Non English contact field names in non English Office causing VB problem

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-mhd - 28 Apr 2005 06:07 GMT

The German version of Outlook uses German language internal field
names.

[German]
Telefon Assistent
Telefon geschäftlich
Telefon geschäftlich 2

instead of

[English]
AssistantTelephoneNumber
BusinessTelephoneNumber
Business2TelephoneNumber

The following statement raises an error because of the space in the
field name.
oContact.Telefon geschäftlich = PhoneNum

whereas
oContact.BusinessTelephoneNumber = PhoneNum naturally works just fine.

How can I get around assigning contact fields with spaces in the name?

Thanks,
-mhd

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Michael Bauer - 28 Apr 2005 07:33 GMT

Hi,

the Object Model doesn´t know any other than english names.

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Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

> The German version of Outlook uses German language internal field
> names.
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> Thanks,
> -mhd

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-mhd - 28 Apr 2005 14:53 GMT

>the Object Model doesn´t know any other than english names.

That's not the experience I had with my German users because when I
switched to using the German field names in a find operation
"ofolder.Items.Find(sFilter)" it quit crashing with an error.

This would make sense because sfilter is a string and allows spaces
but VB objects to the space when used in this manner...
oContact.Telefon geschäftlich = PhoneNum

When I originally Googled on this problem I found out that the
internal names are German and everything worked fine in searches.

Thanks,
-mhd

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Michael Bauer - 28 Apr 2005 15:15 GMT

I´m not sure whether I understand you or not.Regarding to the sample of
your first post: all property names, available via the class names, are
in english only.

If you want to use them in Find or Restrict, then include the strings in
Chr(34), please.

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Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

> >the Object Model doesn´t know any other than english names.
>
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> Thanks,
> -mhd

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-mhd - 28 Apr 2005 15:53 GMT

>I´m not sure whether I understand you or not.Regarding to the sample of
>your first post: all property names, available via the class names, are
>in english only.
>
>If you want to use them in Find or Restrict, then include the strings in
>Chr(34), please.

Hi Michael,

This works
sFilter = "[Telefon geschäftlich] = '+49 (179) 5192032'"
ofolder.Items.Find(sFilter)

This doesn't
oContact.Telefon geschäftlich = PhoneNum

Are you saying that in the second example I must revert back to
English names?

-mhd

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Michael Bauer - 28 Apr 2005 18:55 GMT

Yes. All available properties you can see in the Object Browser. There
is nothing else for your second example.

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> >I´m not sure whether I understand you or not.Regarding to the sample of
> >your first post: all property names, available via the class names, are
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> -mhd

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