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Old February 25th 06, 10:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms
Rich Roller
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Default Custom Button to display on in Contacts view?

Ah, I see now what you meant. I've been focusing on a custom toolbar
button.

If I want to improve on this method, I guess I'll give a shot to figuring
out Ken Slovak's suggestion.

There isn't any pre-made code you know of for displaying buttons only if
view/form=xxxx? (e.g. Contacts)

-Rich


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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A "custom button" could mean either a toolbar button or a button on a custom
form.

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"Rich Roller" wrote in message
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Sue,

Thanks for confirming that the only way to do this is with code.

I'm not sure I understand what question your 2nd reply is to.

-Rich

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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A toolbar button? No, it takes code to detect what kind of folder the user
is looking at and display/hide the button appropriately. Ken gave you the
right answer.

A button on a custom form? Yes, but you said you didn't want a custom
form.


"Rich Roller" wrote in message
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I was told by a MS employee in a private newsgroup to ask my question in
this public group...

Is there an easy way to have a custom button display just for certain
item
types/forms, e.g. Contacts, ideally without complicated VB programming.

More specifically, I created a custom button (method: Customize Toolbar,
drag button to tool bar) that is relavent only to Contacts. The problem
is
that this button now shows up for other item types like Message,
Appointment, etc which is confusing to users and undesirable.

I got a tip from an Ken Slovak in public VBA newsgroup which gave me some
clues on how to approach this via VB (see below) but I just wanted to
check
here to make sure there isn't another way to do this with less or no
programming.

I'd also like to avoid having to make a custom form and
distribute/install
it for each appropriate user. I realize that's what you all do "for a
living" but it's not my preferred choice.

In my dreams, I would just edit properties of the custom button I just
created and click to display on Contacts only... I don't see such a
mechanism but anything similar would be awesome!

Thanks.

-Rich

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
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If you handle the NewInspector event of the Inspectors collection and
you


are only interested in creating your button for contacts the first step
is


to check for contacts when that event fires. That's the code that uses


Inspector.CurrentItem.Class = olContact. If it's anything but a contact
you


don't instantiate the Inspector wrapper.




Code for creating buttons in Inspectors using a wrapper and collection
and


creating the actual buttons in the class is available for both VB 6 and
C#.


The C# example is at http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=797
and


the VB 6 code is at


http://www.slovaktech.com/code_sampl...spectorWrapper. That should
get


you started.




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