Hi, I have a mailbox on Exchange 2007. I use Outlook 2003 client. I have created a custom contact form in Outlook and published it to my contacts folder. I then created some contacts in Outlook using the custom contact form. When I tried to use Outlook Web Access (OWA) to open the contacts that I had created using the custom contact form, the contacts were shown as read-only. Is this the expected behavior? What do we need to do to see the contact editable in OWA? How is the behavior w.r.t. Exchange 2003? Thanks
It's not exactly expected behavior: You should be able to edit the contacts using the normal OWA interface. You should not, however, expect to see your custom form in OWA. Custom Outlook forms work with desktop Outlook only, not with OWA. I've cross-posted this reply to the microsoft.public.exchange.clients newsgroup in hopes that someone there can shed light on your OWA issue. You might want to add information on what folder these contacts are stored in. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Adi" wrote: > Hi, > > I have a mailbox on Exchange 2007. I use Outlook 2003 client. I have > created > a custom contact form in Outlook and published it to my contacts > folder. I > then created some contacts in Outlook using the custom contact form. > When I > tried to use Outlook Web Access (OWA) to open the contacts that I had > created using the > custom contact form, the contacts were shown as read-only. Is this > the > expected behavior? > > What do we need to do to see the contact editable in OWA? How is the > behavior w.r.t. Exchange 2003?
The question here is regarding editing Contacts from OWA (Exchange 2007) that were created using custom form in Outlook 2003. When such contacts are opened in OWA (Exchange 2007), they appear read-only. Where as with OWA (Exchange 2003), the contacts are opened in the default Contact form and are editable. The contacts were stored in the Mailbox-Contact folder which are accessible through OWA as well and the custom contact form was published in "Personal Folders Library". Let me know if more information is required. Thanks.
Hi, I have added following in the microsoft.public.exchange.clients group and will follow up there. Meanwhile if you have any answer, do let me know. "The question here is regarding editing Contacts from OWA (Exchange 2007) that were created using custom form in Outlook 2003. When such contacts are opened in OWA (Exchange 2007), they appear read-only. Where as with OWA (Exchange 2003), the contacts are opened in the default Contact form and are editable. The contacts were stored in the Mailbox-Contact folder which are accessible through OWA as well and the custom contact form was published in "Personal Folders Library". " Let me know if more information is required. Thanks.
