I do not understand why a world renowned application such as Microsoft
Outlook Contacts seems to miss out completely that contacts are generally a
network of relationships. I also do not understand why there are no third
party software add-ins created by Microsoft that are able to handle a Family
tree like structure within contacts.
Please can someone tell me if there are any other products out there to add
on to Outlook where by I can edit a contact and assign a relationship ie;
Spouse, Child, Sibling, Parent and then view this network.
The problem with most grouping applications is that they are unable to
handle both "Spouse" links and "Dual Node Ancestry Links".
I really do struugle to understand why such an important and to me obvious
function is missing from Outlook or indeed any other Microsoft product
related to it.

Sebastian

you can add the parents to the Contacts field to link them.

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.htm - at least one of the apps
listed does org chart type grouping.

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"Sebastian" wrote in message
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I do not understand why a world renowned application such as Microsoft
Outlook Contacts seems to miss out completely that contacts are generally
a
network of relationships. I also do not understand why there are no third
party software add-ins created by Microsoft that are able to handle a
Family
tree like structure within contacts.
Please can someone tell me if there are any other products out there to
add
on to Outlook where by I can edit a contact and assign a relationship ie;
Spouse, Child, Sibling, Parent and then view this network.
The problem with most grouping applications is that they are unable to
handle both "Spouse" links and "Dual Node Ancestry Links".
I really do struugle to understand why such an important and to me obvious
function is missing from Outlook or indeed any other Microsoft product
related to it.

Sebastian