Calendar Rules

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Fishman4

I have a Business Application that generates automated emails to specific
recipients when certain conditions are met. Is there a way to populate the
body of the email with information and have a rule turn it into a meeting
request for the recipient? The automated email can only be an email and not
a request. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

Only if you can install code on the recipients' machines. It's not clear whether your recipients are inside your organization, and thus potentially under your control, or outside.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

The best solution would be to write an Outlook add-in (see http://www.outlookcode.com/d/comaddins.htm ) to parse the message text and use its information to create new appointments (not meeting requests, but appointments) in the user's Calendar folder. The add-in would need to be installed on every recpient's machine.

Why can't your application just create meeting requests in the first place.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

"Won't" is more likely than "can't," given that there is an Internet specification for calendar interchange (iCalendar) that would allow them to generate meeting requests that Outlook or another other iCal-supporting application could read.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Fishman4

I'm sure that you are right and if I loosened the purse strings and offered
to pay, they would probably have 15 different ways to do it for me.

As for the book you referenced....I am not a programmer, however I do have
limited knowlegde/experience with this stuff. I do some VB stuff in excel.
Will I be able to understand what I am reading? Or will this task likely be
over my head?
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

Writing the Outlook code itself isn't hard. Building and deploying a COM add-in can be quite a bit harder, depending on the development platform you decide to use. If you want to try VBA before you do that, see http://www.outlookcode.com/d/distributevba.htm

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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