choose it

2. I want to rename the custom fields of a custom form. As I read here it is
not possible to do so. How can I do now a new form with, let's say a field
called "NewFieldName" and get the Data of an old form out of the
"OldFieldName" into this "NewFieldName". Is there a solution without
programming in VBA or is there any program, that I could buy which can manage
this? If no, how would a VBA-Script look like?

If anybody knows a solution I would be very happy

Best Regards
Chris

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

1) Are you talking about links to the moved contact from other items? Or links in the moved contact to other contacts?

2) There is no no-code solution for this. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/convertfields.htm for a sample.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Hallo Sue

Thanks for your answer, I didn't saw it, because the E-Mail Notice didn't
worked. But anyway I was on your site, before I asked the Question and it is
quiet complicated if you don't know how to code in Outlook. In beetween I
searched a long the web ant got via freeware.com to the Claxton Group, which
offers a program called Data Porter, which solves my Problem 2). Karl was
very competent and helpful so I asked him for problem 1).
He wrote me the following: “Broken links is an issue that is problematic for
any product that we are aware of. The reason for this is that the structure
of and key element to this, the "Links Collection", has been kept as a
proprietary format by Microsoft making any kind of "reasonable performance"
solution this next to impossible especially as your contact folder grows in
size. Unfortunately, to release a product that would deal with that would be
"extremely" slow and we (as a vendor) would be held to blame for having an
inferior product. Since this is an issue that is known as a general Outlook
problem - we've opted to not to open ourselves up to that kind of potential
"performance complaint". So thanks very much to Karl for all his support and
thanks to you Sue, that you answered.

Best Regards
Chris