Views Object

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Contains a collection of all View objects in the current folder.

Remarks

Use the Views property of the Folder object to return the Views collection. Use Views(

index

),where

index

is the object's name or position within the collection, to return a single View object.

Use the Add method of the views collection to add a new view to the collection.

Use the Remove method to remove a view from the collection.

Example

The following example returns a View object of type olTableView called Table View. Before running this example, make sure a view by the name 'Table View' exists.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub GetView() 
    'Returns a view called Table View
    Dim objName As NameSpace
    Dim objViews As Views
    Dim objView As View

Set objName = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objViews = objName.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Views
'Return a view called Table View
Set objView = objViews.Item("Table View")



End Sub

The following example adds a new view of type olIconView in the user's Notes folder.

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The Add method will fail if a view with the same name already exists.
Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub CreateView()
    'Creates a new view
    Dim objName As NameSpace
    Dim objViews As Views
    Dim objNewView As View

Set objName = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objViews = objName.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderNotes).Views
Set objNewView = objViews.Add(Name:="New Icon View Type", _
                 ViewType:=olIconView, SaveOption:=olViewSaveOptionThisFolderEveryone)



End Sub

The following example removes the above view, "New Icon View Type", from the collection.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub DeleteView()
    'Deletes a view from the collection
    Dim objName As NameSpace
    Dim objViews As Views
    Dim objNewView As View

Set objName = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objViews = objName.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderNotes).Views
objViews.Remove ("New Icon View Type")



End Sub

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