How to customize the Advanced Find form

[Pavel Rosoi]

Hello everybody

I am wondering if there is a way to customize the “Advanced Find†window
(Ctrl+Shift+F) via custom forms and VBScript for Outlook 2003.
I want to intercept the Search criterias, the “Find Now†click event and be
able to add my own results into the results list. Thank you.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, that dialog cannot be modified in any way and fires no events.

 

[Pavel Rosoi]

Thank you for your quick answer.
Supposing that the attachments was previously removed from the messages and
archived elsewhere, I want to intercept the search or find, user actions and
obtain the search criteria’s in order to perform my own search. I can’t
figure out how to do that. Could you give me any idea, please?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Again, there is no way to know what the user is searching for with the Advanced FInd window. It is not exposed at all in the Outlook object model.

You can read about the search criteria used by the Find, Restrict, and AdvancedSearch methods in the Help topics for those methods.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Pavel Rosoi]

Thank you for your time.

Again, there is no way to know what the user is searching for with the Advanced FInd window. It is not exposed at all in the Outlook object model.

You can read about the search criteria used by the Find, Restrict, and AdvancedSearch methods in the Help topics for those methods.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Duke2]

But really, I strongly feel there's got to be a way to capture Find events in
Outlook forms. I saw this artcle
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/17/microsoft_whines_over_google_outlook_plugin/)
that talks about how Google has replaced default WDS and offer the same
functionality through Google search. For that to happen Google should be able
to capture the search parameters from Outlook form and pass them into
google's search engine/index I presume.

What Pavel is trying to do is to override Outlook search and amalgamate
results of his own search into Outlook search results, and when you think
about what Google has done I think this is doable, but just dont know how.

Thanks
Duke

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

It's possible to do, but unless you get Google to tell you how they did it
you would need to figure it out yourself. It would be all low level
programming and Win32 API stuff and possibly Extended MAPI.

The Google addin that integrates with Outlook and does that is a real
problem, BTW. It hangs and crashes Outlook in many cases and doesn't play
nice with other addins.