Attachments in Outlook 2003 Contacts to Business Contacts in BCM

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Chris Street

I use Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager. I have many hundreds
of Contacts (in Contacts, Outlook 2003) that have attachments linked
within the Notes Section. How do I transfer these attachments along
with the Contacts when I save them as Business Contacts within
Business Contact Manager?

When you try to copy Contacts to Business Contacts you get the
message: Can't copy the items. The destination folder does not support
attachments.. therefore the messages containing attachments were
copied to the destination folder without the attachments.

What I think is needed is a means of stripping out the attachments
from the Contacts then automatically creating a file which is linked
to the correct Business Contact.

Chris Street, MegaPixels Ltd
www.datamind.co.uk
 
BCM does not store attachments. Therefore, you would need to save those
attachments as files somewhere, then create a separate history item linking
each attachment with each contact. History items are Outlook journal items
using a custom form, but the exact linking mechanism, which occurs through
the BCM database is not documented. Therefore, at present, there's no
automated way to do this.
 
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