My custom form is in a public folder.
When two people are in a task and they save it, we get a
conflict message e-mail and it gives us the option of
saving one of the two or both Tasks.

How can I make it so that when someone opens up a task, it
sets it as read only, so that when another person opens
the task it says that it's read only?

My goal is to avoid these conflict messages.

Thanks for your help,
Joel

In Item_Open check a Boolean UserProperty on the item to see if it's True.
If it is someone else has it opened first. Then disallow saving that item
(cancel in Write and you can lock your controls). If it's False set it to
True so other users will see it as read-only. When you exit the form clear
that property back to False.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Joel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1690901c41798$b9ad80c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> My custom form is in a public folder.
> When two people are in a task and they save it, we get a
> conflict message e-mail and it gives us the option of
> saving one of the two or both Tasks.
>
> How can I make it so that when someone opens up a task, it
> sets it as read only, so that when another person opens
> the task it says that it's read only?
>
> My goal is to avoid these conflict messages.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Joel

Ken,

Thanks for your reply. I've been trying this for a while
and can't seem to get it. Do you possibly have a code
sample you could supply me with to get me going in the
right direction? Your help is greatly appreciated.

-Joel

>-----Original Message-----
>In Item_Open check a Boolean UserProperty on the item to
see if it's True.
>If it is someone else has it opened first. Then disallow
saving that item
>(cancel in Write and you can lock your controls). If
it's False set it to
>True so other users will see it as read-only. When you
exit the form clear
>that property back to False.
>
>--
>Ken Slovak
>[MVP - Outlook]
>http://www.slovaktech.com
>Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office
Outlook 2003
>Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
>http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm
>
>
>"Joel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:1690901c41798$b9ad80c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> My custom form is in a public folder.
>> When two people are in a task and they save it, we get
a
>> conflict message e-mail and it gives us the option of
>> saving one of the two or both Tasks.
>>
>> How can I make it so that when someone opens up a
task, it
>> sets it as read only, so that when another person opens
>> the task it says that it's read only?
>>
>> My goal is to avoid these conflict messages.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Joel
>
>
>.
>

'module level declaration:
Dim blnReadOnly

Function Item_Open()
If Item.UserProperties("ReadOnly") Then
blnReadOnly = True
Else
blnReadOnly = False
End If
End Function

'check in Item_Write and if True then Item_Write = False
'in Item_Close if Item.UserProperties("ReadOnly") then set it False and set
blnReadOnly False and save.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Joel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1703001c4182d$cabf8300$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ken,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I've been trying this for a while
> and can't seem to get it. Do you possibly have a code
> sample you could supply me with to get me going in the
> right direction? Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> -Joel

[cjscjs]

Hi Joel,

I have the same issue and was wondering if you could point out what you changed?
I am at lower level VBA and wanted to know if you had the code you used to set the task as read only if someone was editing it - as you wanted in 2004...Many thanks , CJS