How do I publish a custom contact form to a public address book.

[jmash777]

When trying to publish a custom contact form to a public address book, the
form changes from a "contact" entry to a "post". What am I doing wrong?
We are using Outlook 2003 & Exchange server 2003.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Explain what you're doing in more detail, along with the symptoms that.
Publishing locations can include folders, but not address books.

 

[jmash777]

We made an address book in a public folder. What we want to do is customize
the form for adding and editing individual contacts to this address book. We
created the form with no problem. Our problem came in when trying to publish
it. We published it to the address book and selected it to be the default
when creating a new contact. The form comes up as the default, but the form
is a "post", not a "contact" listing. We think that the actual publish step
of where we publish to is our our problem. We don't seem to have access to
the "organizational library".

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

We made an address book in a public folder. What we want to do is

customize
the form for adding and editing individual contacts to this address book.
We
created the form with no problem. Our problem came in when trying to
publish
it. We published it to the address book

Then you mean you published the form to a public contacts folder?

The form comes up as the default, but the form
is a "post", not a "contact" listing.

Comes up when? New contacts? Existing items? Do you mean that it has the
layout of the built-in post form, not your contact form?

We think that the actual publish step
of where we publish to is our our problem. We don't seem to have access to
the "organizational library".

And you don't need it, since you're not publishing there.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[jmash777]

Yes, we published the form to a public contacts folder.
The form comes up as the default to create a new contact as desired.
However, yes the entry is layed out as a "post" not a "contact".

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

What's the message class for the published form, in other words the value in
the Message Class field for an item created with the form?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[jmash777]

IPM.contact.contact8 is what I publish it as. I published it to the
personal forms library. When i go to the properties and then try to select
the form from the library. The message class on is IPM.contact.contact8 but
the description has a "post icon" in it. When I create a contact using it
and close and save it; it saves as a post. I not sure how to see the message
class on the contact itself.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

So the only problem is the icon, not the contact form layout itself? I wish
you would have said so earlier. You apparently didn't set an icon on the
form's (Properties) page.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[jmash777]

No......the icon is correct before publishing the form, but changes after
being published (to the "post" icon). Where can we set this on the properties
page?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Open the form in design mode. Go to the (Properties) page. Look on the
right-hand side.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[jmash777]

Thank you!!!!!!

Open the form in design mode. Go to the (Properties) page. Look on the
right-hand side.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers