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If the form display the separate contact name or heading,
that would be sufficient as long as that heading was
linked to the actual contact card. Here is what we are
doing. I work for an architecture firm where we want to
display project information such as contacts specific to
the project. We use the same consultants on various
jobs. These consultants are divided into different
groups, such as engineers, contractors, product reps, and
village contacts. Each of these groups has its own tab.
In each tab, I want to display the selected contact from
our master address book. On some projects, we use more
than one contact in each tab. So I guess the way I would
like them displayed is the way they are done currently in
the contacts button/field where you click on the name and
the contact card is displayed. But under each tab and in
each contact field, the primary, secondary and tertiary
contacts are individual to each field. Is there a way to
pull that off?
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 09 Aug 2004 19:04 GMT
The display that Outlook provides for linked contacts works exactly the way
you see it, no more, no less. You cannot repurpose it to work some other
way. You will need to design your own mechanisms to allow the user to select
contacts, to display the contacts in the contact form, and to open their
related contact records. If the contact names are unique and all in one
folder, then it wouldn't be too hard to display the Outlook address book,
allow the user to select a name, and store that name in a property on your
item; see http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/selectnames.htm . Note that CDO
or Redemption is required.
You could then add more code behind the form to perform a
MAPIFolder.Items.Find lookup on the target folder to find a contact with a
particular name and then display it.

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> If the form display the separate contact name or heading,
> that would be sufficient as long as that heading was
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> contacts are individual to each field. Is there a way to
> pull that off?