go back to the default contact form

[M K W]

Hello,

I have Office XP with SP2 and exchange server 2000, I have designed a new
form, I published it and I changed the class of a specific directory to
switch from the default contact form to the new form, everything was great
and we were using the new form.
Unfortunately the management decided to stop the new form and go back to the
default one. I did all what I should do, I changed the class and everything,
now that folder is using the default form when adding a new contact but I
still have many contacts when I open them they open using the form that I
have designed.


Is there a way to make all the contacts use default form again?? I have
about 4000 contacts!
Any help would be highly appreciated
Regards

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You need to change the MessageClass on the existing items so that its value is IPM.Contact not IPM.Contact.YourCustomForm. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm#convert for several tools and scripts to accomplish this.

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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

 

[M K W]

Thank you Sue,
Thats what I did, i changed the message class and now it is IPM.Contact, but
still the same, many contacts are still using the form I designed. I need a
way to make all contacts use the default form.


You need to change the MessageClass on the existing items so that its value
is IPM.Contact not IPM.Contact.YourCustomForm. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm#convert for several tools
and scripts to accomplish this.

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

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

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

After running one of the tools or scripts suggested, what is the value of the MessageClass property on the items in question? If it's still IPM.Contact.YourCustomForm, then you haven't changed the MessageClass yet and need to try again, maybe with a different tool. If it's IPM.Contact, then all the items have one-off forms embedded inside them. To clean up existing one-off items, use CDO 1.21 to remove MAPI property tags that are apparently responsible for the one-off behavior, as shown in the sample at http://www.cdolive.net/download/CleanUpOneOff.zip, and set the Type property (CDO's equivalent of MessageClass in the OOM) to your published custom form.

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

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

 

[M K W]

Thanx Sue again,

I was wondering if you can provide more help. My message class now is
IPM.Contacts. If you can send me the link of the tool I would be grateful or
explaine more about the CDO 1.21.
Thank you again but this issue is really annoying me...

After running one of the tools or scripts suggested, what is the value of
the MessageClass property on the items in question? If it's still
IPM.Contact.YourCustomForm, then you haven't changed the MessageClass yet
and need to try again, maybe with a different tool. If it's IPM.Contact,
then all the items have one-off forms embedded inside them. To clean up
existing one-off items, use CDO 1.21 to remove MAPI property tags that are
apparently responsible for the one-off behavior, as shown in the sample at
http://www.cdolive.net/download/CleanUpOneOff.zip, and set the Type property
(CDO's equivalent of MessageClass in the OOM) to your published custom form.

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

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

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

More information on CDO 1.21 is available at http://www.cdolive.com and http://www.outlookcode.com/d/cdo.htm

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

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