Bulk change of Contact File As

[sgrzy01]

Is there a way from the cli for a bulk update to set the "File As" attribute in the contact record for all contacts for a user.

Have users that have a mix of firstname/lastname and lastname/firstname and want them all to be the same w/o doing manually

thought to use zmmailbox but can't find an attribute in the schema to do this..

Thanx!

[sgrzy01]

Ack... so there is now way to bulk update a Contact "File As"? I gotta just be missing it....

any help would be appreciated...

[sgrzy01]

This has come up again as a major issue for my users.. any help would be appreciated...

Thanx

[bdial]

if you do zmmailbox gact you'll see that each contact has a field

fileAs:

that field has a number. the number i think has to do with how it's filed. I changed one of mine that was fileAs: 1 to First, Last and the value changed to 2 which makes sense since that's the 2nd option. So I imagine if you want them all to be like Last, First which is the default first option you need to set every contact value of fileAs to be 1.

How do you do this? well you'll need to probably do a little bash scripting. you'll basically have to do a zmmailbox gact for the account, parse hte output to get the ID of every contact and run zmmailbox mcta (modify contact) to set the fileAs attribute.