Open meeting request using standard form

[GR]

Hi All,

I have a COM Add-In (in VB) that is called by an action button on a
command bar. This dll creates a new meeting request using a customized
form (based on the Outlook Meeting Item) and then mails in to everybody
as needed. All this works fine.

What I want to know though is if there is a way to have the recipients
use the standard Outlook meeting form when they double click on the
invite in their mailboxes instead of the custom form that was used to
create it by the meeting host. Note that in this case, the recipient
also has the custom form and dll loaded on their machine. I only want
that form to be used when someone is creating a new meeting request
(via clicking on the command bar button) and are the host. When they
are just a recipient to the meeting request, I want them to open the
item using the standard Outlook meeting form just as they would see if
they received a standard meeting invite from an Outlook user.

I have tried changing the item.messageclass properyty back to
"IPM.Appointment" before sending but this has not helped.

Any other ideas? Thanks.

-George

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That's not possible with a custom form, at least not as you describe it. Have you thought about using separate compose and read layouts so users who receive the item see a different layout than the sender?

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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