Tracking Item History

The Communication History folder provides a place for you to view all the events and items that are linked to accounts, business contacts, and opportunities in your Business Contact Manager database. The Communication History folder is much like the Journal folder in your other Outlook 2007 folders in that it automatically tracks events such as e-mail messages and meetings.

The Communication History folder shows all linked items and is useful when you need a global view of all items. As with other folders, the Communication History folder provides predefined views that you can use to change the way its information is displayed. For example, you can use the Chronological view (the default), shown in Figure 19-31, to see all the messages linked to items in your Business Contact Manager database in chronological order.

The Communication History folder includes a handful of predefined views, including the Chronological view.

Figure 19-31. The Communication History folder includes a handful of predefined views, including the Chronological view.

Other predefined views include the By Linked To, Communication History Item List, and Created By views.

You can also create your own views as needed to organize the folder’s items in other ways. For example, you might create a custom view that shows messages only from a specific sender or that are associated with a particular account.

Note

Chapter 27, explains in detail how to create and use custom views.

The following steps illustrate an example of how to create a view of the Communication History folder that shows all items for a specific account:

  1. Open the Communication History folder and choose View, Current View, Define Views.

  2. In the Custom View Organizer dialog box, click New.

  3. Enter the name Wingtip Toys, choose Table, and click OK.

  4. Click Filter in the Customize View dialog box, and then click the Advanced tab (see Figure 19-32).

    Use the Advanced tab to create a filtered view of the Communication History folder.

    Figure 19-32. Use the Advanced tab to create a filtered view of the Communication History folder.

  5. Click Field, User-Defined Fields In Folder, and ParentDisplayName.

  6. Click in the Value field and type Wingtip Toys, click Add To List, and click OK.

  7. Click OK, and then click Apply View to view all items associated with the Wingtip Toys account.

Note

Because the Communication History folder shows all items by default, it’s not usually the best place to go to find items associated with a particular business contact, account, or opportunity. Although you can create custom views that will locate these items for you, a better approach is to simply open the account, contact, or opportunity, and view the associated items there. Viewing the links from the item’s form saves you the trouble of creating a view to locate the linked items.

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