Transfer or copy Business Contact Manager Categories

[Guest]

I had to take Business Contact Manager off one machine and put it on another
machine. I was able to export the contacts and import them on the new
machine but I haven't been able to find out how to transfer the Categories to
the new machine. I really don't want to retype them.

Anyone know how to do this?

 

[Burcu Kinay [MSFT]]

Hi Randy,
Import and Export support moving categories. When you import a BCM record,
it will still have it's category.
But it will not keep it's category color. If you want to keep color, you
need to edit categories in second computer. They should be same as in first
computer. (Let's say you have Red color assigned to Work category in first
computer, You must add Work category with Red color to second computer in
order to see your contacts in Red color.)
Hope this helps

 

[Guest]

Yes, they do. The categories attached to the records I transfered came along
with the export / import operation.

Allow me to clarify a bit. I am trying to determine how to transfer the
list (table) of categories that appear when I am in a Account or Business
contact record and click on the Catagory button. The built-in categories
transfer (because they are built-in). The ones I have added DO NOT transfer.
I have added a Bunch of new catagories and I really don't want to retype
them in because if I type them slightly differently (I may have a space or a
dash between words, etc) when I sort by catagory I will get separate
groupings. I'm trying to avoid that.

How do I transfer the Catagory table that includes the entries I made?