BCM2007 : Parenting category from Account to Linked Contact? "Guzun, Alex" <alex> 2/7/2007 8:49:51 PM Hi, please could some one of you tell me how could I implement parenting function for category from Account to Contact within Account? Build in function, VB script... anything For example: I already have over 1000 bcm contacts and over 300 bcm accounts. Deployment of BCM is based on my main SQL2005 server so users could connect to db from anywhere if he/she is granted to. Ok,.. I'm creating an account an give it 3 custom Category (btw is it possible to create a custom Category list and distribute it all over my domain to use them both in Outlook and BCM 2007?). Within an account I create a new contact, or I create a contact and later link it to an existing account witch containt those 3 custom category. All I want is that this newly created contact will acquire all those category account has. Or if I'll add another new category to account and all relevant linked contact will be updated with those category list. Can't imagine to do it all by hand :( Thank you in advance

Re: BCM2007 : Parenting category from Account to Linked Contact? "Mukesh Agarwal [MSFT]" <mukeshag[ at ]online.microsoft.com> 2/7/2007 9:36:14 PM It is possible to do this through VB code. It will require familiarity with Outlook programming. We have published a developer guide at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5B847E87-5736-4511-A7DE-9D8DC91D7AE2&displaylang=en that explains how you can access and modify business contact data through Outlook object model. -- Mukesh Agarwal [MSFT] Visit team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights "Guzun, Alex" <alex> wrote in message news:%23dgpMpvSHHA.488[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > please could some one of you tell me how could I implement parenting > function for category from Account to Contact within Account? Build in > function, VB script... anything > > For example: I already have over 1000 bcm contacts and over 300 bcm > accounts. Deployment of BCM is based on my main SQL2005 server so users > could connect to db from anywhere if he/she is granted to. Ok,.. I'm > creating an account an give it 3 custom Category (btw is it possible to > create a custom Category list and distribute it all over my domain to use > them both in Outlook and BCM 2007?). Within an account I create a new > contact, or I create a contact and later link it to an existing account > witch containt those 3 custom category. All I want is that this newly > created contact will acquire all those category account has. Or if I'll > add another new category to account and all relevant linked contact will > be updated with those category list. > > Can't imagine to do it all by hand :( > > Thank you in advance

Re: BCM2007 : Parenting category from Account to Linked Contact? "Guzun, Alex" <alex> 2/7/2007 10:42:49 PM Thank you for a quick reply Hope I'll not the one asking about that functionality :( Maybe someone made something like this? "Mukesh Agarwal [MSFT]" <mukeshag[ at ]online.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:uzWl$$vSHHA.5100[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > It is possible to do this through VB code. It will require familiarity > with Outlook programming. We have published a developer guide at > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5B847E87-5736-4511-A7DE-9D8DC91D7AE2&displaylang=en > that explains how you can access and modify business contact data through > Outlook object model. > > > -- > Mukesh Agarwal [MSFT] > Visit team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights > "Guzun, Alex" <alex> wrote in message > news:%23dgpMpvSHHA.488[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Hi, >> >> please could some one of you tell me how could I implement parenting >> function for category from Account to Contact within Account? Build in >> function, VB script... anything >> >> For example: I already have over 1000 bcm contacts and over 300 bcm >> accounts. Deployment of BCM is based on my main SQL2005 server so users >> could connect to db from anywhere if he/she is granted to. Ok,.. I'm >> creating an account an give it 3 custom Category (btw is it possible to >> create a custom Category list and distribute it all over my domain to use >> them both in Outlook and BCM 2007?). Within an account I create a new >> contact, or I create a contact and later link it to an existing account >> witch containt those 3 custom category. All I want is that this newly >> created contact will acquire all those category account has. Or if I'll >> add another new category to account and all relevant linked contact will >> be updated with those category list. >> >> Can't imagine to do it all by hand :( >> >> Thank you in advance >