Address Book Smart Groups and Custom Fields

Anyone have issues syncing Smart Groups in Address Book? Seems like an awful waste of resources if we cannot keep that synced between MobileMe, our Mac/PC and iPhone.
Also, same issue with custom fields I've created for certain contacts. For example, I've created hours of operation for certain businesses. These fields sync into my contacts in MobileMe but it's not pushed to my iPhone. Again, such a waste to have information that cannot be maintained.

I have been advised by the .Mac team that Address Book Smart Groups cannot be synched between two (or more) computers using .Mac

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Why Address Book Smart Group Doesn't Work?

I'm unable to find a solution to, or explination for, the following problem with Address Book and Smart Folders.
I added a custom date field for my contacts.
Set the date for one year and five days ago.
Created Smart folder with condition:
custom date 'is not within' one year.
Well, my contact I created with custom date of one year and five days ago did not appear in the smart group I created.
But it does appear in a smart group with condition 'is within' one month.
Seems that the Smart Group is ignoring the year. Doesn't seem very smart to me, lol.
Any advice on what is going on, or how to fix it would be greatly appreciated. I've spent hours looking for answers online and haven't found anything. Thanks in advance for your help.
tags: date field, date conditions, errors, problems,

Hi The Zack,
In case you think you are crazy, I can confirm that in this area you are not. I just switched from years of PC drudgery to the the new Mac religion. I even switched all my email/address/calendar stuff to pure Apple. Some bumps and hiccups, but still I guess the real test is when I log back onto my old PC I feel like I am watching a rerun of a black and white sitcom.
I digress. On of my hiccups is exactly the same as yours. Address Book is always able to search. It seems a good number of the names in my address book can not be found by typing in any part of their information in the search box. I could not fix this by duplicating the address entry, but I could get it work by hand typing in a new duplicate address entry. I am hoping you and Barry discover a cleaner solution to this.
Thx, Kmon23

Address Book smart groups - can't use job title in criteria?

Trying to create a smart group in Address Book. One of the search criteria I want to use is based on information I am entering into the Job Title field. However, the Job Title field is not one of the options that is available in the drop down menu. I'm using the Job Title menu on at least 12 of the cards in my address book.
Suggestions?

sorry, what you see in the smart group parameters is what you get. as something of a workaround you can copy the job titles into the Note filed and use that in the smart group.

Address Book Smart Group question

Hello all,
I want to create a Smart Group in Address Book that compiles people according to their job title.
For example a group of everyone whose job title is 'Manager', i.e. Job Title contains Manager. But for some reason Job Title is not in the list of options when creating a Smart Group.
Is there a way to make it work?
Also, (a question for all the Snow Leopard users) is the option for Job Title there in OSX 10.6?
I'm using Tiger 10.4.11.
Thanks all.

There is no such field for Job Title by default. If you select the Add Field item from the Card menu you can add that field to a card. However, I do not see Job Title as a search field for a Smart Group. I assume this is a bug which you can report here: Feedback.

Address Book: smart group conflict

I created a smart group in Address Book with some flawed logic and it rendered my Address Book unusable. When I launch the app, all I get is a spinning rainbow wheel, then the app crashes. I am still learning my way around the mac, so I'm looking for some advice here.
So here's my big question: Is there some way for me to delete this smart group without launching the app? I believe the app has gotten itself into a logical infinite loop when trying to build this group. If I remove the group, I believe I can get the app to work again.
If there isn't a way, can someone offer another solution?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Er, this is the correct thread: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7515454#7515454

How to access Address Books "Smart Groups" on iPhone ?

Address Book on the Mac allows for the creation of both Groups and Smart Groups.
Although my Groups show up fine on the iPhone, the Smart Groups do not.
How can I access my Smart Groups on the iPhone?
Thank you.

Unfortunately, the iPhone does not sync SmartGroups from the MacOS X Address Book, at this time. Only regular groups.

Address Book/iPhone Sync of custom fields

Why doesn't my iPod Touch (which is all set up to sync with my Mobile Me account) sync the custom fields that are set up in my Address Book?
They show up when I log onto Me.com and look in the Address Book from online. So I know that the Mobile Me "cloud" is accepting the custom fields. Why doesn't my iPod Touch sync them? All the other fields sync up just fine.

