Exchanging information between custom contact forms

[wildthingz]

I am new to outlook and I am currently creating an contacts area for my
organisation using public folders. There are two main types of
contacts - Internal and External, which use different custom forms. I
want to have a drop down list in the External contact form which has
the full names of all the Internal contacts so the External contacts
can select which Internal contact introduced them to the organization.
Is it possible to do this?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes, it's possible to do that. You'd write code behind the form to read the names from the folder and populate the list. Use the Item_Write event handler.

FYI, there is a newsgroup specifically for Outlook forms issues "down the hall" at microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms or, via web interface, at http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...spx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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