Contacts from Outlook in Infopath-Drop-Down-Box

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Max Plank - 29 Sep 2005 10:27 GMT

Hello to all,

how can I put a Drop-Down-Box in an Infopath Form containing the Names from
my Outlook-Contacts?

THX for response!

CU

Max

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John Sivilla - 30 Sep 2005 16:15 GMT

You can create a Receive Data Connection and select the Sharepoint Library or
List option; enter you Sharepoint site URL and then choice the Contacts List,
and then give it a name.
After this put a drop-down control on your form, right click to view the
properties and in the List Box entries section choose the third option. A
list of possible data connection will be displayed. Choose the one you just
created, and select the field that you want to display as the value and the
text.

hope this helps,

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Max Plank - 03 Oct 2005 18:05 GMT

Hello John,

thanks for your answer, his is an intersting way to do it. But unfortenatly
there is no sharepoint-portal in the network. I did this a time ago with vba
in Word, but i thonk vba is not supported in infopath?

thx

Max

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RaghuRam - 04 Oct 2005 21:47 GMT

Hi ,
Have you figured it out anyway like how to dynamically link the datasouce to
the dropdown? Please let me know if you have figured it out as i want to do a
dynamic binding to the dropdown at runtime.

Regards,
Raghu

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tlsing99 - 12 Oct 2005 18:19 GMT

Maybe you can try to use
Microsoft Active Directory® directory service

go to Lab 15: Managed Code Business Logic in InfoPath 2003
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/infopath/training/default.aspx?pu
ll=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_inf_lab_15.asp

under section "To work with DirectoryServices"

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Bob C. - 06 Jan 2006 14:11 GMT

Somewhat helpful. But think about this scenario. In outlook, Administrative
Asst A is responsible for Worker X, Y and Z. X,Y and Z give A permissions to
their Contacts, and A adds those address books to his/her outlook contacts
folders (Other Contacts). So A now has w/in outlook a sort of reference to
work w/in. Active directory knows nothing of this setup, and the list could
not be smart enough to populate based on this setup.

Thanks for the info, though.

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