OL97: How to Create a New Item Based on a Custom Form

ID: Q165514

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Outlook 97

SUMMARY

This article describes how you can use Outlook 97 Visual Basic Scripting Edition to create a new item based on a custom form.

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When a form is published in Outlook 97, a message class name is used to identify the form. In VBScript, you can use this class name with the Add method of Outlook's Items collection to create a new item based on the published custom form. To obtain the message class of a custom form, open the custom form and click "Publish Form As" on the File menu. You will see the message class name in the Publish Form As dialog box, for example:

   IPM.Contact.CustomContact

The following steps will enable you to use the message class name and VBScript to create another item or copy of the current form, by adding a command button and the attached VBScript to your custom form.

To create the VBScript and command button follow these steps:

1. Open a custom form.

2. On the Tools menu, click Design Outlook Form.

3. On the Form menu in Design View, click Control Toolbox.

4. Drag the Command Button to your form from the Toolbox.

5. On the Form menu, click View Code to open the Script Editor.

6. In the Script Editor, type the following code and substitute the message

   class name for your custom form:

   Sub CommandButton1_Click()
      Set MyFolder = Item.Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentFolder
      Set MyItem = MyFolder.Items.Add("<IPM.FormType.FormName>")
      MyItem.Display
   End Sub

7. On the File menu in the Script Editor, click Close to return to your

   form.

8. On the Tools menu, click Design Outlook Form to switch out of the Design

   View.

   NOTE: If the Script Editor detects an error in your code, it will
   display a message at this point.

9. On the File menu, click Publish Form As and then click Publish.

10. On the File menu, click Close. Do not save changes when prompted.

REFERENCES

For more information about creating solutions with Microsoft Outlook 97, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   Article-ID: Q166368
   Title     : OL97: How to Get Help Programming with Outlook

   Article-ID: Q170783
   Title     : OL97: Q&A: Questions about Customizing or
               Programming Outlook

Additional query words: OutSol OutSol97

Keywords          :  
Version           : 97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999