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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerSeptember 23, 2002 at 12:40 pm in reply to: Inbox Field Chooser made folder unreadable (Outlook 2k) #619054Try from the Start >Run command: Outlook /cleanviews
This should reset the Views in outlook folders, including Inbox, back to the defaults.Hope this helps
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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerGlad this was of help
For your Exchange connection issue, have you tried setting up a offline (.ost) file as part of you exchange settings? This will synchronise with your mailbox folders when connected, and allow you to see the contents when offline. There’s much more about this in the outlook help file, so forgive me if i don’t go into to much detail here.
Hope this helps
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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerI would make a guess that you are using the same .PST (data) file for both profiles
Make a copy and configure one of the outlook profiles to use the copy instead.Hope this helps
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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerI would suggest mail merge to Word “mailing lables” of the size of the rolodex cards (you may be able to get a template from Rolodex)
Hope this helps
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WSRknott
AskWoody Loungerif you are going to try this, I had this code you can add this to the item send event
Sub SendnFile()
On Error GoTo errh
set namesp = Application.GetNamespace(“MAPI”)
Set imItem = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
If imItem.Class 43 Then GoTo ends
Set imItem.SaveSentMessageFolder = namesp.pickfolder
imItem.Send
GoTo ends
errh:
res = MsgBox(“There must be at least one name or distribution list in the To, Cc or Bcc box.”, 48, “Microsoft Outlook”)
ends:
End Sub
hope this helps
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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerYou can add VBscript to the form that fires when you click the button
e.g
Sub Button1_Click()
item.move (myfolder)
item.save
you will need a lot more than this!
end sub
or you could capture the item_close event to fire your code
However, saying that, for a similar task I used VBAProject.otm, and added a button to the tool bar which would move an item and save it
Sub File()
On Error GoTo errh
Set inbox = Application.GetNamespace(“MAPI”).GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set imItem = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
imItem.move inbox.Folders(“Filing”)
imitem.save
GoTo ends
errh:
res = MsgBox(“Cannot move item”, 48, “Microsoft Outlook”)
ends:
End SubHope this makes sence and is of use
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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerHere’s a thought: It could be the attachment encodeing.
Not all email system like MIME, which is the default for most windows based email programs.
When composing the message (if you are using normal Outlook, I can’t remember how to do this in OE) select File>Properties and click on Send options.
You should have the option to change the attachment format in the email
Experiment with the various formats to see if this resolves the problem.Hope this helps!
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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerYou will have to select each folder item in the folders collection of your Myfolders object after the line you have there.
Search for mail items in each of those and away you go! -
WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerOnly thing I’ve seen is:
Hidefax
Hope this helps -
WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerWe use iManage DMS with their Infolook 2.x and Mailsite 3.0 products, which integrates into Outlook. We currently only use Outlook2000 so I haven’t see this. We use ODMA for PowerPoint 2000 and Visio 2000 connectivity to the DMS, and iManage’s COM object integration for Word and Excel.
Although Mailsite integrates into Outlook as a MAPI provider, normal Outlook functions like “save attachment” are not aware of the DMS, so users are still capable of saving file outside the secure, resilient, backed up DMS system, and onto their C drive.
I would very much like all Outlook file access procedures to be ODMA aware as this would greatly reduce the risk of lost data to us.
Hope this helps
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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerCorporate mode should be using MAPI
if you have MS Word 97or 2000 or 2002, check to see if you can mail merge from the Outlook address book (not the Windows address book, that isn’t MAPI for some reason)
There are a number of free tools out there which also use MAPI (Messaging Application Programming interface).
What Software are you using? There maybe people who have the same experience with it -
WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerSod it, Wrote my own. Doesn’t have all the features of the Outlook Version, but should do the job:
(CDO 1.2.1)
Dim oSession As MAPI.Session
Dim oReps As Recipients ‘not realy needed but useful if i reuse the code for something elseSub main()
If oSession Is Nothing Then
Set oSession = CreateObject(“MAPI.Session”)
End If
‘logon to the session
oSession.Logon ShowDialog:=True, NewSession:=False
On Error GoTo ABend ‘mainly if user hits cancel
Set oReps = oSession.AddressBook(, “Address Book”, , , 0, , , , 0)
ABend:
oSession.Logoff
Set oSession = Nothing ‘clear session
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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerInteresting, but not quite: This app was even simpler, basically just the address book dialogue from Outlook.
We use Exchange and have a GAL, as well as public contact lists, so the workgroup features of this product would not be useful. However i may come back to it later.
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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerUK- One or two letter postal area prefix, with sub area 1 or 2 digit code, followed by a 3 to 4 character code for groups of 14 houses eg:
N6 4AA or TW19 5BB
France uses 5 or 6 didget codes eg 75010, as does Germany, Russia uses 6, Belgium 4.
Ireland last time I checked doesn’t use post codeshope this helps
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WSRknott
AskWoody LoungerYou can’t have “:” in a file name, which you get if you use “time”
You could use the messages Entry ID as a varible, which it gets when you send it.
Or put the email into a public folder, which was part of a Outlook Forms Helpdesk system I created from the example application Microsoft have.Hope this helps
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