Database Users

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

Sending Email to Distribution Lists

Hello fellow users
Is there something like email to "Distribution List" or "Category" that I've assigned a whole bunch of Contacts to??
I have been using my T-Mobile MDA VARIO for several months now but still can't workout if there is a way to simply email using a POP3 email account to more than one recipient.
:?:Are POP3 Email Distribution Lists possible?
thanks for your wise words,

justin.fletcher said:
Hello fellow users
Is there something like email to "Distribution List" or "Category" that I've assigned a whole bunch of Contacts to??
I have been using my T-Mobile MDA VARIO for several months now but still can't workout if there is a way to simply email using a POP3 email account to more than one recipient.
:?:Are POP3 Email Distribution Lists possible?
thanks for your wise words,
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Interesting...I didn't realize the feature was missing until you pointed it out.
Here's a temporary workaround (don't have much time to sit and search for a freeware addon):
1. Create a new contact named as the group name you'd like to use (say "Development Team")
2. Enter all the e-mail addresses for your distribution list within the "e-mail" tag of this new contact, placing a semicolon ( ; ) between all addresses.
3. When you go to create a new email, enter the group name you just created and the email field should automatically fill with all the addressees (I tried with two, there may be a limitation)

glhs509,
Thanks for the TIP.
I've found there is a limit at 247 characters which works out at 6 - 7 email address' for me so not much scope for large distributions.
For more than 247 characters I've ...
1) on my PC created a temporary email to the distribution list
2) Expanded the name to show all email address
3) Copied into notes section of a new contact.
4) on my PPC I can sink the new contact and it just takes a copy and paste of the contact notes into a new email 'To' box.
Not great but a lot better than adding one at a time. So thanks
I would really like to sync my contacts with the distributions in outlook on my PC so if anyone knows how to, please fill us in 

saving a contact to phone from an SMS

morning peoples (or afternoon depending on your worldly location)
I received a text message from my mates new number. The number isn't in my contacts so I want to create one. I click on the number and it says
"this number isn't in your contacts etc etc would you like to create a new one"
so I click yes, then the list of contact appear. I click new contact, and it asks me for outlook contact or sim contact.
I don't use outlook to sync my contacts, and SIM contact doesn't give me all the information (SIM is just a name and number).
so how do I select to save the number to my phone, where I can add all the other relevant information (ringtone, phone number type etc etc)?
thanks

You should save as an Outlook contact, as Pocket Outlook is the default adress register on Windows Mobile devices.
It doesn't matter if you use Outlook on your PC or not...

perhaps but the options presented to me are the same...well..almost...firname last name number....why doesn't it give me the option to supply any other details? ?I have to save it, then go back into it to add any other information.
just annoying is all

why don't u just go to contacts, click on the profile u want to update and when they're details come up, click on menu > edit.
this should take you to a full list of details

because I'm talking about adding a new contact, not updating an existing one

can't add meeting attendees unless they are in your contact list??

Hi,
over the weekend I tried to set up a meeting and invite some attendees. Although the phone allows me to enter the email addresses of the people I want to invite, it wont le me add them unless they are in my contact list. it seems tha entering the addresses is only a 'look up'
this is hugely annoying as I often don't want them as contacts, it's just a one off meeting!.
anyone elses discovered this?

been searching all over the web and it seems that nobody else has even noticed this

While i do understand your frustration, you need to take into account that outlook sends a notice email after you add the attendees. So unless they are your contact list, it wont be able to send them an email. That's why it needs contacts.
For the moment its not possible...

exactly...so to add an attendee I add their email adress...but instead of just using this (like it used to when I had WM6.1) it now only uses the address to search for a match.

[Q] problems with contacts

I cant seem to save a new contact, no matter which way i save it either by adding contacts from a new phone call or entering a new contact, when I first save it, all the previous call numbers from that contact change to the contacts name then within a few minutes it reverts back again and if i search for the new contact it has disappeared.
any help would be appreciated.
Im using the generic contact address book

Did you have the right sync groups selected? when creating a contact you can assign the contact to group. If this group is not synced this will not shown as a new contact on your phone. When the contact is not assigned to group you must select "sync all contacts". this will include also your mail-contacts from google.