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December 14th 06, 11:17 AM
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Hi, I've developed a web service that emulates SharePoint's lists-web
service. Now I can link lists from my web application into Outlook 2007 using STSSync. So far, so cool. I am still missing one thing, though: The web service deliveres over 20 fields, but all I can see in Outlook (I've created an addin to examine the Outlook Object Model as well as the MAPI message) are the default fields like "subject", "start", "end", "reccurring" and so on. So my question is: where can I find the other fields returned by the web service? Do I need to tell Outlook what fields to expect in advance? Thank you in advance, Munir Husseini 
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December 14th 06, 01:35 PM
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Outlook's integration with SharePoint supports only a limited number of fields -- the standard ones you're already familiar with. Handling others would require building your own sync functionality on top of what STSSync provides.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Munir" wrote in message ... Hi, I've developed a web service that emulates SharePoint's lists-web service. Now I can link lists from my web application into Outlook 2007 using STSSync. So far, so cool. I am still missing one thing, though: The web service deliveres over 20 fields, but all I can see in Outlook (I've created an addin to examine the Outlook Object Model as well as the MAPI message) are the default fields like "subject", "start", "end", "reccurring" and so on. So my question is: where can I find the other fields returned by the web service? Do I need to tell Outlook what fields to expect in advance? Thank you in advance, Munir Husseini
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December 14th 06, 01:57 PM
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Dear Sue,
thanks for your Response (actually, thanks for your responses to other questions on other forums, I believe I've almost read them all). Is it possible to extend Outlooks STSSync functionality or do I have to implement the whole sync process myself? Thank you, Munir Husseini "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Outlook's integration with SharePoint supports only a limited number of fields -- the standard ones you're already familiar with. Handling others would require building your own sync functionality on top of what STSSync provides. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Munir" wrote in message ... Hi, I've developed a web service that emulates SharePoint's lists-web service. Now I can link lists from my web application into Outlook 2007 using STSSync. So far, so cool. I am still missing one thing, though: The web service deliveres over 20 fields, but all I can see in Outlook (I've created an addin to examine the Outlook Object Model as well as the MAPI message) are the default fields like "subject", "start", "end", "reccurring" and so on. So my question is: where can I find the other fields returned by the web service? Do I need to tell Outlook what fields to expect in advance? Thank you in advance, Munir Husseini
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December 14th 06, 03:30 PM
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You'd have to do the whole thing yourself. Outlook's process is not exposed to programmers.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Munir" wrote in message ... Dear Sue, thanks for your Response (actually, thanks for your responses to other questions on other forums, I believe I've almost read them all). Is it possible to extend Outlooks STSSync functionality or do I have to implement the whole sync process myself? Thank you, Munir Husseini "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Outlook's integration with SharePoint supports only a limited number of fields -- the standard ones you're already familiar with. Handling others would require building your own sync functionality on top of what STSSync provides. "Munir" wrote in message ... Hi, I've developed a web service that emulates SharePoint's lists-web service. Now I can link lists from my web application into Outlook 2007 using STSSync. So far, so cool. I am still missing one thing, though: The web service deliveres over 20 fields, but all I can see in Outlook (I've created an addin to examine the Outlook Object Model as well as the MAPI message) are the default fields like "subject", "start", "end", "reccurring" and so on. So my question is: where can I find the other fields returned by the web service? Do I need to tell Outlook what fields to expect in advance? Thank you in advance, Munir Husseini
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December 14th 06, 04:05 PM
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Thank you for your explanations, Sue.
It is a real pitty that there's no way to use Outlooks functionality to propagate custom fields. A great deal of applications could easily be developed using Microsofts collaboration model, but with limitations like this, the wheel has to be reinvented each time anyone needs an Outlook item with just one custom field. I'll stick to this, though... Munir Hussein "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: You'd have to do the whole thing yourself. Outlook's process is not exposed to programmers. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Munir" wrote in message ... Dear Sue, thanks for your Response (actually, thanks for your responses to other questions on other forums, I believe I've almost read them all). Is it possible to extend Outlooks STSSync functionality or do I have to implement the whole sync process myself? Thank you, Munir Husseini "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Outlook's integration with SharePoint supports only a limited number of fields -- the standard ones you're already familiar with. Handling others would require building your own sync functionality on top of what STSSync provides. "Munir" wrote in message ... Hi, I've developed a web service that emulates SharePoint's lists-web service. Now I can link lists from my web application into Outlook 2007 using STSSync. So far, so cool. I am still missing one thing, though: The web service deliveres over 20 fields, but all I can see in Outlook (I've created an addin to examine the Outlook Object Model as well as the MAPI message) are the default fields like "subject", "start", "end", "reccurring" and so on. So my question is: where can I find the other fields returned by the web service? Do I need to tell Outlook what fields to expect in advance? Thank you in advance, Munir Husseini
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December 14th 06, 04:45 PM
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Given that Microsoft is de-emphasizing Exchange public folders and encouraging people to move folder-based applications from Exchange to SharePoint, I think that eventually there will be a built-in way to accomplish this, but we have a long way to go and I doubt it will happen before Outlook 14. Perhaps some enterprising ISV will write a developer tool to help make this happen.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Munir" wrote in message ... Thank you for your explanations, Sue. It is a real pitty that there's no way to use Outlooks functionality to propagate custom fields. A great deal of applications could easily be developed using Microsofts collaboration model, but with limitations like this, the wheel has to be reinvented each time anyone needs an Outlook item with just one custom field. I'll stick to this, though... Munir Hussein "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: You'd have to do the whole thing yourself. Outlook's process is not exposed to programmers. "Munir" wrote in message ... Dear Sue, thanks for your Response (actually, thanks for your responses to other questions on other forums, I believe I've almost read them all). Is it possible to extend Outlooks STSSync functionality or do I have to implement the whole sync process myself? Thank you, Munir Husseini "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Outlook's integration with SharePoint supports only a limited number of fields -- the standard ones you're already familiar with. Handling others would require building your own sync functionality on top of what STSSync provides. "Munir" wrote in message ... Hi, I've developed a web service that emulates SharePoint's lists-web service. Now I can link lists from my web application into Outlook 2007 using STSSync. So far, so cool. I am still missing one thing, though: The web service deliveres over 20 fields, but all I can see in Outlook (I've created an addin to examine the Outlook Object Model as well as the MAPI message) are the default fields like "subject", "start", "end", "reccurring" and so on. So my question is: where can I find the other fields returned by the web service? Do I need to tell Outlook what fields to expect in advance? Thank you in advance, Munir Husseini
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December 8th 10, 11:59 PM
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I am not sure about your web service, but custom SharePoint fields can be exposed in Outlook with tools like ProperSync (http://www.propersync.com).
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