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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming Forms / January 2004What permission to access a hidden item
I've created a hidden item into a public folder which should be used as a storage point for counters. Now users who are granted to create and delete items in this folder (and they can)cannot modify properties on this hidden item. The Item is accessed by script code from a custom form. Was the hidden item created using CDO in the Folder.HiddenMessages collection? If so there is no access to that collection either from the Outlook UI or from the Outlook object model. If you created the item in a different way please explain how you did so and if the item is visible to the users of that folder. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginners Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > I've created a hidden item into a public folder which should be used as a > storage point for counters. Now users who are granted to create and delete > items in this folder (and they can)cannot modify properties on this hidden > item. The Item is accessed by script code from a custom form. Hi ken, yes I used the indications you gave me in a previous thread abd I created this hidden item with CDO using the hiddenmessages collection. I'm accessing the Item from the script with CDO. But I had to give users 'Owner' permission to the folder otherwise they couldn't modify the custom property holding the counter value. Max Carussi - [JAD - MS Platform] > Was the hidden item created using CDO in the Folder.HiddenMessages > collection? If so there is no access to that collection either from [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > hidden > > item. The Item is accessed by script code from a custom form. So what is the question then? A hidden item by definition is never seen in the UI. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginners Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > Hi ken, > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > property holding the counter value. > Max Carussi - [JAD - MS Platform] Hi Ken, the user creates a new folder entry by posting a custom form. When the form is posted the script code inside it (within the write event) looks for a specific hidden item (it uses CDO to perform this operation) in the same folder whose message class is "IPC.Counters", reads a custom property named counter and increments it. I gave the users permission to read,write and delete any items in the folder but not the ability to delete or add subfolders to this folder. It happened that the hidden item couldn't be updated. So I extended the permission to 'Owner' and now it works fine. The fact is that I'd prefere not to give such a wide permission o prevent the user to accidentally remove the folder or add subfolders to it or change the folder permissions. Max > So what is the question then? A hidden item by definition is never > seen in the UI. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > property holding the counter value. > > Max Carussi - [JAD - MS Platform] Did you try one of the "publishing" permissions? I suppose another alternative would be to use a specific dynamic logon to CDO instead of a piggy-backed logon. In that case you could use logon information that has permissions as Owner. You could encrypt that information in the registry or an INI file or something and read it in and decrypt it on the fly so it wouldn't be hard coded into the form code. See some of the different logon code samples at www.cdolive.com/cdo5.htm for examples of using different logons in CDO. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginners Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > Hi Ken, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Max |
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