Amend Contact Form

[sally t]

Hi, I'm trying to add a new field to the Outlook Contacts Form. Have managed
to get into the Design of the Form and added the field and then publish it -
giving it the same name - Contacts Form. However, it won't work! Doesn't
keep the field I've added when I got into New Contact. Any help appreciated.
Thanks. Sally T

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Details, details:

1) Outlook version

2) Where did you publish the form?

3) Did you follow any of the normal procedures to make it your default form?
(See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm)

4) What kind of field did you add? What is different about the way you see
the contact when you first create it and after it's saved?

 

[sally t]

Sorry Sue!
Outlook XP 2002. Have now managed I(thanks to your link) to make the new
form the default and it works. New field is a text field. However, is there
a way of amending all existing Contacts (already entered) to also use this
form with the new field or is there no chance of that?
Many, many thanks.
Sally T

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You need to change the MessageClass on the existing items to point to your
new form's class. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm#convert for several tools
and scripts to accomplish this.

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Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
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