Sync different contacts?

[Guest DylJones]

Hey all!

I've just had my SPV M5000 through from Orange (free! yay!).

My previous set up was a s follows:

Personal Phone - Nokia 6680

Work Phone - SPV M1000

I have 2 sets of contacts, work ones and personal ones. What I have been able to do until now is use the normal conatcts folder in Outlook for my work contacts - tht sync's straight to the M1000.

For my personal contacts I added a new contacts folder in Outlook and changed the Nokia PC Suite software to sync with that folder instead of the default.

This worked great! I could have seperate contacts but the same sync'd calendar for both phones.

Now, I plan to use the M1000 as my work phone and the M5000 as my personal phone. I've looked all through Activesync but can't find a way to change from the default contacts folder.

Does anyone know if it can be done? I'd rather keep them seperate since between them there's over 200 contacts. If not then I suspect I'll have to combine them and just find some way to filter it.

Thanks for looking! any help is REALLY appreciated!

Dylan

[Guest fraser]

I don't think you can change it, but there's a far better way to do it anyway. Use categories. In Outlook, go to the view menu & select one of the ones that groups by category. Then open a message/contact/calendar item and find the categories area.

Somewhere there will be a mention of a "Master Category List". Go into this an remove the categories you don't use and add some custom ones. Come out of the master list and set the category(ies) for the message. I recommended the "view by" option so that you can now drag and drop the "no category" items into whereever they are to go.

Now all your categories are in one big folder in outlook. You can continue to "view by category" or go back to the way it was. Or create your own view, Outlook is very good at that sort of thing.

Finally in the activesync partnerships, go to the sync settings for contacts (or whatever) and limit by category. Bingo!!

Categories are the usual Outlook way of grouping things. The PPC versions of the e.g. contacts also allow you to edit categories on the move. I've got "Family", "Friends", "Work" and so on. One great thing is that in the contact list, there is a category selection drop-down-list at the top to help you find people.

[Guest chucky.egg]

The M5000 runs on WM5, which requires ActiveSync v4.1, which in turn does NOT let you sync by Catregory anymore

Somebody asked whether the Beta ActiveSync v4.2 puts this feature back, but I dont recall seeing an answer.

You could check in the thread about Beta ActiveSync 4.2

[Guest Wombleuk]

The M5000 runs on WM5, which requires ActiveSync v4.1, which in turn does NOT let you sync by Catregory anymore

Somebody asked whether the Beta ActiveSync v4.2 puts this feature back, but I dont recall seeing an answer.

You could check in the thread about Beta ActiveSync 4.2

No it doesn't !!

;)

[Guest Crudeboy]

I realised there are lesser features as Active Sync is revised... =(

Edited May 5, 2006 by Crudeboy

[Guest fraser]

Hmm, that's a bit lame, glad I'm still on 3.7 but I personally don't filter them anyway. I just use the categories to make it easy to find/group things.

[Guest DylJones]

All contacts combined (235 :S). The only issue I have with filtering is that i have to do it every time i open Contacts.

I realised I normally group my work contacts by company rather than by name which basically does the same. As long as my work contacts have a company name they're kept seperate.

Thanks for the input everyone!