Changing Default Appointment Form

[ghillie30]

I've started using a custom appointment form in Outlook 2007. If I set the
custom form as the new default today, will appointments previously entered
with the old form still open with the old form, or will they open with the
new form? If they do open with the new form, will data carry over (if old and
new fields are the same)? Thanks.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

They will open with the old form unless you go through the entire Items
collection of that folder and change the MessageClass to your custom
MessageClass. All existing data should be preserved.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Do you mean that you've modified the Windows registry to make Outlook use
IPM.Appointment.MyForm as the default appointment form instead of
IPM.Appointment? If so, then all IPM.Appointment items will display in the
IPM.Appointment.MyForm form. But if you have any items with a MessageClass
value of IPM.Appointment.AnotherForm, they will continue using that form.

Data always carries over; it's totally independent of the form that the
MessageClass property points to. Whether you can see the data in the UI is,
however, dependent on the form design.

 

[ghillie30]

Hi - No, I haven't changed registry, and I really didn't want to re-enter a
lot of future appointments that had already been entered with
IPM.Appointment. We use the calendar and appointments to track
people/facilities/usage for end of year summaries, and the custom form has
separate fields to enter data that had previously been lumped in the memo
field in IPM.Appointment. I changed the default form to my custom form
yesterday, and new appointments open with the custom form but old ones still
use IPM.Appointment. This is just what I wanted, thanks for the help.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

By "I changed the default form," you mean that you changed the default form
for that one appointment folder, right? Then Ken's answer is an exact fit for
your scenario.

You might want to note for the future that "change the default form" can be
done in more than one way, so it helps to specify exactly which method was
used.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[ghillie30]

That's correct, just the one folder. Sorry i didn't give more info. Thanks.