drag and drop *.oft templates Outlook 2000

[ProjectX]

Hi,

I'm working with Outlook 2000 with Exchange 2000.

What I'm doing is dragging and dropping 4 *.oft templates into a mail
message folder for storage. This works fine, but sometimes the file
extention .oft appears in the Subject line and the file icon appears as the
Outlook icon. Other times I do the exact same thing and the file shows as a
template and the subject line does not show the file extention.
I was wondering if there is any way to consistantly add the templates into
Outlook where the file shows as a template and the subject line does not
contain the .oft extention ?? This is important for a macro I'm running...

I prefer to do this task manually (drag and drop) instead of
programmitically since it is much easier, I just want to know how to achieve
consistant results.

thanks!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Maybe it has something to do with the user's file extension settings in Windows?

In any way, why are you doing this instead of publishing the forms?

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

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

 

[ProjectX]

I'm doing it this way because the mailbox I put the files in is a shared
mailbox. I have the users setup with a com-addin that has a button that
publishes the forms so if I have updates I copy the forms into that mailbox
in a specific folder then tell everyone to 'click' the 'update' button which
in turn publishes the forms to their personal forms library.

It's my understanding that when the file is dragged over to the Outlook
message folder it becomes a Document Item when the file doesn't have the
extention .oft in the subject line and displays as a template. I confirmed
this by running the TypeName function on it. When I run the function on the
file with the extention displayed in the subject I get an error.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

What error?

Regardless, wouldn't your add-in just be able to process the items and their attachments the same way?

Cool add-in, by the way -- similar to an idea that I'd been kicking around recently.

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

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