Calendar Rules

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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.
 
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
 
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
 
It is a web based tool that we subscribe to as a company and it is managed by
the vendor. There is probably a way for it to happen on their end, but they
are telling me that it can't be done. I have to take their word for it and
try to solve it on my end.
 
"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
 
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?
 
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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