Contact Item Follow Up Field

[Guest]

Outlook 2000
I have been writing some VB code to copy information from one contact item
to another in a public folder. The code looks for duplicate "FileAs" names
and copies data from the body and from some custom fields. However I cannot
seem to find how to access the Follow Up field for a contact item. The
FlagStaus, FlagRequest and FlagDueBy properties seem to only to apply to a
MailItem. Any ideas on how I can copy these fields in VBA.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Those fields aren't easily accessible and not from the Outlook object model.
You'd have to use CDO 1.21 (optional installation with Outlook 2000 and
later) or Extended MAPI (C++ or Delphi code only) or Redemption (3rd party
library located at www.dimastr.com/redemption).

You can find the property tags you will need to get ReminderSet,
FlagRequest, FlagDueBy, ReminderTime and ReminderMinutesBeforeStart from the
tags for contacts and tasks at www.cdolive.com/cdo10.htm. Where a contact
tag isn't listed it's the same as for a task item.

In the case of a contact reminder the FlagDueBy and ReminderTime values
would be the same and ReminderMinutesBeforeStart always equals 0.

You can also use OutlookSpy (www.dimastr.com) to view those properties when
you add a reminder to a contact or other type of item.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that.

Those fields aren't easily accessible and not from the Outlook object model.
You'd have to use CDO 1.21 (optional installation with Outlook 2000 and
later) or Extended MAPI (C++ or Delphi code only) or Redemption (3rd party
library located at www.dimastr.com/redemption).

You can find the property tags you will need to get ReminderSet,
FlagRequest, FlagDueBy, ReminderTime and ReminderMinutesBeforeStart from the
tags for contacts and tasks at www.cdolive.com/cdo10.htm. Where a contact
tag isn't listed it's the same as for a task item.

In the case of a contact reminder the FlagDueBy and ReminderTime values
would be the same and ReminderMinutesBeforeStart always equals 0.

You can also use OutlookSpy (www.dimastr.com) to view those properties when
you add a reminder to a contact or other type of item.