Write to Appointment headers??

I have a custom solution that pushes Appoinments from a Public Exchange
folder to users' mailboxes using a custom Outlook Appt. form. Since
management of these Appts. occurs in the Public folder users' changes to
their local copies are discarded on Item_Write().

I would like to be able to notify users when they open their local copy that
it is essentially "Read-only". Currently I am doing this with a MessageBox, I
would prefer to display a message on the form instead of all the dialogs.

Is it possible to write to the box that displays above the Subject line for
a past Appt.? On a Mail item this box would display text like "You forwarded
this message" and I believe you can modify a Mail item's Internet headers to
put your own text here. (I used to know how to do this, any help here also
appreciated!)

I have tried modifying the Appts FlagRequest, FlagStatus properties but they
do not show when the Appt. is opened, only in a Table View when I add these
fields.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Jim Leach

The InfoBar is not exposed to your code. You can however modify the Caption
property of the Inspector to include "read-only" or whatever.

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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


"Jim Leach" <JimLeach DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a custom solution that pushes Appoinments from a Public Exchange
> folder to users' mailboxes using a custom Outlook Appt. form. Since
> management of these Appts. occurs in the Public folder users' changes to
> their local copies are discarded on Item_Write().
>
> I would like to be able to notify users when they open their local copy
> that
> it is essentially "Read-only". Currently I am doing this with a
> MessageBox, I
> would prefer to display a message on the form instead of all the dialogs.
>
> Is it possible to write to the box that displays above the Subject line
> for
> a past Appt.? On a Mail item this box would display text like "You
> forwarded
> this message" and I believe you can modify a Mail item's Internet headers
> to
> put your own text here. (I used to know how to do this, any help here also
> appreciated!)
>
> I have tried modifying the Appts FlagRequest, FlagStatus properties but
> they
> do not show when the Appt. is opened, only in a Table View when I add
> these
> fields.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Leach