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It would be nice to have a few more sort options.

Try the same solution I offered here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21545890#21545890

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How to Control the Sorting Order of iPhone Contacts from Outlook?

In a series of editing steps we've loaded ca. 1,900 personal and business contacts from Outlook into a 1st gen iPhone with 2.0.1 software on it. To our surprise we found that while most of the entries were listed and sorted by company, certain entries were listed and sorted by the person's name. It looked random and there didn't seem to be any way to control it on the iPhone.
While troubleshooting the problem we synced up the iPhone with an empty Address Book on a MacBook Pro and found that the sort order flag was indeed set differently on these entries. When we changed the sorting flag of a contact in the Mac's Address Book to "Company" it also changed on the iPhone after the next sync.
Problem: In our business environment it is impossible to switch to Macs for contact administration. We need to do it from Outlook. This is one of several features needed for the adoption of iPhones.
Question: Is there a way to control this flag on the individual iPhone contact entries from Outlook Contacts?

Well, I think we figured it out.
Outlook doesn't offer a sorting flag on person or company name. Instead it uses a separate "File As" string. The problem with our contacts was that this "File As" string was frequently edited to be something else than exactly the personal or company name, e.g. it was set to an abbreviated company name. Once we set the "File As" to any of the defaults offered, i.e. person or company name, the sorting flag in iPhone was properly set through the synchronization.
Obviously, the application logic compares the content of these fields in Outlook and decides how to set the flag. If it can't find the company name in "File As" it defaults to person.
This was an expensive holdup for us. It cost us 2 man days to figure it out. Is there any place where such application logic is described?

How can I view or sort or group my CONTACT GROUPS together in Outlook 2010?

How can I view (in my contacts list or address book) or sort/group my CONTACT GROUPS together in Outlook 2010, separately from the individual contacts?

In the Contact folder, use a custom view that shows only Contact groups. Create the filter on the filter dialog's Advanced tab -
Message Class contains IPM.DistList
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How do I alphabetically sort people in a contact list?

I created a contact list of about 50 people. Their information was added at different times. It appears that every-time I added a contact it went to the end of the list. Is there a way to take the completed list and arrange it alphabetically by last name?

Address Book -> Preferences -> General, use the Sort By pop-up.

Can't sort custom labels in Contacts

It used to be that when you added a Custom Lable in Contacts in iOS, it would show a sorted list of the custom labels you already made for your contacts phone numbers etc. so you could see if you've already made a custom label to avoid duplication. Now in iOS7, you can add a custom label but you have to scroll down the long list of already entered custom labels that seem to appear in no particular order. It takes a long time if you already have quite a number of custom labels. It used to be easy when they were sorted to scroll down to the labels in alphabetical order. What happened to this feature?

Custom Labels are not Alphabetical.
Same problem with my os7 update, and This is a huge hassle, I re-use labels constantly as I travel for work and
I have hundreds of labels in my contacts.
This is a mess.
The only Good thing I can say is that the 'new' custom label field is finally at the Top of the list of labels.
It used to be at the bottom, meaning I had to scroll thru many many labels to add a new custom label.
So they fixed the tiny little problem and gave us a Massive new problem.
Appple, Please Fix This ASAP.

Sort telephonenumber in a Contact ?

How can I sort the sequence of telephonenumber in One Contact? i.e. Sometimes the First number that appears in a Contact is the faxnummer, which is not what I want. I woud want the private mobile phone number on Top. Tks

You're gonna have to re-enter the numbers in the order you want, there is no "sort" function.

Sort by name in Contacts 7.1

When I try to print a Contacts 7.1 Group List, the print is not in alphabetical list. Any solution?

Try the same solution I offered here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21545890#21545890

Sort and view contacts by company

Our company would like to sort and view all contacts in our iPhones and iPads by company and not a person's first or last name. From all my research it appears that iOS is not capable of doing this. We consider this very important and would like to know how can we suggest this to Apple? I understand there may be other apps that allow this, but, at least to my knowledge, Siri does not access them to locate contact info.

As suggested by Chris, send feedback to the link provided.
There a work around by changing the name (maybe too much work if you have thousands of contacts)
example:
First: John Doe
Last: XYZ corp
Company XYZ corp
First: Peter Pan
Last: XYZ corp
Company: XYZ corp

Sorting Contact's List

The sorting order that my contact's list defaults to is first names. Is there a way to set it to last names permanently?

Not at the moment, no. You can select to sort by last name when you are in the Contacts app, but that will reset the next time you reload the app. Hopefully RIM will address this in a future software update.
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E66: Configuring contact sort order when composing...

