Find contacts not working

[russell]

I've been having problems with finding contacts. Eventually i tried to run this piece of Sanity Checking code and it seems that I have finally found the issue that is causing me hassle:

ContactList cl = _actFramework.Contacts.GetContacts(null);
MutableEntityFieldDescriptor nameField = _actFramework.GetFieldDescriptor("TBL_CONTACT.FULLNAME", true);
string Name = cl[0].FullName;
int ContactPos = cl.Find(nameField, Name);

This always returns ContacPos == -1
The list is populated and the person has a name but I can't get this code to work.

What I'm actually trying to do is create a DoesContactExist(string fullName) function.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

Russell

[vivek]

Hi Russell,

try:

ContactList cl = _actFramework.Contacts.GetContacts(null);
ContactFieldDescriptor nameField = _actFramework.Contacts.GetContactFieldDescriptor("TBL_CONTACT.FULLNAME",true);
string name = cl[0].FullName;
int contactPos = cl.Find(nameField,Name);

ContactFieldDescriptor inherits from PropertyDescriptor so that should happily work. You might need to possibly cast the ContactFieldDescriptor?

HTH

Vivek