Distributing Company Events via Outlook

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We use a meeting request to get company holidays and events on people's
calendar. These are events that have a stop and start time--not an all day
event. We're looking for an easier way to send these out en masse. I came
across this site: http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms/holiday.htm but couldn't
get it to work correctly. Everything works correct up to the point where the
user opens the email I send. There is no "Add Holidays" button embedded in
the final email the user gets. I see the % delimited text in the body of the
message but no button.

Is the above solution supposed to work in Outlook 2003? I tried using HTML
and Rich Text to no avail. Email editor is set to Word. Any help is
appreciated. TIA.
 
Gunnertac said:
We use a meeting request to get company holidays and events on
people's calendar. These are events that have a stop and start
time--not an all day event. We're looking for an easier way to send
these out en masse. I came across this site:
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms/holiday.htm but couldn't get it to
work correctly. Everything works correct up to the point where the
user opens the email I send. There is no "Add Holidays" button
embedded in the final email the user gets. I see the % delimited text
in the body of the message but no button.

Is the above solution supposed to work in Outlook 2003? I tried using
HTML and Rich Text to no avail. Email editor is set to Word. Any help
is appreciated. TIA.
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After you've created your .hol file, just double-click it. It works for me.
 
The solution I referred to is not the .hol file solution. That works fine for
getting holidays in that show at the top of the daily calendar. The solution
I refer to inserts timed duration events into the calendar. This helps
immensely because those items then show up in Free/Busy where the typical
holiday does not. Thanks.
 
Gunnertac said:
The solution I referred to is not the .hol file solution. That works
fine for getting holidays in that show at the top of the daily
calendar. The solution I refer to inserts timed duration events into
the calendar. This helps immensely because those items then show up
in Free/Busy where the typical holiday does not.
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I get it. If I have time, I'll try it as well to see if I see what you see.
 
I got it to work. The key was to create an Orginizational Library and publish
the form there, rather than to the public folder I was using. It works like a
charm. Thanks for your help.
 
Gunnertac said:
I got it to work. The key was to create an Orginizational Library and
publish the form there, rather than to the public folder I was using.
It works like a charm. Thanks for your help.
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Clearly, you solved the problem yourself without my help, and I'm glad.
 
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