Access Outlook Contact Groups with Automation?

[xazzy]

Hi

Outlook 2007 allows you to organize your contacts into groups (which are independent of folders and categories).

Is there any way to programatically access the group information for a contact?

TIA

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Do you mean distribution lists? Contacts don't store distribution list
membership information. That info is only in the DLs themselves.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"xazzy" <xazzy.4082ga@invalid> wrote in message news:xazzy.4082ga@invalid...
>
> Hi
>
> Outlook 2007 allows you to organize your contacts into groups (which
> are independent of folders and categories).
>
> Is there any way to programatically access the group information for a
> contact?
>
> TIA
>
>
> --
> xazzy
> http://forums.slipstick.com
>

[xazzy]

> Do you mean distribution lists?

Hi Sue,

Perhaps you missed that "feature" in Outlook 2007 like me ;-)

In Outlook 2007 select the Contacts Display panel. Below the "Current View" box is "Add New Group", which basically creates a new header into which you can drop your contacts folders...

(Tried to attach a screenshot but the forum limit of 1KB of attachments prevented that).

TIA

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

That's called a navigation pane group. It's not specific to contacts.

What is it that you want to do with it?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"xazzy" <xazzy.40bm8a@invalid> wrote in message news:xazzy.40bm8a@invalid...
>
>> Do you mean distribution lists?
>
> Hi Sue,
>
> Perhaps you missed that "feature" in Outlook 2007 like me ;-)
>
> In Outlook 2007 select the Contacts Display panel. Below the "Current
> View" box is "Add New Group", which basically creates a new header into
> which you can drop your contacts folders...
>
> (Tried to attach a screenshot but the forum limit of 1KB of attachments
> prevented that).
>
> TIA
>
>
> --
> xazzy
> http://forums.slipstick.com
>