Importing contacts from another application using a custom form

[Guest]

I have created and published a custom form and it works fine - eg. when creating new contacts etc

However, when I import contacts that were generated by a business card scanning program, Outlook assigns the message class "IPM.Contact.OlTrans"

I have already used Forms Administrator to point the existing IPM.Contact message class to the custom form, but there is no option to change the "IPM.Contact.OlTrans"

How do I change this "IPM.Contact.OlTrans" to use my custom form

Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You need to change the MessageClass on the existing items to point to your
new form's class. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm#convert for several tools
and scripts to accomplish this.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I have created and published a custom form and it works fine - eg. when creating new contacts etc.

However, when I import contacts that were generated by a business card

scanning program, Outlook assigns the message class "IPM.Contact.OlTrans".

I have already used Forms Administrator to point the existing IPM.Contact

message class to the custom form, but there is no option to change the
"IPM.Contact.OlTrans".