Changing required fields for synchronis​ation

Question

Hi Everybody,
I am trying to synchronisize a BlackBerry 8800 with Lotus Notes 8 using Desktop Manager 4.7. Contacts that have all required fields synchronis just fine, however I have a few hundred contacts on the handheld, that only have one of  the required fields (firstname, lastname, corporation) filled out. These shw up in the synclog is "unspecified" and or nt synchronised to the Notes address book. Is there a way to change the setting if a field is required or not?
Any hint is highly appreciated.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards
Tobias

Answer 1

From a philosophy prospective, each Offering should encompass one, and only one, type of need. If someone needs access to the VPN, there should be an offering "I need VPN access" which should ask all the information to deliver VPN access, and that offering
should be tied to a Service Request Template that includes all of the approval (I.E. your manager says you need it for your job) and delivery ( I.E. network security needs to add you to the VPN server) steps that are required to deliver that need. 
based on entirely no data, I hypothesize this question relates to something like a new hire process, where the "need" is defined as "whatever a new person needs", and determining if the VPN justification should be a required question is next to impossible from
that definition.  The root cause fix for this would be a better Service Model where the purpose of the request like this is fully defined (i.e. VPN access is tied to job role, which is known, and therefore the question doesn't need to be asked).  
To your actual question: the out of the box portal doesn't include a method to make the required flag of one question dependent on the answers to another question. a third Party Portal might have this functionality, but I doubt it, since there isn't any
place to configure business rules to support such a system in the offering definition.