Thom:
Well, your requirements are really for MS CRM, not BCM. In MS CRM, you can
add many more than 40 fields and you can assign user access rights. BCM
doesn't work like that -- you will have to move to CRM.
HTH,
Lon
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"Thomanji" <Thomanji[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > Hi,
> We evaluate the Business Contact Manager 2007, it does look and work not
> bad
> but we have some big problems finding standard features. Maybe me look at
> the
> wrong spot, we do hope someone could assist us to find a solution.
> There are 2 things we try to figure out:
>
> 1. We need to assign user access rights that allow us to limit work group
> users to only see specific contacts and functions. For example we need to
> disable the reporting since only the management should see this also there
> should be a way to limit the user to contacts that have a specified
> fields.
> For example we could have a field saying "owner" and than specify a login
> filter to only show the user contacts that have a specified owner key.
> However other users could see all is not access rights limits are
> assigned.
>
> 2. It seems that Business Contact Manager 2007 is limited to 40 user
> defined
> fields, we have at least 90 of them that I need to import. I am amazed
> that
> there is a limit in a modern application like this. Surly there must be a
> way
> to increase this, maybe in the registry or somewhere else. Any tips are
> welcome. We would really like to give this a shot but we are amazed that
> these standard features are not easily found.
>
> Best wishes,
> Thom
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