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Ted - 13 May 2004 11:54 GMT

Hello,

I am a experienced Delphi-programmer, but when it comes to VBA I am a total
newbie. Never had anything to do with that sort of programming.

At work we have a shared agenda in outlook (Groupware). People can add
appointments. On the appointment-form we added some categories to the list.
We would like to make this a mandatory option. people MUST select at least
one category. If possible, I'd rather not have to design a completely new
form or a new tabpage for that matter. I found this example by Sue Mosher (
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms/reqcat.htm
), but like I said: rather not a new form, unless it can't be done in any
other way.

Any help is appreciated,

Regards, Ted

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 13 May 2004 13:05 GMT

The only other approach would be a COM add-in installed on every machine
that monitors that folder for new or modified items. The ItemAdd and
ItemChange event would fire for *every* user *every* time an item changed,
and the add-in would have to sort out which user should actually be prompted
to fix the category. I'm not sure it's possible to make that work at all.
It's certainly a much more complicated solution than a custom form, which
requires no installation on client machines.

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> Regards, Ted

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