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[rspppcgeeks]

Originally Posted by cab3

Next GoodLink question, for those of you that have it working. Does your contacts in your phone dialer take you to the Goodlink contacts, or the local contact list? How can I change which contact list it takes me to when I'm in the phone?

Hi cab3 - I've never found a way to change any phone app (Cyberon Voice Commander, phone contacts button, etc.) to brink up the goodlink contact list. The button takes you to the pocket outlook (local) contacts...

But there's a way to work around the issue where the GL client has it's own contact list which it syncs with the exchange contacts list while other apps on the phone (e.g. Cyberon Voice Commander) look at the pocket outlook contact list.

I set up ActiveSync to sync my exchange contact list with my pocket outlook contacts list. Then GL keeps my exchange contacts synced with my GL client contacts. Obviously, the pocket Outlook contacts get a bit behind if you don't use ActiveSync very often, but I don't make a lot of contact changes so it's not a big problem for me.

On my device, I can add/delete/change contacts via either the GL or Outlook contacts and after I sync up, anything I changed gets propogated to the other contact list. If I make changes directly in Exchange, those also get sent to both lists.

It's a waste that they don't work together directly, but this solution has worked for me the last couple of years.

[cab3]

Originally Posted by rspppcgeeks

Hi cab3 - I've never found a way to change any phone app (Cyberon Voice Commander, phone contacts button, etc.) to brink up the goodlink contact list. The button takes you to the pocket outlook (local) contacts...

Well, I think I actually figured this out today. I did some searching on here and found a few things related to SPB Contacts, I think, and I thought I'd try to adapt it to work for GoodLink. What I ended up doing was enable GoodLink Contacts for all Contacts menus. I edited the registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:M SCONTACTS

and changed the "String 1" value from ":MSPOUTLOOK contacts" to whole of the following:

"\Program Files\GoodLink\GoodContacts.exe"


After doing that, pretty much every Contacts button on the phone now routes me to my GoodLink contacts, which is exactly what I wanted. Hope it helps others!