Creating new entities for the Outlook Synchronization solution results in empty synchronized entries

After setting up a new synchronization entity in Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 to synchronize a specific Dynamics NAV table to Microsoft Outlook, the result of the first synchronization is that empty records are being created. E.g.:

The reason for this is that table 5304, field 15, contains a Read-Only Status field set to Read-Only in Outlook:

These fields are not synchronized because they are marked as Read-Only in Outlook. This property is retrieved from MAPI for each field. The default entities are generated via CU5300 where the fields are inserted via code. As a work around we suggest one of these 2 options:

1) remove the validation in COD5300 in ValidateOItemPropertyName trigger

[BEFORE]

IF TempOSynchLookupName.FINDFIRST THEN BEGIN 
  InputString := TempOSynchLookupName.Name; 
  OPropertyInfo := OObjInfo.GetProperty(TempOSynchLookupName."Entry No."); 
  IsReadOnly := OPropertyInfo.IsReadOnly; 
  EXIT(TRUE); 
END;

[AFTER]

IF TempOSynchLookupName.FINDFIRST THEN BEGIN 
  InputString := TempOSynchLookupName.Name; 
  OPropertyInfo := OObjInfo.GetProperty(TempOSynchLookupName."Entry No."); 
  //IsReadOnly := OPropertyInfo.IsReadOnly; 
  EXIT(TRUE); 
END;

2) Add default customization through code, the same as it is done for the default entries APP, CONT_SP, etc.

For instance, please do have a look at COD5300 triggers :

CreateDefaultContPers 
CreateDefaultContComp 
CreateDefaultContSp 
CreateDefaultTask 
CreateDefaultApp

Lines like the below one are used for inserting the fields in table 5304:

InsertOSynchField(OSynchEntity.Code,0,OSynchEntity."Table No.",OSynchEntity."Outlook Item",'BusinnessAddress', 
  FALSE,FALSE,0,2,'',0);

NOTE: any entities created before this code adjustment will have to be recreated.

This issue does not occur in Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1.

Regards,

Marco Mels
CSS EMEA

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