Newbie Questions

Re: Connecting to outlook contacts

Kalyan Gaddam — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:35:44 GMT

Hello

Here is a blog whoch talks about attaching Outlook address book from Infopath
http://blogs.msdn.com/timpash/archive/2005/10/31/Invoke-GAL-From-InfoPath.aspx

Re: Connecting to outlook contacts

Clay Fox — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:20:02 GMT

It can be done, but probably not easily. I believe you would need a fully trusted form and code to harvest contacts from Outlook.

You could export contacts to excel or a database and then access them pretty easily using standard methods but of course you would need to update your list from Outlook frequently.

You also maybe interested in our Active Directory Web Service. If you need name, email, manager, etc for users in your domain then that can be done pretty simply using the web service.

Otherwise you need code or to keep your contact list in XML, SharePoint, a Database table, etc.

Qdabra Database Accelerator Suite Version 2.1 - Developer

Connecting to outlook contacts

Chris Sutcliffe — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:13:03 GMT

I'm not a programmer so please bear with me. I have been using infopath for about 3 days but now need it to connect to my outlook contacts. Can this be done? and perhaps more importantly can it be done easily...I dont like the 1's and zeros you see ;-)

Thanks in advance

Chris