On 5/24/07 12:42 AM, Steve Ball deftly typed out:
> These are contacts with no entry in "First" or 'Last' name fields. The only
> 'name' is in the 'Company' field, and Entourage displays this in the 'Name'
> column (as well as the 'Company' column) when I open the address book.
> However, the sorting is weird.
It's interesting that Entourage displays the company name in the "Name"
field if there is no name for the contact. Despite displaying it, though, it
doesn't affect the sorting by name. All contacts with nothing in the name
fields will sort before the ones with names.
Within these contacts (the ones without info in the name fields) sorting
*is* odd if you sort by the name column. In my quick testing, it appears
that newer records sort before the older ones. With nothing in the name
fields to sort by, if forced to sort by the cantact name, Entourage seems to
sort (in reverse order!) by the unique ID of the contact. You can verify
this with quick and dirty script:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theContacts to selection
repeat with i in theContacts
if class of i is contact then
set contactID to ID of i
end if
end repeat
display dialog "The unique ID of this contact is " & contactID
end tell
Select one contact at a time and run this script with each. You should see
that, looking only at the contacts with no name and with the contact list
sorted in ascending order (A to Z), the "nameless" contacts will be sorted
in descending order by unique ID.
Whatever the reason for this is, I would say that the solution to your
problem would be to place the company name in one of the name fields as
well. If you want the companies to sort alphabetically along with the rest
of your contacts, place the company name in the last name field. If you want
them to sort at the top, so that the company contacts are altogether, place
the company name in the first name field.
-Remo Del Bello
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