OL97: VBScript Example Returns the Current User Name

ID: Q167137

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Outlook 97

SUMMARY

This article describes how to use Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) with Microsoft Outlook 97 to return the current user name.

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The following example uses a message form, one command button, and a message box to return the current user's name.

Creating the Form and CommandButton Control

1. From the Inbox, on the File menu, point to New and click Mail message.

2. On the message form Tools menu, click "Design Outlook Form" to enter

   the form design mode.

3. Click the form (P.2) tab, and on the Form menu, click "Display

   This Page."

4. On the Form menu, click "Control Toolbox." Drag the Command Button

   to the form.

Creating the VBScript to Return the User Name

1. On the Form menu, click "View Code" to open the VBScript editor.

   NOTE: In the following sample code, an underscore (_) at the end of a
   line is used as a line-continuation character. Remove the underscore
   from the end of the line when re-creating this code in VBScript.

2. Type the following code into the editor window:

   'Sub routine that runs when you click CommandButton1
   Sub CommandButton1_Click()
      'Message box that returns the current user's name
      MsgBox "The current user is " & _
         Application.GetNameSpace("MAPI").CurrentUser
   End Sub

3. On the Script Editor File menu, click Close.

4. On the form Tools menu, click "Design Outlook Form" to exit the form

   design mode.

If you click CommandButton1, you will see a message box that contains the current user's name.

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

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Version           : 97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999