Getting Meeting Information into ASP Sign Out Book

[itfetish]

G'day all,

I've recently created an Electronic Sign Out book for my work, the
page is hosted on the local intranet, and is written in ASP (w/
VBScript) and utilizes MSSQL Server databases.

Users click their name and a html form comes up where they can enter
where they are going, time they are leaving, time they are coming
back, if they are taking a company car, camera etc

What I want to do, is somehow get a link to outlook, so when someone
is about to go out for a meeting, they can simple click a button and
the meeting information will be copied across into the database.

All that I really need outlook to do is to fire up a link with
variables, eg http://intranet/signout.asp?meetingname=site_inspection&outtime=
etc etc

or if it could connect direct to an sql database taht would be good.

the thing is, I dont want all meetings to sign people out, in case
they are just reminders someone has put in their calendar, or anything
else that doesn't require siging out, so there has to be some sort of
choice.

Does anyone have any idea where I would start to do this sort of thing?

 

[Benjamin Gay [MSFT]]

The VCalendar format is pretty simple to create and Outlook supports it.
This might be one of the easier ways to do this. I did a quick search and
came up with the following VB sample at
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/vcalendar.asp that you might find a good
start.