How to Customize the Details Template

Details templates control the appearance of object properties that are accessed by using address lists in both Microsoft MS-DOS® 16-bit and MAPI 32-bit client applications. When a user opens an address list in Outlook, for example, the properties of a particular object are presented as defined by the details template in the Exchange organization. You can use the default details template or you can customize the template to better suit the needs of your users. This procedure outlines how to customize the details template.

Default details template as viewed from Outlook 2003

Procedure

To customize the details template

1. In Exchange System Manager, expand the Recipients container, expand the Detail Templates container, and then select the language for the template that you want to modify.

   For example, the English language has been selected in the following figure.

   Selecting English

   

   The following languages are supported:

   Arabic, Basque, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

   Other languages may be supported by the client, but they will not be able to display the Properties pages.

2. In the list of templates displayed in the right-pane, right-click the template to be changed, and then click Properties.

3. On the Templates tab, resize fields, add or remove fields, add or remove tabs, and rearrange the order of the fields.

   Modifying the user details template

   

4. To see how the changes you made affect the template, click Test. To revert to the original template, click Original.