40 Field Limit

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Candyman

We are considering moving from Act! to BCM. In fact, we'd love to. But the
40 user-defined field limit is a problem. Are there any workaround? Any
possibility this will change in the future?

-Thanks,
Mark
 
Candyman:

Your best bet, albeit expensive, is to pay www.act-to-bcm.com to convert
your database. We just finished a conversion with them and had them do a
concatenation of the extra data fields from ACT into the Comments field on
the Details page in a BCM Contact. They put the field name, an equal sign,
and the value in the field. Since BCM searches on the Comments field, it's
a way to get the data into BCM and find it later. It's not a real field,
however -- those are limited to 40 per record type.

If you're like many ACT users, you end up with lots of fields because you
were trying to track multiple records of data in an ACT contact record --
like having 5 sets of 5 fields each to track kid's names, hobbies, et al.
Did you do that? If so, you could use BCM's Opportunity or Business Project
records to create a one-to-many relationship.

HTH,
Lon

___________________________________________________________
Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
(e-mail address removed)
Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager
www.pinpointtools.com
 
Candyman:

Your best bet, albeit expensive, is to paywww.act-to-bcm.comto convert
your database.  We just finished a conversion with them and had them do a
concatenation of the extra data fields from ACT into the Comments field on
the Details page in a BCM Contact.  They put the field name, an equal sign,
and the value in the field.  Since BCM searches on the Comments field, it's
a way to get the data into BCM and find it later.  It's not a real field,
however -- those are limited to 40 per record type.

If you're like many ACT users, you end up with lots of fields because you
were trying to track multiple records of data in an ACT contact record --  
like having 5 sets of 5 fields each to track kid's names, hobbies, et al.
Did you do that?  If so, you could use BCM's Opportunity or Business Project
records to create a one-to-many relationship.

HTH,
Lon

___________________________________________________________
Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
(e-mail address removed)
Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook:  Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Managerwww.pinpointtools.com







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And yes, this limit will change. In the next version, we'll increase
the number of custom fields significantly.

Chris
 
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