Add a page to Appointment Item in outlook

[Don Cox]

At my company we are using a custom form to allow users of Outlook to
schedule an appointment in our software. Due to the fact that scheduling
conflicts may occur, there has to be some interaction between the form and
our application server.

So far, we have been using an embedded browser object to do this. However,
since the form needs to get information from the server, and vice versa, and
since the webbrowser object doesn't fire events to say when a page is
loading, this method is kind of unstable.

What would you recommend for a solution? Will a COM add-in allow me to add a
tab to the AppointmentItem to show the scheduling interface users are
familiar with? Any help and suggestions appreciated.

Don

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You can only work with the existing tabs, you can't add any ever.

Controls on Outlook forms are very limited. In many cases the only event
passed along is Click, no matter what the control supports outside of
Outlook forms. In some cases custom Outlook forms are unavoidable (like if
you need something extra integrated into the standard form's UI), but due to
the lack of robustness in custom forms I usually try to use forms from
within my addins and then I store the data in custom properties in the
Outlook items.