ViewField Object

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Outlook Developer Reference

Represents a view field, used to display information in a view.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Outlook 2007

Remarks

Use the Add method of the ViewFields collection to add an Outlook item property to the following objects derived from the View object:

Use the ColumnFormat property to access the ColumnFormat object representing the display properties associated with the view field. Use the ViewXMLSchemaName property to obtain the name of the view field as referenced in the XML definition of the view.

Example

The following Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) example iterates through the ViewFields collection of the current TableView object, displaying the label and XML schema names of each ViewField object in the collection.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Private Sub DisplayTableViewFields()
    Dim objTableView As TableView
    Dim objViewField As ViewField
    Dim strOutput As String
    
    If Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentView.ViewType = _
        olTableView Then
        
        ' Obtain a TableView object reference for the
        ' current table view.
        Set objTableView = _
            Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentView
        
        ' Iterate through the ViewFields collection for
        ' the table view, obtaining the label and the
        ' XML schema name for each field included in
        ' the view.
        For Each objViewField In objTableView.ViewFields
            With objViewField
                strOutput = strOutput & .ColumnFormat.Label & _
                    " (" & .ViewXMLSchemaName & ")" & vbCrLf
            End With
        Next
        
        ' Display a dialog box containing the concatenated
        ' view field information.
        MsgBox strOutput
    End If
End Sub

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