Setting display name for a distribution list in Outlook

[ErikJan]

Manipulating Outlook distribution lists via VBA. All works fine.

One small question... I see in the Outlook address book that a DL has a "Name" and a "Display name". At this moment in time, they are the same. It would be great if the "Name" would stay the same but if I could change the "Display Name". I can't do that manually and quite frankly, I don't know if I could do that through code... My idea is to add a date to the display name. That way, if I update my DL, it will overwrite the old one (as the "Name" field is the same), but still the user sees when the DL was created....

So... my DL is named "myDL" and each new one therefore overwrites the old one. The display name would however be something like "myDL 2011.12.31"...

Here's parts of how I'm doing things now...

Creating a DL

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    Set olDL = olApp.CreateItem(7)    'olDistributionListItem
    olDL.DLName = DLName
    ' Create dummy mail
    Set olMail = olApp.CreateItem(0)    'olMailItem

Then add recipients to the MailItem:

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 Set olRec = olMail.Recipients.Add(RecipName)

Then add the recipients to the DL and save it:

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    olDL.AddMembers olMail.Recipients
    olDL.Save

Does anyone know? Maybe something like olDL.DLDisplayName???

[HansV]

That doesn't seem to be possible. The only relevant properties of a DistListItem object are DLName and Subject, but changing one of these sets the other to the same value.
(There is also a property TaskSubject. This can be set separately, but as the name indicates, it is only used when the DL is marked as a task)

[ErikJan]

Thanks Hans... I couldn't find it either. Strange that MS included the "Display Name" as header but don't do anything with it... Maybe I'm not surprised :-) but I thought I'd try