Overview
System Requirements
Installing
Upgrading
Getting Support
The User Interface
The Toolbar
Configuration
Address Book Management
Receipt Settings
Process Settings
Server administration
File Storage
File Storage Management
The Rules Engine
Rules Interface
Creating Rules
Removing Rules
Mail Types
Using Templates
Object Naming
Exporting & Importing Rules
Purging
Soft Purging
How to set up Purging
Manual Purging
Reporting
The Statistics Report
Summary File
Action Logs
Further Information
File Types
Automating Contact Manager
How Matching works
Automating Address Book         Management
Glossary
 

Object Naming

By default, contact objects are named on the directory using the entry's Alias Name from the address book file. If no Alias Name is present then the Display Name is used instead, If neither of these is present then the entry is not created.

The Object Name option allows the Display Name to be used to name the object instead. The benefit of this is that the Display Name can be formatted in the rule template first, before being used to name the object.

When a rule is created, the Alias Name is automatically selected. This can be left unchanged if it is to be used. To use Display Name, select it from the Object Name drop-down box.

The object will be named according to the option selected.

NOTE: If Alias Name is selected and an entry does not have an Alias Name field, Contact Manager will attempt to use the Display Name.

WARNING: Contact Manager uses the object name when matching entries to existing objects. If this option is changed, entries already imported through Contact Manager may have a different object name to that being imported and hence will no longer be matched. These entries will then be marked as duplicate as the email address already exists on the directory.