Add Business Phone Field to Journal

[donbowyer]

I use Outlook 2003 on Win XP
I use Journal for recording phone calls.
I record 4 fields OK - Contact, Start (ie date), End and Duration.
I want to add the contact's phone number as a displayed field.
So, I added the "Business Phone" field, but it never fills.
The required phone number information is actually present in the Contacts
folder from which I initiate the call.
So how do I get this information into the Business Phone field used by
Journal?
Any suggestions would be welcome.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Any folder view shows only the data in that folder, even though Outlook lets you think otherwise by allowing you to add fields from different types of items in the folder. The Business Phone data exists in the Contacts folder, not the Journal folder. You can accomplish what you want, however, with a little custom VBA code to copy data from the contact to the journal entry. For an example, see http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=566

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[donbowyer]

Hi Sue
Thank you for your response.
I visited the OutlookCode site as you suggested.
I pasted the code, but had an immediate issue with the first line (Global
Declaration)
I left a message there, but as I'm not sure how often you go there,
I thought I'd better contact you again here.
Regards

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I've responded on the code sample page.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Hi Sue
Thank you for your response.
I visited the OutlookCode site as you suggested.
I pasted the code, but had an immediate issue with the first line (Global
Declaration)
I left a message there, but as I'm not sure how often you go there,
I thought I'd better contact you again here.
Regards