Hi there,

As I'm new with working with Outlook forms, I'd like to ask for help.

I'm developing an Outlook form for the company I work for. The idea is for people to go the calendar and book a laptop for a certain period of time. The entry will populate the calendar when the form closes. There may be quite a few entries in one day.

The information shown in the entry within the calendar is the number of the laptop, the name of the person who has the laptop. The entries are listed in the order they're created.

I'd like to find a way of sorting the booked entries by laptop number so the are sorted from 1+.

Does anyone know if there's a way to sort the entries?

Many thanks in advance for any help


P

Just use one of the calendar table views, make sure that property is added
both to the items and the folder and show that field in the view using the
Field Chooser and then sort on it.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"cidr" wrote in message
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Hi there,

As I'm new with working with Outlook forms, I'd like to ask for help.

I'm developing an Outlook form for the company I work for. The idea is
for people to go the calendar and book a laptop for a certain period of
time. The entry will populate the calendar when the form closes. There
may be quite a few entries in one day.

The information shown in the entry within the calendar is the number of
the laptop, the name of the person who has the laptop. The entries are
listed in the order they're created.

I'd like to find a way of sorting the booked entries by laptop number
so the are sorted from 1+.

Does anyone know if there's a way to sort the entries?

Many thanks in advance for any help


P




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cidr

Thanks for responding Ken,

I'm not sure how to add the property to the Items and folder (I'm not sure what you mean by item or folder).

I noticed your book, is there a section in there that may help me understand how to do this? I'd be happy to purchase it.

Many thanks

p

There's some stuff on forms in my book, but not in great detail. My book
deals more with COM Addins and FormRegions and such.

Sue Mosher's book is much more oriented towards forms and VBA programming.
You can find a link to Sue's book at www.outlookcode.com, where you'll also
find a ton of information about forms and forms programming.

Take a look at http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=38 for information
about adding fields to a form and what the results are of different ways of
adding those fields. Your goal is to add the field so it's added both to the
item (form) as well as the folder fields.

Once that's done and you use the View menu in Outlook to select a table type
calendar view you can right-click on the column headers in the table view
and select Field Chooser. You can then use the drop-down in Field Chooser to
select User defined fields in the folder and your fields should be listed.
You can then drag a field from the Field Chooser to the column header row of
the view to show the field in that space in the view.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"cidr" wrote in message
...

Thanks for responding Ken,

I'm not sure how to add the property to the Items and folder (I'm not
sure what you mean by item or folder).

I noticed your book, is there a section in there that may help me
understand how to do this? I'd be happy to purchase it.

Many thanks

p




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cidr