Customising Contacts "General" screen to view Journal Entries

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Using design mode, I have tried to modify the "General" page in "Contacts" to show all journal entries made for each contact, i.e. show journal entries for John Smith on the general page of John Smith's contact record instead of the plain "notes" box that is shown as standard but I cannot get it to show the information, only the labels.

I want to use Outlook as a contact DB instead of ACT, so that when I speak to a contact I can simply press the "New Journal Entry for Contact" button I have put on the tool bar and then when it has been saved, it shows up on the General page instead of having to go to the Activities page and display Journal Entries.

Your help/advise would be appreciated

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You would have to place code in the form to search in the Journal
folder's Items collection for each item that has a matching
ContactItem as a Link in the item's Links collection. Each Link item
is a contact (Item.Links.Item(i) = ContactItem). The you would use
those matches to populate your control. See the Object Browser help on
the Links collection and Link items for some sample code.

Using design mode, I have tried to modify the "General" page in

"Contacts" to show all journal entries made for each contact, i.e.
show journal entries for John Smith on the general page of John
Smith's contact record instead of the plain "notes" box that is shown
as standard but I cannot get it to show the information, only the
labels.

I want to use Outlook as a contact DB instead of ACT, so that when I

speak to a contact I can simply press the "New Journal Entry for
Contact" button I have put on the tool bar and then when it has been
saved, it shows up on the General page instead of having to go to the
Activities page and display Journal Entries.