Applescript & Outlook; make new contact

Question

Hi all,
I'm working on an Applescript that will allow me to create a new contact in Outlook.
This is what I have thus far based on some old Entourage code and the Applescript Outlook dictionary:
  tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
  activate
  make new contact with properties {display name:displayName, home street address:theAddress, home city:city, home state:theState, home zip:zip, phone:thePhone}
  quit
  end tell
Alas, it fails and tosses back an Event handler error.
Any thoughts?
-Julian

Answer 1

Try this --
set FirstName to "Barack"
set LastName to "Obama"
set theAddress to "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW"
set city to "Washington"
set theState to "DC"
set zip to "20500"
set thephone to "[phone]"
set jobtitle to "President of the United States"
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
activate
          set mycontact to make new contact
open mycontact
          tell mycontact
                    set properties of mycontact to {first name:FirstName, last name:LastName, home street address:theAddress, home city:city, job title:jobtitle, home state:theState, home zip:zip, phone:thephone, email addresses:{{address:"**** --> (my guess)", type:work}}}
          end tell
end tell
I changed the name property from display name to first name last name. As default, what is display name uses first/last. To get other contact properties I asked a script to get the properties of a contact. That is how I got the email address part.
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