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Hello,
I am trying to achieve something in Outlook however I need yo know if it can be done by creating a new form. Basicaly I want to Create a new entity in outlook called "Companies". Just like contacts I want to be able to create new companies with their relevant information like name, address, average revenue, etc. also this company can be assigned some "Contacts", "Notes" and "Tasks". Can this be done by creating a form or will this require an add-in? In any case i am a .NET programmer and if you can direct me to a sample that can get me started that would be great. Thank you, Best regards, Andre |
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Your choice of approach depends to a large degree on the audience and what you want them to see: Who will be using this new entity (which sounds like a ContactItem with a few custom properties added)? How do you want to display information to them? In what version(s) of Outlook?
Unless it's for your personal use, you're likely to be looking at an add-in. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "Andre" wrote in message ... Hello, I am trying to achieve something in Outlook however I need yo know if it can be done by creating a new form. Basicaly I want to Create a new entity in outlook called "Companies". Just like contacts I want to be able to create new companies with their relevant information like name, address, average revenue, etc. also this company can be assigned some "Contacts", "Notes" and "Tasks". Can this be done by creating a form or will this require an add-in? In any case i am a .NET programmer and if you can direct me to a sample that can get me started that would be great. Thank you, Best regards, Andre |
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Ok first thank you for your reply.
I am trying to make this for myself and my colleagues. Each one will be using it separately on their outlook 2007. Basically I should be able to separate between contacts and companies. Each company entry will have multiple contacts assigned to it. We should be able to see the list of companies in any form as long as we can differentiate between contacts and companies. When they open a "company" entry, the form should have all the info for this company as well as the contacts assigned to this company. Any help would be much appreciated! Regards, Andre "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Your choice of approach depends to a large degree on the audience and what you want them to see: Who will be using this new entity (which sounds like a ContactItem with a few custom properties added)? How do you want to display information to them? In what version(s) of Outlook? Unless it's for your personal use, you're likely to be looking at an add-in. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "Andre" wrote in message ... Hello, I am trying to achieve something in Outlook however I need yo know if it can be done by creating a new form. Basicaly I want to Create a new entity in outlook called "Companies". Just like contacts I want to be able to create new companies with their relevant information like name, address, average revenue, etc. also this company can be assigned some "Contacts", "Notes" and "Tasks". Can this be done by creating a form or will this require an add-in? In any case i am a .NET programmer and if you can direct me to a sample that can get me started that would be great. Thank you, Best regards, Andre |
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I would recommend building this as an add-in using the new form regions feature introduced in Outlook 2007. For samples and templates, you can start with:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226713.aspx http://www.slovaktech.com/outlook_2007_templates.htm -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "Andre" wrote in message ... Ok first thank you for your reply. I am trying to make this for myself and my colleagues. Each one will be using it separately on their outlook 2007. Basically I should be able to separate between contacts and companies. Each company entry will have multiple contacts assigned to it. We should be able to see the list of companies in any form as long as we can differentiate between contacts and companies. When they open a "company" entry, the form should have all the info for this company as well as the contacts assigned to this company. Any help would be much appreciated! Regards, Andre "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Your choice of approach depends to a large degree on the audience and what you want them to see: Who will be using this new entity (which sounds like a ContactItem with a few custom properties added)? How do you want to display information to them? In what version(s) of Outlook? Unless it's for your personal use, you're likely to be looking at an add-in. "Andre" wrote in message ... Hello, I am trying to achieve something in Outlook however I need yo know if it can be done by creating a new form. Basicaly I want to Create a new entity in outlook called "Companies". Just like contacts I want to be able to create new companies with their relevant information like name, address, average revenue, etc. also this company can be assigned some "Contacts", "Notes" and "Tasks". Can this be done by creating a form or will this require an add-in? In any case i am a .NET programmer and if you can direct me to a sample that can get me started that would be great. |
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=?Utf-8?B?QW5kcmU=?= wrote: Ok first thank you for your reply. I am trying to make this for myself and my colleagues. Each one will be using it separately on their outlook 2007. Basically I should be able to separate between contacts and companies. Each company entry will have multiple contacts assigned to it. We should be able to see the list of companies in any form as long as we can differentiate between contacts and companies. When they open a "company" entry, the form should have all the info for this company as well as the contacts assigned to this company. You aren't the first to want this. Take a look at this page: Select a Specific Contact from all Contacts (for a specific company). the custom form allows the selection of a specific contact from all the items for a company in the contact folder. also attached is a text file that describes how it might be set up in a folder, and then presents a brief functional description of the various subroutines. http://www.outlookexchange.com/artic...example.asp#33 I posted this in September of 97, probably for the Outlook of Office 95. You will probably need to find the corresponding objects in Outlook 2007 Object model, and use the new names. -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA |
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