[SOLVED] How to Add a Distribution List Item to a Distribution List?

How to Add a Distribution List Item to a Distribution List?

I am attempting to add multiple child distribution lists as members of a parent distribution list through Outlook 2010 VBA.

The basic code that Sue Mosher posted online (where objItem is the child DL, as discovered via a For/Next loop) is:

Set objRecipient = Application.Session.CreateRecipient(objItem.Subject)
objRecipient.Resolve
objDistributionList.AddMember objRecipient

This is adding the child DL as "contact" rather than a member linking to the original child DL.
When I open the member, which is supposed to be the child DL within the parent DL, it appears as an email contact with an "UNKNOWN" email address.

Solution

You cannot do that in the Outlook Object Model.
You can try to use Redemption (I am its author), which exposes RDODistListItem.AddContact method - it will let you pass ContactItem as well as DistListItem object as a parameter.