Set Gender of contact

[talentfrei]

Hi,

can someone please post a sample on how to set the gender for a contact. I have no idea on how to do it, because contact.setGender() is not available.

Thanks for your help

Andi

[OS-JaR]

Hi @talentfrei ,

I think there is no EWS-Contact Gener Property. You have to use/set/read extended properties.Try this code example:

ExtendedPropertyType gender = new ExtendedPropertyType();
gender.ExtendedFieldURI = new PathToExtendedFieldType();
gender.ExtendedFieldURI.PropertyTag = “0x3a4d”;
gender.ExtendedFieldURI.PropertyType = MapiPropertyTypeType.Short;
gender.Item = “0”;

You have to 'translate' it to Java, but it should be nearly the same....

See the gender documentaion: PidTagGender

Greetings/Grüße Jan

[talentfrei]

HI @OS-JaR,

thank you for your quick reply!I have already tried something similar to create a new contact with gender attribute. Sadly it is not working:

//New contact Contact contact = new Contact(service);

//1st Try

ExtendedPropertyDefinition gender = new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(0x3a4d,MapiPropertyType.Short);
contact.setExtendedProperty(gender,1);

//2nd Try

ExtendedPropertyDefinition gender = new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(0x3a4d,MapiPropertyType.Short);
contact.getExtendedProperties().setExtendedProperty(gender, 1);

//Save Contact contact.save();

I get error: The value of the extended property is inconsistent with its type

BR

Andi

[bassngom]

//1st Try

ExtendedPropertyDefinition gender = new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(0x3a4d,MapiPropertyType.Short);
contact.setExtendedProperty(gender,1);

this is how I usually do. It worked fine but now i note that the gender is not correctly displayed in outlook (2013). In a another version, an ID is displayed in place of the gender.

Now I'm lookingfor the best manner to deal with gender in EWS.