Dear friends,
This is probably a silly issue but still, I can't find a solution... I have upgraded my aging Nokia E66 RM-343 to 400.21.013 (this version was suggested by the Nokia Suite and it keeps telling me that this is the latest version). After the upgrade and restoring the phone settings, I am having problems with the contacts sort order when choosing recipients for an SMS message.
I have configured the contact list for the "Last Name First Name" display order, and when making a voice call, the sort order is correct - the contacts are sorted by the last name. However, when writing an SMS message and choosing the recipients, the contact list is displayed in the "Last Name, First Name" mode but it is sorted by the first name which is extremely confusing and inconvenient.
I just do not seem to be able to find where the sort order for the contact list as displayed when composing an SMS message can be configured. Anyone have any suggestion/hint? Thank you very much in forward!
Best regards,
Peter

Unfortunately, the 6230i seems to have only one field for the contact name, so it has no way of knowing what is what. I guess the only thing you can do is reinput all the names manually.
Chris
6230i (the last bug-free Nokia?)
Vodafone UK contract since 1992

Sorting contacts by company instead of name?

I have had a few times where I need to contact a person from a certain company. I could not remember the name of the person but knew the company name. Seeing that I have a lot of contacts on my phone it takes forever to scroll through the list and click on every person I don't recognize to see if they work for the company. Is there a way to view by company or search by company so I don't waste a lot of time scrolling through my contacts? What would be great as well is some sort of grouping of contacts ie business,personal,family etc. Is there a way to do this?

There is no way to search anything other than name in the Contacts app (v3.0 will correct that, this summer). Contacts groups can be set up in Address Book on a Mac, and they are maintained on the iPhone, but that can't be done in Windows.
But, in the meantime, check out these App Store apps:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=300891442&mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=286543435&mt=8

Contact Sort Disorder!!

Dear Sir/Madam
I just bought I4s, and tried to sync my contact into it.
I can sync my contacts from gmail into it, but the order is somewhat disorder.
In my gmail contacts, it sort correctly.
Table below is my current sort order of my contacts. Earlier I use WM and Android
without this problem.
Sort Order : First, Last
Display Order : First Last
Belows is what I got.
The bolded alphabet is what I think that make my contact disorder.
First Name
Last Name
Suffix
K' K (A)
K' B
K' Bb
K' C
K' N
(D)
K' M
H
K' I
K' V
K
K' K
Anybody has same problem as me? How can I solve it?
Thank you in advance.
Xaphryl

bearone21 wrote:
within gmail contacts, more actions, sort by.....
Not quite sure that answers the OP question though! One solution is to download a free replacement dialer from the market, such as Dialer One, which allows the sorting of all contacts by Last Name, First Name

6230i: sort order of contacts

Hi,
I just sychronizied the contact of my 6230i with Outlook.
The sort order in the contacts menu is First Name, Last Name.
But I like to have it Last Name , First Name.
How can I change this?
Or is there a good workaround.
Thanks
Peter

Sorry for VERY delayed reply, but I've only just seen this. I have the same problem.
Outlook allows you to display either way round, so you could
1) export your contacts to an Excel file
2) swap first and last name columns so that last names are in the first name column and vice versa
3) import contacts back in Outlook
4) reverse the Outlook display so that it looks as if nothing has changed
5) re-synch with your phone.
I admit I haven't tried it becasue fortunately my wife prefers first name/last name sequence, but I'm fairly sure this will work.... Good luck
FYI - most Sony Ericsson phones such as T610 & K750i support displaying in either sequence.

Android phones not sending new contacts to GW

What are the default folders that should be set to syncing to the phones? I didn't see anything in the docs, but I could have easily missed that. It used to be that (GWmobile 2 & 3 I think) wanted a folder called "Unfiled" where it sent any contacts created on the phone that were not put into a folder. That doesn't work, with Android at least.
What it does do, is very strange.
0. You have two phones hooked into the same email account. In my case, an Epic & a Hero (both Sprint).
1. Let's say you have two folders set to sync - Unfiled (legacy) and Contacts (because the program seems to want a folder named "Contacts" - if you don't have one it will frequently rename your first syncing folder as "Contacts" on the phone side).
2. You add a new contact, but are unable to put the contact into a folder (the Sprint Epic, for example, does not allow you to change the folders that Exchange contacts are assigned to evidently - I just received a test model and this "feature" is driving me crazy).
3. The contact will show up on the other phone, but not in either of the syncing folders in your Groupwise address book. What? Crazy right? No - it's in Frequent Contacts!
4. Even though you don't have Frequent Contacts set to sync... the contact created on your phone is syncing "via" Frequent Contacts (while the rest of your Frequent Contacts are, thankfully, NOT syncing).
I'm guessing that Groupwise by default sets contacts with no "folder" attribute to show in Frequent Contacts... or something?
Anyway. What am I doing wrong here?
Note: I just verified that it does not matter what folder you put the contacts in (the Hero lets you file them), they still show up in Frequent Contacts and sync to the other phone mostly in the correct folder ("none" on the Hero -> "Not Assigned" on the Epic, "Contacts"->"Contacts" and "Unfiled"->does not sync !?!?).

