Sue's on vacation.

#1. Look at the Utilities pages at www.slipstick.com to see what's available
out there, if anything.

#2. If you run that code you get prompted approximately 4K times for the
contact to link to that journal item. Without some cross-reference or
pre-defined linkages already established there really isn't much choice.

#3. If the contact name was in a property in the journal item such as
Mileage, generally unused, then code could read Mileage, look for a
corresponding contact name and then add that contact object to the Links
collection for that journal item.

None of us can answer for what MS features decides to provide for its
applications. Any gaps are filled because the applications are programmable.
MS could never provide every feature, utility and add-on that any arbitrary
person could decide was absolutely essential.

You can find code samples for the Links collection at www.outlookcode.com.
Search there on that term and use the code samples as a starting point for
your efforts. You can then post your code here if you have problems and
someone will probably help you.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Lightjag" wrote in message
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Ok thanks. I have a couple of questions:

OPTION #1:
Is there a 3rd party program that would import the journals (currently in
excel) for me, inorder to avoid writing code? I have limited experiance
with
code writing.

OPTION #2: Links.Add method:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb175245.aspx

I have approx 4k journals, this method appears that it "prompts the user
for
the name of a contact " one at a time.

What would be the procedure for the method:
a) Data in excel. import journals. now they are unlinked.
b) Run code "links.add" method in outlook, what happens next?

OPTION #3: change the mapping Method:
How would this process work?
a) "contact information is imported into a journal property" (not used):
ex/
birthday
b) "can do the import manually": using MSFT import wizard?
c) " write code to iterate the imported items and update each one with the
necessary link(s)." == if possible can you help me out with some code?

P.S. I would of thought MSFT would of made this process (importing linked
Journals) more automatic like with names, numbers and addresses. They
make
it very difficult trying to migrate from someone elses CRM package to
Outlook.