The schema you want for contacts is "OutlookAddressItemRibbonControls.xls".

There's also a trick that can be used in most cases. Right-click on the
ribbon on the line where the tab names are in an open item and select
Customize Quick Access Toolbar. In the customize dialog select All Commands
in the Choose drop-down. When you hover over a command the schema name will
show up as a tip.

There are 2 commands listed there for Call: Call and DialMenu.

So it looks like your XML should be OK, it just may be an inability to
repurpose those commands. I'm not familiar with playing with those controls,
but I know for a fact that you cannot repurpose the Send button at all. This
may be a similar situation.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
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Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
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"Stephan Steiner" wrote in
message ...
Ken

I must be doing something wrong.. I managed to repurpose certain buttons
in
the contacts, but no luck with the call menu. The split button I'm
refering
to is called "Call", has a telephone handset as icon, and is in the
Communicate section of the Contact. In the same section we have the
E-Mail,
Meeting, ASsign Task, WebPage and Map fuctionality by default.

When clicked the button shows a list of all telephone numbers, including
their label, and clicking one will initiate a call using whatever TAPI TSP
has bee configured (or when you use Microsoft Office Communicator, the
communicator starts dialing).

Finding the idMso isn't easy for outlook as there 19 different files, and
their names don't necessary match what you expect. E.g. there's no
OutlookContactItemRibbonControls.xlsx (that's where I'd expect the contact
ribbon to be explained). However, I think I still found it -
outlookTaskItemRibbonControl.xlsx. It contains a group called
"GroupCommunicate", which includes the following idMso's:
NewMessageToContact, NewMeetingWithContact, DialMenu, Call,
NewTaskForContact, ContactWebPage and MapContactAddress - exactly the
things
I listed before - we have every ribbon button in the communicate section.

Yet, when I define my ribbon XML as follows:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?
customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui"
onLoad="Ribbon_Load"
commands
command idMso="ForwardAsBusinessCard" onAction="ForwardOverride"/
command idMso="DialMenu" onAction="DialMenuOverride"/
command idMso="Call" onAction="CallOverride"/
/commands
ribbon
/ribbon
/customUI

The only event that is triggered is ForwardOverride - for the other two,
the
default action is triggered and the methods DialMenuOverride and
CallOverride
are never triggered.

Do you have any idea how to repurpose the items in the list that pops up
when pushing the call button?

Regards
Stephan