Custom Form: Additional Contact Info Options

[Frank Castle]

Hi All, I am looking for a way to add additional fileds to my contacts in
outlook and get saved to a database. I would then like to be able to send an
email to my contact asking for that field info. So for instance, I want to
add a "Religion" field to my contacts, then be able to email my contact
asking for the field in the form of a question "What Religion are you?" and
then processing that response to my DB so that I can report later on to see
who is part of what religion.

Could someone point me in the general direction of steps that I need to take
to get something like this accomplished? Any books? Any links? Any web
sites? Any existing add-ins? Any answers to the puzzle?

Thanks.
-f

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Comments inline.

Hi All, I am looking for a way to add additional fileds to my contacts in
outlook

You can use the All Fields page to add a custom field to any contact. Or design a custom form; see http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=35

and get saved to a database.

Outlook has no native feature to push data into a database. That would require code or a third-party tool; see http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=25

I would then like to be able to send an
email to my contact asking for that field info. So for instance, I want to
add a "Religion" field to my contacts, then be able to email my contact
asking for the field in the form of a question "What Religion are you?" and
then processing that response to my DB so that I can report later on to see
who is part of what religion.

Details would depend on your version of Office, whether these are internal or external recipients, if internal whether you use Exchange as your mail server and can publish a form to the Organizational Forms library.

Could someone point me in the general direction of steps that I need to take
to get something like this accomplished? Any books? Any links? Any web
sites?

See my signature below.

Any existing add-ins?

See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contact_management.asp and http://www.slipstick.com/addins/extract.asp

 

[Frank Castle]

Thanks Sue! That will do the trick.

I appreciate it.

-f


Comments inline.

Hi All, I am looking for a way to add additional fileds to my contacts in
outlook

You can use the All Fields page to add a custom field to any contact. Or
design a custom form; see http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=35

and get saved to a database.

Outlook has no native feature to push data into a database. That would
require code or a third-party tool; see
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=25

I would then like to be able to send an
email to my contact asking for that field info. So for instance, I want to
add a "Religion" field to my contacts, then be able to email my contact
asking for the field in the form of a question "What Religion are you?"
and
then processing that response to my DB so that I can report later on to
see
who is part of what religion.

Details would depend on your version of Office, whether these are internal
or external recipients, if internal whether you use Exchange as your mail
server and can publish a form to the Organizational Forms library.

Could someone point me in the general direction of steps that I need to
take
to get something like this accomplished? Any books? Any links? Any web
sites?

See my signature below.

Any existing add-ins?

See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contact_management.asp and
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/extract.asp