Outlook 365 Jump to folder

[Victor_50]

Operating system::    W11 pro
Outlook version:     Classic Outlook
Email type or host:    POP

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For a long time I wanted a way to jump to the folder an email is in. From "Favorites" or from the folder specified in a searchfolder. I recently found VBA code, that worked up to a certain point. But instead of jumping to the folder it jumped to "Notes" in the sidebar. Apparently MS changed something. I wanted to fix this by first jumping to some folder (Inbox) if necessary and then jumping to the real folder. It turns out MS has made referencing folders in Outlook so complex, I couldn't fix this, especially while the new "help" in "learn" really can't learn me anything. My unfinished code:

Public Sub GetItemsFolderPath()
  
  Dim obj As Object
  Dim Vname As Outlook.NameSpace
  Dim Vmapi As Outlook.MAPIFolder
  Dim Vfolder1 As String
  Dim Msg$
  Set obj = Application.ActiveWindow
  Set Vname = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
    
  If TypeOf obj Is Outlook.Inspector Then
    Set obj = obj.CurrentItem
  Else
    Set obj = obj.Selection(1)
  End If
  Set Vmapi = obj.Parent 'real foldername
  Vfolder = Vmapi.FolderPath
  'Debug.Print Vfolder
  If Application.ActiveExplorer.NavigationPane.CurrentModule.NavigationModuleType = 0 Then 'apparently in favorites
     ' Code for jumping to inbox in same store (pst)
  End If
  ' Code for jumping to actual folder in same store (pst)
End Sub

 

[Hornblower409]

I'm not sure I understand your question. Your code already finds the folder that an Item belongs to. It's just "Item.Parent" to get the Folder Object and "Item.Parent.FolderPath" if you want the path to the folder as a string (e.g. "\\Default\Inbox"). This works for most normal Items.

Are you asking how you can then jump to that Folder in the Navigation Pane?

 

[Victor_50]

I'm not sure I understand your question. Your code already finds the folder that an Item belongs to. It's just "Item.Parent" to get the Folder Object and "Item.Parent.FolderPath" if you want the path to the folder as a string (e.g. "\\Default\Inbox"). This works for most normal Items.

Are you asking how you can then jump to that Folder in the Navigation Pane?

Yes, it does find the actual folder from the favorites or the foldername in a search folder (Unread/follow up), though the latter will not work because that search folder is in favorites too, but that is not the problem for now. So that part works. The problem is how to jump to the folder in the folder tree.

 

[Hornblower409]

There is a NavigationPane object. But I don't have any experience using it. Good luck.

NavigationPane object (Outlook)
Display Specific Modules in the Navigation Pane