Thanks Nigel. I will give that a go.

I recognise you from your Rentman development over here in the UK. I wish you well for the future

Regards
Paul Oxley


>>Hi
>>
>>How do I access/set the contacts field from an appointment object? Contacts and diary events are currently be synchronised but I have been trying to set the companies property to link to contact to the diary event. I have a feeling there is more to this possible the links? Any help is very much appreciated.
>
>Paul,
>
>untested but something like this...
>
>

>#DEFINE olFolderCalendar 9
>#DEFINE olFolderContacts 10
>
>oOutlook = CREATEOBJECT('outlook.application')
>oNameSpace = oOutlook.getnamespace('MAPI')
>oDefaultContactFolder=oNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts)
>oDiaryFolder=oNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderCalendar)
>
>oItems = oDiaryFolder.items
>FOR EACH oItem IN oItems
>	FOR EACH oLink IN oItem.links
>		oLinkItem = oLink.ITEM && this is the contact item
>	NEXT
>NEXT
>
>&& to add a contact
>oLinkItem = oDefaultContactFolder.items.FIND('[Lastname]='+"Bloggs")
>oItem.links.ADD(oLinkItem)
>

>
>
>hth
>
>Nigel