Example | Synchronizing Additional Appointment Fields – "Category"

An example to illustrate how to synchronize the Category field from Outlook to Aurea CRM and vice versa.

Assumption: You have created a (generic) field Category for the MA table in Aurea CRM.

  1. Add the mapping for Category to FieldMapping.xml
    <Appointments>
 <MappableFields>
  <Field MapFieldID="2" OLDisplName="Category" MSExFieldName="Keywords" MSExFieldType="PT_MV_STRING8"/>
 </MappableFields>
 <FieldMapping>
  <Map UpdFieldName = "Category" MapFieldID="2"/>
 </FieldMapping>
</Appointments>
  2. Add the field Category to Forms.xml.
    <form type="vevent">
 <table tablename="Contact">
  <field fieldname="Category"/>
 </table>
</form>
  3. Add the following block to SyncML_gw2mm.xslt
    <xsl:if test='syncml:Category'>
 <xsl:element name ='field'>
  <xsl:attribute name='name'>Category</xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:attribute name='tablename'>Contact</xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:attribute name='fieldname'>Category</xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:value-of select='syncml:Category'/>
 </xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
  4. Add the following block to to SyncML_mm2gw.xslt
    <xsl:if test='syncml:Category'>
 <xsl:element name='Category' namespace='SYNCML:SYNCML1.1'>
  <xsl:value-of select='syncml:Category'/>
 </xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
  5. Restart CRM.interface application pool and connector service.