Closely related question:
The "Related Names" field has always been available in the computer version of Address Book. (Spouse, Child, Assistant, Parent, etc.) This is a VERY useful field, and its absence in the iPhone version of the application is extremely annoying. In fact, it would be even more useful on the phone than on the computer. (e.g., I'm talking to someone and I can't remember his wife's name, so I pull out my iPhone to look this up -- AND IT'S NOT THERE BECAUSE THE FIELD IS NOT AVAILABLE ON THE iPHONE!) And as you mentioned, it's one of the fields that DO appear in the online cloud version of MobileMe Contacts.
I cannot imagine any valid reason for this not having been included. There are lots of similar fields that do appear on the iPhone that have multiple choices for the label (phone, email, etc. all provide a drop-down choice as to the label, just like the related names field).
So, Apple People if you are listening: Was this omission simply an unfortunate oversight? Are there any plans to fix this? I keep waiting for such an obvious omission to be fixed with each iPhone software update, but this has not happened.
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Address book smart groups not syncing

I'm using a 3G iPhone, Macbook Pro and MobileMe. Everything is pretty much working ok, except my Address Book's smart groups don't sync to MobileMe.
My standard (non-smart) contact groups - the ones created with the + button on the bottom-left of Address Book - sync just fine, but smart groups don't. This is a real nuisance as I rely on smart groups to keep track of certain sets of contacts. Anybody got any ideas please?

Sorry to nudge, but anyone any thoughts on this?

MRP Generated production orders greys out Sales Order and Customer fields

Hi there,
The MRP generated production orders greys out the Sales Order and Customer fields for some reasons. These fields are really important as they link the production order to the sales order and the customer's purchase order. Could the SAP team please fix this or advise alternative way of getting the sales order and customer info on production order? Thanks.

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Mail Group addresses not the same as Address Book contact group addresses.

A group in my Address Book does not show up in my Mail address book the same. The Mail addresses for my group includes ALL my contacts. How do we fix this problem? I am afraid to send a group e-mail in case it goes to everyone else in my address book. We set up the group in the address book via drag and drop.

That's what I thought.... Although when I log on to Mobile Me through the internet the sender's name there appears just like it does in my address book, so I thought there would be a way to set it in mail.

Only want2use iCal+Address book with iSynch and Memos+Tasks with Palm T/X

I was using Tungsten T2 and isync happily. I was using isync to use the address book and iCal and when I synched it also synched the palm info in the Calendar and address book in my Palm desktop. The memos and tasks in Palm desktop also worked properly.
I upgraded my palm to T/X and have had many problems with deletion of categories on the handheld, duplication of task and diary entries, address entries with weird symbols added that need to be deleted, desktop memos and tasks not updating. iCal seemed to work OK but the palm desktop calendar did not display any future entries. Is this normal.
I removed isync and after resorting everything on the device - enabled all conduits for palm and resynced. So now everything seems to work properly.
My main questions are: what did I do wrong for this to happen which led to me spending hours sorting everything out on the palm device manually?
And: Is there a way to keep everything synching on the palm device AND iCal and address book for palm?
And: If not: Is there a way to use iCal and address book for mac AND keep you tasks and memos synching on the palm desktop? As I prefer the palm software for tasks as I have several categories for my tasks and do not allocate tasks on given days.
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Starting with your last question about first synchronizing with the Palm Desktop calendar and then later with the Mark/Space Events conduit, the answer is no. Your first synchronization with any of the three Mark/Space conduits—whether one, a pair or the more conventional all three—requires that you overwrite the handheld with that data type using that Mark/Space conduit.
You should read this article about the limitations between the display and transfer of calendar events between Palm devices and iCal:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93172
Understanding those limitations, you should selectively 'fix' the events in iCal so that they are represented properly in iCal. You will have to live with the limitations of such event display on your Palm. If you 'fix' them on your Palm, you will only create additional issues when they are synchronized with iCal using either iSync or the Missing Sync.
Old repeating events can be 'rescheduled' in iCal by selecting the event and changing the end date, or they can be deleted, though that will result in their deletion from your Palm device. That's one reason that it is important to take that last 'snapshot' with the Palm Desktop, so that you can refer to historic data if you need to.
It's also important to think about why you would want to carry possibly hundreds of aged events around in the Palm of your hand. Realistically, why would you want handheld access to data older than say, one year? After installing the Missing Sync, you can double-click on the Mark/Space Events conduit and optionally limit the transfer of events from iCal to your handheld. You simply select the drop-down menu labeled Ignore desktop events older than: and choose from an interval of 1, 2, 4 or 8 weeks, 6 months or 1 year, instead of the default Sync All option.
That technique is another method to deal with historic data, because the 'misrepresented' events older than will not be transfered from iCal to your handheld even during that initial synchronization where your handheld data is overwritten, if you select one of those delimiters.
Mark/Space recognizes groups and categories in iCal and the Address Book when using a Palm OS 5 or later device which supports them. iSync ignores them, because groups and categories are not mapped in the iSync Palm Conduit.

