Address Book "New Entry" Form

[samearle]

Using Outlook 2003, I've written a new contact entry form with the
additional fields I need. I then published that form both to my local
contacts folder, personal forms library, and to a public contacts
folder.

I've specified the public contacts forlder as the address list to show
first in Outlook Address book. Also, I've specified the public contacts
folder as the place to keep personal addresses. Both of these were
specified in the Outlook Address Book Options menu.

Additionally, I've specified this new form as the default "when posting
to this folder, use:" in the all contact folders properties.

ISSUE:

When I click "New Entry" in the Outlook Address Book, it does not use
this form, it uses the old standard contact entry form.

How can I change this?

Thanks,

Sam

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you have Outlook 2000 or later, you can make a registry change to substitute your custom form for the default form. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm#changedefault . Note that it doesn't work completely for message forms in Outlook 2003.

But the better solution, IMO, is to train users to enter contacts directly in the desired contacts folder, not through the address book.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[samearle]

IT is my understanding from you, that the forms administrator you
suggested will change the default contact form from "IPM.Contacts" to
my Custom Form "IPM.Contacts.MarketingContactsForm" in Outlook 2003????

Thanks

S.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes, that's what it does, if you follow all the steps, which are a little involved, since the original tool was not written for Outlook 2003.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[samearle]

"If you have Outlook 2000 or later, you can make a registry change to
substitute your custom form for the default form. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm#changedefault . Note
that it doesn't work completely for message forms in Outlook 2003."

"if you follow all the steps"

Only steaps I can figure are, specify which form you want to substitue
with your custom form, specify the custom form for coposing and specift
custom form for reading.

In my case, if I wanted to chand the compase form, I'd input
IPM.Contacts.MarketingContactsForm correct???? I'm a little scared to
try witout making sure.

Thanks,

Sam

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

In my case, if I wanted to chand the compase form, I'd input

IPM.Contacts.MarketingContactsForm correct????

Yes, assuming that's the message class of your published custom form.

Sounds like you didn't read all the instructions yet. You must export the .reg file and edit it, then import it.

If it doesn't work as you want it to, you can always edit the registry to remove the entry.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers