Database Users

how do i get contacts to show forename / surname

my contacts are displayed surname then forname. Is there a way to change this
Cheers

You can change it in Outlook and on next synchronisation they will change on your PDA as well.

many thanks!
The contact system is really not upto scratch compared to my Nokia 9210

I've found that some are forename, Surname and some are the other way round with no real logic ???

If outlook uses 'lastname, forename' and you add a contact on the MDA 'John Doe' its added as 'John doe', it should have been 'Doe, John' but it doesn't add it that way :roll:

I have a silly way of doing it, but it works
Add contact as you normally would
Copy to sim
Delete contact from phone
go to sim manager
copy contact from sim to phone
tada! John Doe!

Pocket Informant Appointment problem

Wondering if anyone can shed any light on my problem :
I use PI daily for work, adding in (future) clients to visit for the week, but one problem i have is not having a field to add the clients telephone number in the appointments field.
As these are possible future clients, i have no need yet to add them to contacts to retrieve there number, so basically what i am asking is, is there a field to add a telephone number in the appointment secton, or am I forced to add them to contacts first ?
TIA

Any contacts needed for that appointment which are not in your contacts.... I just tend to add the contact in the notes tab for that appointment. If then that contact is needed, then I add them to my contacts.

Is another alternative to create a contacts category "potential clients" or similar as then you can filter them from your normal view of contacts if you wish?
Ed

adding contacts from work number to mobile number? help????

hi,
as i added new contacts from miss call or somewhere else it always adds the number to the work number by defauls than i had to edit the contact from work to mobile as i mostly uses the mobile number and by adding it to the work number messages cant be sent to it, sometime back i seen a post somewhat similar to this, but cant find that now.
so if anyone had done this than show me the path to solve this or change the default values.
cheers

I think u have to change the settings in outlook while activesynced.

i dont use outlook and while sync i never checked for contacts and mails as i backup contacts and mails on my storage card, so there should be another way without outlook, by tweaking some settings may be,
someone knows???????

forms designer for contacts app

does anybody know about a forms designer (like handDBase) but which uses the original contacts database? i would like to create my own mask for searching and adding contacts because poutlook is horrible...
another idea would be to create a complete database app (e.g. handbase) but then it should be able to sync with outlook. did anybody make any experiences here?
thanks for your help

[Q] Exchange Sync Conact File As

I'm using MS Exchange account and after a new contact is created or names of an existing one are changed the "File As" property is changed to LastNameFirstNameMiddleName (without interval or coma). Existing contacts' File As property (set to FirstName LastName) is not respected.
I tried looking through Android's SDK to write a small program to fix this, but couldn't find a way to access the field. It looks like the SDK doesn't know about that kind of field.
The consequences are:
1. Contacts in OWA are not displayed user friendly as Paul Smith Anderson is displayed AndersonPaulSmith?!
2. Birthdays are also added as AndersonPaulSmith - Birthday
Editing contacts in Outlook/OWA leads to another problem - picture size limitation. They scale the contact's picture down to 90x90 or something like that, which on 1080p screen looks... Also changing the File As from within Outlook/OWA removes the contact's birthday from the calendar?!
Is there a workaround for these problems?