Amend Contact Form

Hi, I'm trying to add a new field to the Outlook Contacts Form. Have managed
to get into the Design of the Form and added the field and then publish it -
giving it the same name - Contacts Form. However, it won't work! Doesn't
keep the field I've added when I got into New Contact. Any help appreciated.
Thanks. Sally T

Details, details:

1) Outlook version

2) Where did you publish the form?

3) Did you follow any of the normal procedures to make it your default form?
(See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm)

4) What kind of field did you add? What is different about the way you see
the contact when you first create it and after it's saved?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"sally t" wrote in message
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Hi, I'm trying to add a new field to the Outlook Contacts Form. Have
managed
to get into the Design of the Form and added the field and then publish
it -
giving it the same name - Contacts Form. However, it won't work! Doesn't
keep the field I've added when I got into New Contact. Any help
appreciated.
Thanks. Sally T

Sorry Sue!
Outlook XP 2002. Have now managed I(thanks to your link) to make the new
form the default and it works. New field is a text field. However, is there
a way of amending all existing Contacts (already entered) to also use this
form with the new field or is there no chance of that?
Many, many thanks.
Sally T

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Details, details:

1) Outlook version

2) Where did you publish the form?

3) Did you follow any of the normal procedures to make it your default form?
(See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm)

4) What kind of field did you add? What is different about the way you see
the contact when you first create it and after it's saved?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"sally t" wrote in message
...
Hi, I'm trying to add a new field to the Outlook Contacts Form. Have
managed
to get into the Design of the Form and added the field and then publish
it -
giving it the same name - Contacts Form. However, it won't work! Doesn't
keep the field I've added when I got into New Contact. Any help
appreciated.
Thanks. Sally T

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
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"sally t" wrote in message
...
Sorry Sue!
Outlook XP 2002. Have now managed I(thanks to your link) to make the new
form the default and it works. New field is a text field. However, is
there
a way of amending all existing Contacts (already entered) to also use this
form with the new field or is there no chance of that?
Many, many thanks.
Sally T

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Details, details:

1) Outlook version

2) Where did you publish the form?

3) Did you follow any of the normal procedures to make it your default
form?
(See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm)

4) What kind of field did you add? What is different about the way you
see
the contact when you first create it and after it's saved?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"sally t" wrote in message
...
Hi, I'm trying to add a new field to the Outlook Contacts Form. Have
managed
to get into the Design of the Form and added the field and then publish
it -
giving it the same name - Contacts Form. However, it won't work!
Doesn't
keep the field I've added when I got into New Contact. Any help
appreciated.
Thanks. Sally T