Importing Outlook Express Contacts into Phone MGR Pro

[mikedphones]

We have a client with Outlook Express who wishes to export their contact list out and import it into phone manager pro.
The .csv format in Outlook express has too many fields and Phone manager pro only has four. How can this be done. There are 5 or 6 people on site with this request and one of them has over a 1000 contacts. Any ideas? Thanks for your help.

 

[Bas1234]

You can't in PhoneManager Pro, but you can use the import module in the Avaya Manager tool.

Open the Manager > load config, go to Directory add 1 new Name/Number and save it to the IPO.

Then go to File > Import/Export > Export then expport it. It will be saved as csv, open the csv file and you'll see how it exported ( name,number ) paste the 1000 number and import it again.

If this is all to difficult the call you BP and mail them the csv file.

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[mforrence]

With TAPI driver, you may also be able to dial directly from Outlook Express.
Mike

 

[jamie77]

Don't think Outlook Express is TAPI compliant. You could put them into Office Outlook and do this.

Just alter the oulook csv to the fields required so the format is corect and import.

this will put all speed dials in one tab though.

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[mteltech]

Doesn't Outlook Express break the name field (as we see in phone manager pro) into first and last name fields. Also Outlook Express lets you store a bunch of numbers for a single person, I think phone manager pro only lets you do a single number per entry.
TAPI would be nice here but obviously a futile effort. I am not a computer programmer but surely it would not be that hard to write a program to make this work. We are talking about merging a few cells in Excel. The logic required for this is pretty simple, I would assume writing the program to do it would be as well.