ViewFields Object

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Outlook Developer Reference

Represents the collection of ViewField objects in a view.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Outlook 2007

Remarks

The ViewFields collection represents the Outlook item properties available for display in the view. Use the Add method of the ViewFields collection to add a view field for the following objects derived from the View object:

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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