Sharing Contacts with Sharepoint

[Robert Kufrin]

I have an outlook 2003 pst file that has both a business address and
home address for each contact. I have attempted to import the contact
information with both addresses and phone numbers into my sharepoint
site, but sharepoint will only take the business address. It imports the
home and business phone numbers, but only the business address.

Is it possible to import both full addresses from Outlook into the
Sharepoint contacts.

Thanks for any help.

Robert Kufrin
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Mike Walsh]

You have multiposted this to both the WSS and the SPS newsgroups as well as
to two outlook newsgroups.

If you have SPS please do not post as well to the WSS newsgroup.

Two outlook groups seems unnecessary too with one of them called .contacts
and you having a contacts question surely you don't need to bother the main
outlook newsgroup as well.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
Please post questions to the newsgroup only.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, and here's why: The address information is exposed by an ActiveX control that ships with Outlook 2003 and installs automatically the first time you use it with a Windows SharePoint Services site. The information that the control makes available for each contact, though, does not include the home address information, only the business address fields. I don't know why they designed it that way. Since you're using the web interface to post here you might want to post a suggestion to Microsoft that they expand the functionality of the control to include home addresses, too.

 

[Bob K]

I finally figured out how to do it using an excel
spreadsheet as a custom list which I imported into
Sharepoint. It worked great.

 

[Bob K]

Sue: If you would like the details I can post them. Thanks
for responding.

Bob Kufrin

 

[Hollis D. Paul]

Sue: If you would like the details I can post them. Thanks
for responding.

Bob, please post them. I have been following the thread to see if it
would make a good entry for my "faq" blog.

Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
(e-mail address removed)
Mukilteo, WA USA

 

[Mike Walsh]

Hi, Hollis.

In WSS: Create + 'Import Spreadsheet' (last in the "Custom List" section)
surely ?

("using an excel spreadsheet as a custom list which I imported into
Sharepoint.")

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland

Sue: If you would like the details I can post them. Thanks
for responding.

Bob, please post them. I have been following the thread to see if it
would make a good entry for my "faq" blog.

Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
(e-mail address removed)
Mukilteo, WA USA

 

[Hollis D. Paul]

In WSS: Create + 'Import Spreadsheet' (last in the "Custom List" section)
surely ?

So, the process has to be Export Contacts to Excel, and Create List + Import
Spreadsheet. A bit of using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat; when it really
should have been done right when they created the control to import the
Contacts directly to Excel. I wonder if the managers who make these
decisions really think that if they just do half the job, then the users
will not insist of getting the whole shebang. They must not have ever
provided support in the publics, no?

Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
(e-mail address removed)
Mukilteo, WA USA

 

[Hollis D. Paul]

import the
Contacts directly to Excel.

That should read " import the Contacts directly to SharePoint."

Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
(e-mail address removed)
Mukilteo, WA USA