Curious whether there’s a preference somewhere I’m missing …
One of my customers has stumbled upon an interesting anomaly.
The manager has their preferences set to display contacts in “firstname - lastname” order. They’ve delegated their contacts to their administrator, who ALSO has set their preferences to “firstname - lastname” order.
However, when the admin adds a contact to the manager’s addresses, it shows up in “lastname - firstname” order.
I can understand why this is - the preference REALLY belongs to the personal address book, not the contacts synched to the mailfile.
But, this is driving the two of them crazy.
Am I missing a setting?
Subject: this will be fixed in Notes 8.5.2
Subject: Delegated Contacts - missing print options
I’ll most likely open a seperate thread, but since we’re on the subject and Debbie is here I thought I’d point out challenges with printing delegated contacts using the normal options in Print Style. Since the exec is not normally going to print her/his own phone list, the assistant needs the option to choose Print Style. Is that in 8.5.2?
Subject: you’ll be happy to know this is also fixed in 8.5.2!
Subject: Delighted to hear - here’s a temporary workaround
Thanks, Debbie.
As a short term fix (and I know this is a serious pain), the admin can add still contacts. The ones added will be in the wrong sort order.
After the contacts have been added, the manager can go into their contacts, choose More >> Preferences and then select the Lastname,Firstname sort order, and be sure to select “Apply format to all entries.” Click OK, and the sort order will change (and, it may take a few moments) - now everything will be wrong.
Then, go back into preferences and set the sort order BACK to Firstname Lastname. Click OK, and it will fix ALL the entries, even the ones that were wrong.
May not be perfect or elegant, but at least it will fix the half one way half the other way problem …