Retrieve Name from the Contacts in the Appointment form cookiesncreamychoc[ at ]hotmail.com 3/15/2006 5:57:40 AM Hi All, I'm trying to populate the Body in the Appointment Form based on the value (not the contact) entered in the Contacts box. Basically, the user enters Number in the Contacts Box and clicks a button in the Standard Bar and the Body gets populated from the data in the database. The problem is I cannot retrieve the Name from the Links collection as the Appointment has not been saved yet. I can retrieve values entered in the Subject field, Location field so there must be a way to retrive the value in the Contacts box. I just don't know how??? Thanx

Re: Retrieve Name from the Contacts in the Appointment form "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" <suemvp[ at ]outlookcode.com> 3/15/2006 1:51:00 PM The Links collection works a little bit differently from simple text fields. I don't know of a workaround to avoid having to save the item. -- Sue 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 <cookiesncreamychoc[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1142402260.258347.194060[ at ]i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi All, > > I'm trying to populate the Body in the Appointment Form based on the > value (not the contact) entered in the Contacts box. > Basically, the user enters Number in the Contacts Box and clicks a > button in the Standard Bar and the Body gets populated from the data in > the database. > The problem is I cannot retrieve the Name from the Links collection as > the Appointment has not been saved yet. I can retrieve values entered > in the Subject field, Location field so there must be a way to retrive > the value in the Contacts box. > I just don't know how??? > > Thanx >