How to present a list of messages in an Outlook custom form?

[Radost]

Hi, All!

In our organization we've been using public folders and Outlook custom forms
for some of the internal communication and tasks.

Now I need to extend one of the forms to show a list of messages at its
bottom part. The list must look similarly to the list of messages in the
Inbox (to have several columns and possibility to sort by clicking on a
column title).
My questions are:
Which control should I put on the form to present such list of messages?
Can I also programmatically choose which columns to be presented in the
list?
Can some of the columns present custom properties defined in an Outlook
form?

I'd be much obliged for any help on this matter!

Best Regards, Radost

 

[Helmut Obertanner]

i would put an outlook viewcontrol on the form.
you can attach an folder and a custom outlook-view to it.
that should do it.

regards,

--
regards,
Helmut Obertanner
DATALOG Software AG
http://www.datalog.de
[obertanner at datalog dot de]

 

[Radost]

Dear Sue,

Thank you very much for the your answer!

I took a look at the slipstick.com controls page. After following several of
the links I discovered that the help about Outlook View control must be in
OVCtl.chm help file, located in a subfolder of the Team Folders Kit. It
seems Microsoft does not support Team Folders anymore, so I can not get to
this help file. Any idea where I can find it?

I'd like to give here some information about our work environment and what
list of items I like to present.
We use Outlook 2000 and Exchange 2000. I have to develop an Outlook 2000
custom form, in which I have to present list of items, but not items,
existing only in one folder, but in several. I need to present items,
complying to some conditions.

For now it seems to me, that Outlook View Control is related to only one
folder.
Also, it seems, that in Outlook 2000 there is no good way to filter
programmatically the items I like to show in the Outlook View Control.

Is this correct?

What I need is just the same look as the folder view, but not connected to
one folder and with programmatic interface, so I can populate it with
outlook items only for visualization.

Is there anything suitably for such task?

As a work around I could probably use the Outlook View Control in the form
several times, to show views of the application related folders. But in this
case at least I'd like to be able to select only part of the items for
visualization, not all the contents of the linked folders.

In brief, this is the problem, I'm trying to find a solution to.
Your opinion and advice on this matter will be invaluable for me!

Best regards, Radost

 

[Sue Mosher]

The page I suggested includes a link to the OVC
documentation download, which covers both Outlook 2000
and 2002 (and 2003 for that matter)

The OVC, like an Outlook view, can present only items in
a single folder and can be filtered with the Restriction
or, in Outlook 2002, Filter property. If you need to a
consolidated view of multiple folders, you will need to
use some other method -- possibly writing code to
populate a listview control, which will need to be
installed on each machine.

-----Original Message-----

I took a look at the slipstick.com controls page. After following several of
the links I discovered that the help about Outlook View control must be in
OVCtl.chm help file, located in a subfolder of the Team Folders Kit. It
seems Microsoft does not support Team Folders anymore, so I can not get to
this help file. Any idea where I can find it?

I'd like to give here some information about our work environment and what
list of items I like to present.
We use Outlook 2000 and Exchange 2000. I have to develop an Outlook 2000
custom form, in which I have to present list of items, but not items,
existing only in one folder, but in several. I need to present items,
complying to some conditions.

For now it seems to me, that Outlook View Control is related to only one
folder.
Also, it seems, that in Outlook 2000 there is no good way to filter
programmatically the items I like to show in the Outlook View Control.

Is this correct?

What I need is just the same look as the folder view, but not connected to
one folder and with programmatic interface, so I can populate it with
outlook items only for visualization.

Is there anything suitably for such task?

As a work around I could probably use the Outlook View Control in the form
several times, to show views of the application related folders. But in this
case at least I'd like to be able to select only part of the items for
visualization, not all the contents of the linked

folders.