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K750i sync with Outlook - Filter? |
cchrishow
Joined: Feb 25, 2004
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I’ve recently purchased a new K750i and I’m just in the process of setting it up.
Previously I’ve owned the K700 and T610 and I have always had it setup to synchronise my contacts with Outlook. I have over 1500 contacts in Outlook, so I categorise those I want to sync to the phone.
When using the K700 and T610, I used the XTNDConnect software, which had a way of filtering the contacts which were synchronised to the handset. I would filter by category and it worked perfectly.
With the K750i, the software supplied is Sync Station, which appears to have no way of filtering the contacts by category. I’m in the process of downgrading to the XTNDConnect software, to see if this still works, but wondered if anyone else has faced this issue and if so, if you had found a solution?
Many thanks, Chris
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Grimslade
Joined: Jul 25, 2004
Posts: 464
From: London
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There's no good way to do it in the  AFAIK. Your best bet, which isn't very good, is this: Find all the contacts you want to sync with your phone and assign them a category, like "phone." If there are a lot, then it may be easier to pick each one out and drop it into a new, empty folder called "Phone Contacts" (or whatever). Move them, don't copy them. Then, once you have them all in that folder, assign them a category called "Phone." Tell sync station to sync from that folder. After it does, move them back to your Contacts folder in Outlook. Next time you want to sync, just sort by category, select all the "phone" contacts, move them back to the folder, sync, and return them to contacts. Obviously, if you add anyone new to outlook in the meantime that you want synched, you'll have to assign them the "Phone" category, but that's not so bad.
That, at any rate, was the best system I ever devised, though as I said it's clunky. I "only" have 450+ contacts in Outlook, so now with the K750, I can sync them all, so I no longer have to worry about it.
PS - there are some other threads on this if you search around. |
SurreyFox
Joined: Jun 21, 2005
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Sorry about posting a blank message! 
What I wanted to say was that it is a shame that the K750 has packed in so much including a postal address, but that you cannot change the mappings from Outlook for it to use the personal address rather than a business one (or even better have it use both). I'm going to have to make a backup of the contacts I want to sync from Outlook into a new Contacts folder and change all the business addresses to be the personal ones, which is a bit of a faff.
Also, I wonder why the K750 has a field in the contact details for a birthday but does not seem to sync this with the Birthday field of my Outlook contacts.
Shame it doesn't have more customisation for the synching process. Other than that I think it is a fantastic phone. |
cchrishow
Joined: Feb 25, 2004
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I opted to uninstall Sync Station and reinstall XTNDConnect. This has allowed me to continue filtering by category.
It’s working fine.
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SurreyFox
Joined: Jun 21, 2005
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I still have XTNDConnect installed. It does not have the address fields as selectable items on the phone side of the mappings section.
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Grimslade
Joined: Jul 25, 2004
Posts: 464
From: London
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XTND Connect will not allow you to sync all the fields that SyncStation will, but will allow you to filter. You pays your money... | |
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Posted: 2005-06-09 10:32
