How to set a UserProperty in Outlook from VB ?

[frank42]

I am trying to customize Outlook with a macro to add a UserProperty ("color&quot to my MailItems and set it to e.g. "red". I run the following snippet:

Dim myNameSpace As NameSpace
Dim targetFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim myItem As MailItem
Dim myProp As UserProperty

    Set myNameSpace = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
    Set targetFolder = myNameSpace.Folders("Personal Folders").Folders("test")
    Set myItem = targetFolder.Items(1)
    Set myProp = myItem.UserProperties.Add("Color", olText)
        myProp.Value = "red"

references to this in the rest of my macro work fine, but when the macro terminates, I cannot see the property's value in outlook. I can see that a new property has been added to my "test" folder, but item 1 does not have the value "red" and if I run another macro with :

    color = myItem.UserProperties("Color").Value

I get a "Object variable or With block variable not set" error. What am I doing wrong ?

 

[frank42]

I am answering my own question.

All this needed was adding

    myItem.Save

to the end of my snippet. Not obvious if this is the first time you are playing with properties in general and user properties in particular. Took me a while to find it. Hope this saves someone else some time in the future.