Creation of a holiday form

[Guest]

I am looking to create some custom forms for various activities. The first form we want to create is a
vacation request. To allow automation of this we would like to do the following

The form should be based on the meeting request document, the requester will enter the Holiday Dates in their
Outlook Calendar

1 The Subject should be automatically set to Vacation

2 The status in the requesters Calendar should be marked as tentative

3 This request should then be forwarded by the requester to their manager (to be chosen from the Global address list)

4 The subject line will be Holiday - %USERNAME

5 If Accepted the holiday will be added in to the managers Calendar (but marked as status free) and entered into the
requestors Calendar as status busy. This because whilst the requestor is on holiday the manager is not so should not have his calendar marked as busy

6 If rejected no further action required (as per meeting request

We are using Outlook 2002 and xchange 2000

Is the above possible as I have looked at the way Outlook handles meetings and it seems that you cannot control
what the invited people get as a form and therefore how would you change their meeting status to be marked as
Free

Any thoughts of suggestions gratefully received.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

YOu might want to look at the vacation request form described at
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/oddc2000.htm, the first session on that page.
It has many of the features you're looking for and could be enhanced
further.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I am looking to create some custom forms for various activities. The first form we want to create is a
vacation request. To allow automation of this we would like to do the following.

The form should be based on the meeting request document, the requester

will enter the Holiday Dates in their

Outlook Calendar.

1 The Subject should be automatically set to Vacation.

2 The status in the requesters Calendar should be marked as tentative.

3 This request should then be forwarded by the requester to their manager

(to be chosen from the Global address list).

4 The subject line will be Holiday - %USERNAME%

5 If Accepted the holiday will be added in to the managers Calendar (but

marked as status free) and entered into the

requestors Calendar as status busy. This because whilst the requestor is

on holiday the manager is not so should not have his calendar marked as
busy.

6 If rejected no further action required (as per meeting request)

We are using Outlook 2002 and xchange 2000.

Is the above possible as I have looked at the way Outlook handles meetings

and it seems that you cannot control

what the invited people get as a form and therefore how would you change

their meeting status to be marked as