Suppressing Outlook Field Printing

Question

Hi,

We have written an add-on for Outlook that files emails into our CRM system. Int he process of this, it saves the Outlook Message ID as a UserField on the Message itself.

eg.

currentUserProperty = Constants.APPLICATION_NAME + "EntryID";
mailItem.UserProperties.Add(currentUserProperty,
       Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlUserPropertyType.olText,
       Missing.Value,
       Missing.Value).Value = entryId;

Unfortunately, this is a HUUUGGEE number, much like:

"00000000D502D779150E2F4580B1AADDF04ECDA6070097EF5A1237597748A4B4F9BFF540020800000006E9E4000068BB5B6DFC36924FAEC709A17D056583000002DE0E350000"

The problem is that when the user prints the message off, Outlook insists on including this field (beneath the From/To) and because it has no spaces, cannot wrap the ID and compresses the A4 page until it can fit on horizontally. This produces teeny-tiny email printouts.

Is there any way I can correct this? I had thought of overwriting the field OriginalEntryID (which is the one causing the problem) with one delimited by spaces but I get an exception from the COM layer. My next stop is to try and suppress the output of this and other user-defined fields on Outlook stationary.

Does anyone know how this can be achieved?

Answer 1

I think this might be able to help me:

http://www.add-in-express.com/forum/read.php?FID=5&TID=5071#postform