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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming Forms / February 2006Custom Button to display on in Contacts view?
I was told by a MS employee in a private newsgroup to ask my question in this public group... Is there an easy way to have a custom button display just for certain item types/forms, e.g. Contacts, ideally without complicated VB programming. More specifically, I created a custom button (method: Customize Toolbar, drag button to tool bar) that is relavent only to Contacts. The problem is that this button now shows up for other item types like Message, Appointment, etc which is confusing to users and undesirable. I got a tip from an Ken Slovak in public VBA newsgroup which gave me some clues on how to approach this via VB (see below) but I just wanted to check here to make sure there isn't another way to do this with less or no programming. I'd also like to avoid having to make a custom form and distribute/install it for each appropriate user. I realize that's what you all do "for a living" but it's not my preferred choice. In my dreams, I would just edit properties of the custom button I just created and click to display on Contacts only... I don't see such a mechanism but anything similar would be awesome! Thanks. -Rich "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslovak@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<OGg5HFJOGHA.3408@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>... > If you handle the NewInspector event of the Inspectors collection and you > are only interested in creating your button for contacts the first step is > to check for contacts when that event fires. That's the code that uses > Inspector.CurrentItem.Class = olContact. If it's anything but a contact > you > don't instantiate the Inspector wrapper. > Code for creating buttons in Inspectors using a wrapper and collection and > creating the actual buttons in the class is available for both VB 6 and > C#. > The C# example is at http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=797 and > the VB 6 code is at > http://www.slovaktech.com/code_samples.htm#InspectorWrapper. That should > get > you started. > Ken Slovak > [MVP - Outlook] > http://www.slovaktech.com > Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 A toolbar button? No, it takes code to detect what kind of folder the user is looking at and display/hide the button appropriately. Ken gave you the right answer. A button on a custom form? Yes, but you said you didn't want a custom form.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I was told by a MS employee in a private newsgroup to ask my question in > this public group... [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] > >> Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Sue, Thanks for confirming that the only way to do this is with code. I'm not sure I understand what question your 2nd reply is to. -Rich A toolbar button? No, it takes code to detect what kind of folder the user is looking at and display/hide the button appropriately. Ken gave you the right answer. A button on a custom form? Yes, but you said you didn't want a custom form. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I was told by a MS employee in a private newsgroup to ask my question in > this public group... [quoted text clipped - 61 lines] > >> Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 A "custom button" could mean either a toolbar button or a button on a custom form. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 67 lines] >> >>> you started. Ah, I see now what you meant. I've been focusing on a custom toolbar button. If I want to improve on this method, I guess I'll give a shot to figuring out Ken Slovak's suggestion. There isn't any pre-made code you know of for displaying buttons only if view/form=xxxx? (e.g. Contacts) -Rich A "custom button" could mean either a toolbar button or a button on a custom form. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 73 lines] >> >>> you started. I thought Ken already explained how to do that with an Inspector wrapper class. The technique for an Explorer wrapper class would be similar, except that you'd use the FolderSwitch event and the DefaultItemType property instead of NewInspector and Class. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Ah, I see now what you meant. I've been focusing on a custom toolbar > button. [quoted text clipped - 87 lines] >>> >>>> you started. |
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