ContactsView

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03/29/2023

The ContactsView element defines a search for contact items based on alphabetical display names.

<ContactsView MaxEntriesReturned="" InitialName="" FinalName="" />

ContactsViewType

Attributes and elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
MaxEntriesReturned	Describes the maximum number of results to return in the FindItem response.
InitialName	Defines the first name in the contacts list to return in the response. If the specified initial name is not in the contacts list, the next alphabetical name as defined by the cultural context will be returned, except if the next name comes after FinalName. If the InitialName attribute is omitted, the response will contain a list of contacts that starts with the first name in the contact list. This attribute is optional.
FinalName	Defines the last name in the contacts list to return in the response. If the FinalName attribute is omitted, the response will contain all subsequent contacts in the specified sort order. If the specified final name is not in the contacts list, the next alphabetical name as defined by the cultural context will be excluded. For example, if FinalName="Name", but Name is not in the contacts list, contacts that have display names of Name1 or NAME will not be included. This attribute is optional.

Child elements

None.

Parent elements

Element	Description
FindItem	Defines a request to find items in a mailbox. The following is the XPath expression to this element: `/FindItem`

Remarks

The schema that describes this element is located in the EWS virtual directory of the computer that is running MicrosoftExchange Server 2007 that has the Client Access server role installed.

Example

The following example of a request demonstrates how to find the first three contacts starting with the contact that has the display name of Kelly Rollin.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
               xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
               xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
               xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
  <soap:Body>
    <FindItem Traversal="Shallow" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages">
      <ItemShape>
        <t:BaseShape>IdOnly</t:BaseShape>
        <t:AdditionalProperties>
          <t:FieldURI FieldURI="contacts:DisplayName"/>
        </t:AdditionalProperties>
      </ItemShape>
      <ContactsView MaxEntriesReturned="3" InitialName="Kelly Rollin" />
      <SortOrder>
        <t:FieldOrder Order="Descending">
          <t:FieldURI FieldURI="contacts:DisplayName"/>
        </t:FieldOrder>
        </SortOrder>
      <ParentFolderIds>
        <t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="contacts"/>
      </ParentFolderIds>
    </FindItem>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Element information

Element	Example
Namespace	http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages
Schema Name	Messages schema
Validation File	Messages.xsd
Can be Empty	False

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