corrupt view - by category   

I have a problem with a public folder view.  When I set the view to "by 
Category", it has always in the past listed each category properly, and if a 
user existed in more than 1 category, they would appear under each individual 
category.  Overnight, this behaviour changed as follow:  for every user who 
is a member of more than 1 category, the "by category" view now concatenates 
all the categories into 1.

e.g.: user is member of group a and group b
view now shows 1 category as "groupa, groupb" of which the user is visible
another category as "group a" of which the user is no longer visible
another category as "group b" of which the user is no longer visible

compared to before where it showed 2 categories:

"group a" of which the user is visible
"group b" of which the user is visible

the public folder uses a custom contact form with its' own categories
and I have 2 folders that use the same form, 1 folder still works fine

Any ideas how to eliminate these concatenated  categories without deleting 
and recreating the folderwould be appreciated

thanks,

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Steve Paul

date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:37:29 -0800   author:   Steve Paul

Re: corrupt view - by category   

In news:210E35D9-1DD2-4E93-830F-9EA4AD92951B@microsoft.com,
Steve Paul  typed:
> I have a problem with a public folder view.  When I set the view to
> "by Category", it has always in the past listed each category
> properly, and if a user existed in more than 1 category, they would
> appear under each individual category.  Overnight, this behaviour
> changed as follow:  for every user who is a member of more than 1
> category, the "by category" view now concatenates all the categories
> into 1.
>
> e.g.: user is member of group a and group b
> view now shows 1 category as "groupa, groupb" of which the user is
> visible another category as "group a" of which the user is no longer
> visible
> another category as "group b" of which the user is no longer visible
>
> compared to before where it showed 2 categories:
>
> "group a" of which the user is visible
> "group b" of which the user is visible
>
> the public folder uses a custom contact form with its' own categories
> and I have 2 folders that use the same form, 1 folder still works fine
>
> Any ideas how to eliminate these concatenated  categories without
> deleting and recreating the folderwould be appreciated
>
> thanks,

Reset the view in Outlook. You can do this either by going into view | 
current view | customize current view | reset view (at least, in OL2003) or 
starting Outlook once from  Start Run by browing to the full path of 
outlook.exe and appending /cleanviews to the end.....

for example,

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /cleanviews

Pres OK/enter.

Note that this will delete all custom views.

date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:14:50 -0500   author:   Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]