categories in outlook contact is what kind of data type?

[ka]

Hello --

Using vbscript, I can successfully get the value of the "Categories" control on the "General" tab of my modified outlook contacts form. However, I can't do anything with it because I keep getting a type mismatch!!! I've tried everything... using Cstr(strCategories) to turn it into a string, assuming that it is an array of keywords and trying to find what i want in it with the Filter() function.

I want to do an if/then statement where I basically say, IF this contact has this category in it's list, THEN only activate some custom created controls and fields on anther page. But I can't seem to parse that category variable to see if it contains what i'm looking for.... I can display it with a MsgBox (so i know I have it) but i can't do anything more than that.

Outlook 98 on exchange 5.5 on nt 4.0. vbscript.dll is version 5.

Any advice/comments appreciated.

Susan

 

[cthaxter]

Can you post a sample of your code so we can see more exactly where your problem might lie?

-Christopher