Article ID: 241188
Article Last Modified on 9/29/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q241188
SYMPTOMS
An initial value for the Categories field does not work on a custom Outlook form.
RESOLUTION
Use an Item_Open event in Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) to set the initial value of the Categories field. The following VBScript code will set the Categories field to Personal only when a new item is created:
Sub Item_Open()
If Item.CreationTime = #1/1/4501# Then
' A new item is being launched, so set the Categories field
Item.Categories = "Personal"
End If
End Sub
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
This problem did not exist in Outlook 97 or 98. In Outlook 2000, the problem also does not occur if you use a user-defined field of type keywords, or if you use a different standard keywords field, such as the Company field on a task form.
REFERENCES
For additional information about keywords fields and using them from VBScript, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
201099 OL2000: Working with Keywords Fields from VBScript
For additional information about available resources and answers to commonly asked questions about Microsoft Outlook 2000 solutions, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
146636 OL2000: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions
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