None that I know of that will help. Filing a bug with MS or opening a case
with support would likely lead to them telling you it can't be done and may
not be fixed in Outlook 2007 at all.

I'll see if any of my friends have any other ideas.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Ryan Taylor" wrote in message
...
Fair enough, thanks for all of the time you spent looking. I wasn't able
to
find anything either. Do you know what other otions I have in terms of
finding a solution to this problem?

Thanks,
Ryan

We discussed this privately and I think the reason it's not working is that
the To-Do Bar allows a standard view only and the customization is making
Outlook create a new view behind the scenes. To quote Sue Mosher:

"Outlook does not allow you to
programmatically modify a standard view -- another pain point. If you
try to modify an existing standard view, Outlook clones the settings
and creates a copy that is a user-specific view. My hunch is that the
to-do bar can use only the master view, not the user-specific copy."

Thanks Sue and Diane Poremsky for your help in the discussions.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
...
None that I know of that will help. Filing a bug with MS or opening a case
with support would likely lead to them telling you it can't be done and
may not be fixed in Outlook 2007 at all.

I'll see if any of my friends have any other ideas.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Ryan Taylor" wrote in message
...
Fair enough, thanks for all of the time you spent looking. I wasn't able
to
find anything either. Do you know what other otions I have in terms of
finding a solution to this problem?

Thanks,
Ryan

Hi Ken,

Thank you for researching this further. I apologize for not responding
sooner, I apparently didn't receive the "new post notification" from the
forum.

It is interesting, through the UI, I can modify that standard view and add
the Icon field to it and it will show up. I do understand what you are
saying, that when making these modifications programmatically, Outlook may
create a copy and actually use the copy, instead of the modified view.

Since I am able to set this manually, is there some macro or something
similar that I can create that will go and physically use the mouse to select
this Icon field?

I know it seems like a small thing, but we customize the icons to indicate
various states so it is really important that the users be able to see it.
Unforunately, I cannot rely on them going and manually adding this field.

Thanks again for all of your help, both you and Sue and Diane,
Ryan

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

We discussed this privately and I think the reason it's not working is that
the To-Do Bar allows a standard view only and the customization is making
Outlook create a new view behind the scenes. To quote Sue Mosher:

"Outlook does not allow you to
programmatically modify a standard view -- another pain point. If you
try to modify an existing standard view, Outlook clones the settings
and creates a copy that is a user-specific view. My hunch is that the
to-do bar can use only the master view, not the user-specific copy."

Thanks Sue and Diane Poremsky for your help in the discussions.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
...
None that I know of that will help. Filing a bug with MS or opening a case
with support would likely lead to them telling you it can't be done and
may not be fixed in Outlook 2007 at all.

I'll see if any of my friends have any other ideas.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Ryan Taylor" wrote in message
...
Fair enough, thanks for all of the time you spent looking. I wasn't able
to
find anything either. Do you know what other otions I have in terms of
finding a solution to this problem?

Thanks,
Ryan

No, there's nothing you can do in code. I had also verified this with the PM
who owns the Outlook object model on the Outlook team.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Ryan Taylor" wrote in message
...
Hi Ken,

Thank you for researching this further. I apologize for not responding
sooner, I apparently didn't receive the "new post notification" from the
forum.

It is interesting, through the UI, I can modify that standard view and add
the Icon field to it and it will show up. I do understand what you are
saying, that when making these modifications programmatically, Outlook may
create a copy and actually use the copy, instead of the modified view.

Since I am able to set this manually, is there some macro or something
similar that I can create that will go and physically use the mouse to
select
this Icon field?

I know it seems like a small thing, but we customize the icons to indicate
various states so it is really important that the users be able to see it.
Unforunately, I cannot rely on them going and manually adding this field.

Thanks again for all of your help, both you and Sue and Diane,
Ryan

Hi,

I too would greatly appreciate knowing if there was a solution.

It's got me stumped!


Thnaks, Greg