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Thank you for the additional information.

Basically, you can’t combine the two. The View Designer is more or less a closed system.

Depending on the nature of the appointment item, I would consider creating the entire view using Formativ, and defining a custom message type to handle the message. This gives you complete control over the behavour of the message. You would write an applet that included event handlers for the OnOpen event that discarded the standard GroupWise behavour and displayed your form instead. You can use the Name completion control (on the GroupWise tab in the component palette) to handle the recipient fields. You would have to use memo controls, etc, to handle the body field, etc.

This approach means you have to implement your own send processing. i.e. you supply a send button, and when it’s pressed, you write code that creates a draft appointment, assigns the appropriate properties, then finally sends the message. This is much easier than it actually sounds! Let me know if you are not really sure about how to go down this path and I’ll see if I can dig up an example.

To open a named view, you can do something like this:

Call GroupWise.ViewOpenFile(“C:NovellGroupWiseOFVIEWSWINusml_p.vew”, “”, “”)

I hope this helps.

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