outlook forms for exporting holidays and formatting

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Hello everyone,

I am struggling to create an Outlook form that will allow my users to import
holidays (without creating duplicates) and also allows them to import
autoformatting that makes all holiday labels red in color.

If anyone can steer me in the right direction I will be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance,
Joseph
 
Thank you very much for your response!

I was confused as to which holidays to include into the form. Using the
sample Transmit Holidays form, should I include a master list of holidays
which includes those holidays the user already has installed? or should I
only include the holidays they don't have installed already to avoid
duplication of holidays?

Also, if I have 3 holidays to transmit, for example, do I create 3 sets of
the following properties and put them into a new folder? and where is the
Date property in this?

Subject
Start time
End time
All-day event
Reminder (True or False)
Reminder time
Show time as (Free = 0, Tentative = 1, Busy = 2, OutOfOffice = 3)

Thanks again for your help,
Joseph
 
You put in the folder whatever holidays you want the user to add. The form
code contains no check to see if the user has already added them.

You do not need to create "3 sets" of anything. Just create an appointment
in the source calendar folder for each holiday or event you want to include
in the transmittal item, the run the form following the instructions
provided.

Start time and End time are date/time properties.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thank you Ms. Mosher,

I see what you are saying and understand now the tutorial. However, I notice
differences between the holidays that I added as events to the calendar and
the holidays I imported. It is creating a circular arrow symbol representing
a recurring event and also is missing "(united states)" next to it compared
to the imported holidays. How can I make it look the same?

And the holidays I imported have a red label according to a rule I created.
When creating holiday events do I simply change the label to red on each
one?

Verifying what you said, forms don't have the capability to carry those red
labels over to the users?

Thanks again.. I promise those are my last questions about forms!

Joseph
 
Please disregard that last question. I got it to work. The only question I
have is how I can edit the wording of certain text on the final form the
user sees.

The reason is.. I am creating 2 forms: one for users that only need to
update their Outlook for new holidays(preventing duplicates) and another for
those that need the entire year of holidays.

Siby
 
Which version did you download? The revised version (link in the top
section) adds support for the Location field (e.g. United States).

What is your red label rule?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
What text?
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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