Macro Create Contact and Save

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The following code creates a new contact from my form but it will not save and the error is that the parameter value is not valid....what can we do to fix this please?

Sub OpenMyContact()
Dim oContact As outlook.contactItem
Dim oFolder As outlook.MAPIFolder
Set oFolder = Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts)
Set oContact = oFolder.Items.Add("IPM.Contact.Contact Form 1.")
oContact.Display
End Sub
 
I'm guessing the problem is not with the macro but with the form, probably with one of the custom fields, specifically one of the values in the fields. you'll need ot figure out which field is the problem - look on the All Fields page and check the user defined fields.
 
How does looking a the All Fields page and check the user defined fields show what there is a problem?
 
Look at the fields that have values. Does anything look amiss? Are other fields reading values from other fields? Are any of the fields without values set to require a value? (It's not the right error message for that though.)

You'll probably need to open the form in the forms designer and check the properties of each custom field - one option is to delete fields that have values, one at a time, and use run this form and try to save it to identify the field that has a bad parameter. As long you do don't publish the form, you won't lose the fields you delete.
 
The following code words fine, no problems and it runs another I created named "PastetoFullName" so when I create the contact, it adds to the Full Name of the contact name I copied from somewhere else....and it put's it in a folder as you see...but, is there away that it creates the contact to a folder I select, not the folder name I put in? This way, I don't have to move contacts all the time etc.

Sub NewContactFromNameSelected()
Dim oContact As outlook.contactItem
Dim oFolder As outlook.MAPIFolder
Set oFolder = Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts).Folders("New Contacts")
Set oContact = oFolder.Items.Add("IPM.Contact.Contact Form 1")
oContact.Display
Call PastetoFullName
End Sub
 
I looked at some other codes re folders and I changed the foregoing to the following, and it creates the contact using my form to the selected folder:

Sub NewContactFromNameSelected()
Dim oContact As outlook.contactItem
Dim oFolder As outlook.MAPIFolder

Set oContact = Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentFolder.Items.Add("IPM.Contact.Contact Form 1")
oContact.Display
Call PastetoFullName

End Sub
 
There may be other areas again to do things faster, but given how you gave me a form of a code where when I run it, it adds to the fields of the contact a create, I can call that macro at the end of the code I showed, so it will add to the fields immediately when I create the contact....so also I don't know to mark the last answer as a marked answer...but I so appreciate all you have shown me over the time!!
 
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