>> 1. Let's say you have two folders set to sync - Unfiled (legacy) and
>> Contacts (because the program seems to want a folder named "Contacts"
>> - if you don't have one it will frequently rename your first syncing
>> folder as "Contacts" on the phone side).
>Need to clarify this. In the GW client, you have a contacts "tab".
>This is mapped to one of your PABs, the FC by default. When you click
>on the contacts tab you'll see on the left a tree displayed with the
>main PAB for the contacts tab listed at the top of the hierarchy, with
>all your other PABs appearing below it. SOAP exposes the top of this
>"tree" as /Contacts, which is why you see /Contacts in the Mobility
>connector with all your other PABs underneath (e.g. /Contacts/Unfiled,
>/Contacts/Personal, etc). So you don't need to create any sort of PAB
>called contacts. If you do, it will simply be displayed as
>/Contacts/Contacts. Or, worse yet, I don't know what would happen if
>you created a PAB called Contacts and then tried to edit the Contacts
>tab to map to this Contacts PAB.
I skipped some clarification as well. There is another bug, one which I cannot reproduce predictably, but that I have seen a dozen times or so, where the first contact folder you have set to sync (regardless of the name, I've had it happen to "A Architects", "Consultants", "Unfiled", etc.) gets renamed to "Contacts" when sent to the phone. Had this happen on Android & WinMo devices. The original book in GW is fine, but the folder/book on the phone has the label "Contacts".
Sorry about that - I was referring to the phone and not the tree on Mobility.
>> 2. You add a new contact, but are unable to put the contact into a
>> folder (the Sprint Epic, for example, does not allow you to change the
>> folders that Exchange contacts are assigned to evidently - I just
>> received a test model and this "feature" is driving me crazy).
>This is definitely a device issue. On my Incredible I can specify the
>"group" for an Exchange contacts, where each group on the device is a
>GW PAB.
Well, as I said, I can assign folders on the Hero, but they still don't go to the right place in GW - and they sometimes go to the right place on another phone (they go to Frequent Contacts in GW, or sometimes nowhere). I guess the device could be assigning them in a way not supported by GW? I'm not sure, the ones that get sent down show up exactly like the new ones I create.
>Yes, default behavior. Novell has an entry in their Bugzilla system to
>change this. Not sure when that will happen, though. IMO, Mobility
>should act just like GMS and create its own "Unfiled" PAB for new
>contacts created which aren't assigned a group/category on the device
>and sync to that rather than syncing to the FC.
Seriously. Do people actually use the FC folder? No one here does - it gets filled up with junk so fast it would a) render a phone much less useful and b) seems like it would waste a bunch more server cpu time & disk space with the extra syncing.
>You may wish to submit an enhancement request on this one, and
>reference bug 590962 in your ER. The more people that request this,
>the higher the priority for the bug.
OK, I'll have to look into that. I'm new to this whole Novell "support" arena, as this server (& GMS2-3) are the only Novell products I'm responsible for.
Thanks for the feedback! Is there somewhere that Novell at least has a "known issues" section, or a "features coming in next patch"? I've searched around this site (and googled the net in general) and no luck yet.
In the mean time, I'll just keep my fingers crossed for patches and continually apologize to my users and reset their phones and contacts on a weekly basis. Which is tons of fun.

How can i sync 2 separate outlook contacts (2 different accounts but same contacts) on to my iphone?

I have a work iphone which has my work outlook account synced on it (Email, calendar and contacts). I have the same itunes account setup at home and at work and that works fine. However, at home i have a separate outlook account but the contacts between the work and home outllok are the same. Is there anyway that i can sync them via the iphone automatically. Any other solution that doesnt involve the cloud would be preferable. Many thanks!

Ok in a round about way I got my wife's phone to to sync with the bookmarks at least once. I set up iCloud on my PC laptop and installed Safari. Then I logged it on to my iCloud account which imported all the bookmarks over. Then, still on the PC, I switched over the iCloud to my wife's account and presto her phone had all the bookmarks. Now this probably means her bookmarks are only synched with the PC (which is okay because she spends more time on it anyway. I'm always hoging the IMac) and the iMac and the PC are not synched together.
I'm still haveing a problem with my calander syncing with the iMac. My reminders show up but if I add an event to a particular day from my phone it does not. This even applies when I log onto iCloud.com. However, if I add an event on the iMac it does show up on my phone. All the settings are turned on on all three devices. I've tried turning them on and off. I just don't get it because it was working fine.
Contacts seem to be syncing for both of us.... sort of. Any contacts we add on our phone syncs to the Mac but it is doubling up on people we both have.

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