MRP - Sales order and customer fields grey-out

Hi there,
The Sales order and customer fields are grey-out for all MRP generated production orders. Can the SAP programmers please get this fixed? It should either read in the sales order number and the customer number or allow user to type in the sales order, just like the manually created production order.
cheers

Hello Gordon,
If production is make-to-order rather than make-to-stock, the MRP should read in the sales order number and the customer, since it is specific to the sales order. Even for make-to-stock production, where it cannot read in the specific sales order number, it should at least not grey out the field, don't you think so? By greying out the field, users are not allowed to type in the sales order number even when the production order directly relates to a particular sales order. As such, we are not able to link it back to the sales order where other info such as customer's purchase order, etc... can be found.
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Add field group and Logical field group for ANLU

Hi all,
On my project, the table ANLU is containing many specifics fields.
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On the GGB0, Asset Accounting / master data, the check point includes the ANLU on the table fields. But, once my rule created, when I want to activate it on the TCODE OACV, the field group proposed don't include data from ANLU (only ANLA and ANLB)
I found out the TCODE OAVM listing all different field linked to the field group. Does it possible to manage this view ?
please help me !!

Hi Rob,
Can you tell me how can i solve this issue.
Runtime Errors         MOVE_TO_LIT_NOTALLOWED
Date and Time          09/11/2007 18:11:01
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I have a scenario to transfer SRM Line item condition types and few custom fields to ECC.
I have found the following things but structure 'CI_EKPODB' does not exists in ECC.
I am using 'SRM 5.00' and 'SAP ECC 6.0'.
NOTE: I have to transfer condition records when PO is getting created / modified.
1) Earlier I was planning to use BADI 'BBP_CREATE_BE_PO_NEW' in SRM and this will transfer the data to ECC in case of PO
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But i am unable to implement the same, whenever i create implementation when i click 'Activate' its getting activate then after few seconds its getting deactivate, i think this is because this BADI is not allowed for multiple use and SAP has already made one implementation on the same.
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i need to modify the structures and pass all the custom fields (z-fields) - (CI_EKPODB but does not exists kindly suggest) as data.
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Expecting quick reply from your end.
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Naresh,
Thanks for quick response.
My concern is this BADI 'BBP_CREATE_BE_PO_NEW' will trigger only in case of creation, not when PO is changes.
I have to transfer condition types and custom fields to ECC in both the case (create / change)
If i have to do this only in case of creation then i can pass Condition types / custom fields then i can use parameter 'CS_PO1_DOCUMENT' from method 'FILL_PO_INTERFACE1'.
this parameter contains 'IT_POCOND', 'IT_POCONDX' and 'IT_EXTENSIONIN' as parameter so my problem will be solved.
But i dont think this will trigger in both the cases and 2nd thing i cann't implement the BADI since its not marked for multiple use so i am unable to implement the same.
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Once again thanks for your reply.
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Customer Groups and Customer Credit Groups

Hello
I was going through the documentation for Credit Management, but I was confused on what the difference was between customer groups and customer CREDIT Groups.. both of them sort of have the same definition, then what is the difference ?
Please help me out.
Regards,

Hi Raj,
For your info :
The <b>credit group</b> groups together different business transactions which should be dealt with in the same manner with regard to the credit check.
You enter the credit groups when you configure the sales document types for credit management and define the automatic credit check.
Default settings
The following credit groups are contained in the standard SAP R/3 System:
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Actions
1. Check whether you can use the credit groups in the standard system.
2. If you need to create new credit groups, enter an alphanumeric key with two characters and a descripion for the credit group.
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