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Reads the contact before the current contact in a Lotus Notes or Outlook address book.
Caution: This function cannot be used to read the previous contact found in the address book of an Outlook Express messaging.
When reading a contact, the data of this contact is updated in the Contact structure. To retrieve the data of the current contact, simply retrieve the values from the Contact structure.
Example
// Start a Lotus Notes session
SessionID is int
SessionID = EmailStartNotesSession("Password", "MarsServer", ...
"email/julia.nsf", "C:\Lotus Notes\julia.id")
// Read the last contact
ContactLast(SessionID)
// Add the contacts found into a List Box control
WHILE mContact.Out = False
ListAdd(LIST_ContactList, mContact.Name + TAB + mContact.FirstName)
ContactPrevious(SessionID)
END
Syntax
<Result> = ContactPrevious(<Session identifier>)
<Result>: Boolean
  • True if the previous contact was read,
  • False otherwise. To get more details on the error, use ErrorInfo with the errMessage constant.
<Session identifier>: Integer
Session ID to be used. This identifier is returned by one of the following functions: EmailStartNotesSession, EmailStartOutlookSession, NotesOpenDatabase or OutlookStartSession.
Remarks

Current contact

The mContact.Out variable is used to find out whether a current contact exists.
Component: wd290com.dll
Minimum version required
  • Version 11
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Last update: 07/21/2022

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