Inbox Rule: Auto Print Attachments

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Alan in NJ

The following properly prints the attachments to a selected email in the
Inbox, but am trying to use it as a script in a Rule that only runs for a
particular sender. I believe the problem that I am not "selecting" the
just-received email that triggers the rule. Any help would be appreciated

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _
ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, _
ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
Sub PrintAttachment(Item As Outlook.MailItem)



Dim myItems, myItem, myAttachments, myAttachment As Object
Dim myOrt As String
Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
Dim myOlExp As Outlook.Explorer
Dim myOlSel As Outlook.Selection
Dim strFile As String

'Set destination folder
myOrt = "C:\program files\microsoft office\"


On Error Resume Next
'work on selected items
Set myOlExp = myOlApp.ActiveExplorer
Set myOlSel = myOlExp.Selection
'for all items do...
For Each myItem In myOlSel
'point on attachments
Set myAttachments = myItem.Attachments
If myAttachments.Count > 0 Then
'for all attachments do...
For i = 1 To myAttachments.Count
'save them to destination
myAttachments(i).SaveAsFile myOrt &
myAttachments(i).DisplayName
strFile = myOrt & myAttachments(i).DisplayName

ShellExecute 0&, "print", strFile, 0&, 0&, 0&
NextOne:

Next i

myItem.Save

End If
Next
Set myItems = Nothing
Set myItem = Nothing
Set myAttachments = Nothing
Set myAttachment = Nothing
Set myOlApp = Nothing
Set myOlExp = Nothing
Set myOlSel = Nothing



End Sub




AlanNJ
 
Don't loop through the Explorer.Selection, but use the Item object that is
passed as an argument. Then edt the rule to call the script only if the
e-mail comes from the particular sender.

And, please, delete the
Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
line.

As Outlook already runs your code you must not try to create a new instance
of it. Then replace 'myOlApp' simply by 'Application'.

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Keep your Outlook categories organized!
http://www.shareit.com/product.html?productid=300120654&languageid=1
(German: http://www.VBOffice.net/product.html?pub=6)


Am Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:11:05 -0500 schrieb Alan in NJ:
 
Many thanks, Michael.

I removed the loop, deleted the ref to Dim myOlApp, and inserted the
following with the name of the sender instead
of the NOS:

Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set myFolder = _
myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set myItem = myFolder.Items.Find _
("[SenderName] = 'NOS")


I think it should work, though not as clean as you would do. Any comments
would be appreciated as I am trying to get better at this!

Alan
 
Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
and
Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
and
Set myOlApp = New Outlook.Application

are almost equal. From within Outlook don't use that. And then replace the
remaining 'myOlApp' by 'Application'. The reason is that Outlook runs
already, don't try to create a new instance (which however doesn't work but
may cause problems).

As I understand you, you have a rule calling that script for a particular
e-mail. In that case the rule passes a reference to the e-mail to the
script, it's the 'Item' variable in the script declaration. So there's no
need to search for the item again, neither by a loop or the Find function.

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Keep your Outlook categories organized!
http://www.shareit.com/product.html?productid=300120654&languageid=1
(German: http://www.VBOffice.net/product.html?pub=6)


Am Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:57:12 -0500 schrieb Alan in NJ:
Many thanks, Michael.

I removed the loop, deleted the ref to Dim myOlApp, and inserted the
following with the name of the sender instead
of the NOS:

Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set myFolder = _
myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set myItem = myFolder.Items.Find _
("[SenderName] = 'NOS")


I think it should work, though not as clean as you would do. Any comments
would be appreciated as I am trying to get better at this!

Alan





Michael Bauer said:
Don't loop through the Explorer.Selection, but use the Item object that is
passed as an argument. Then edt the rule to call the script only if the
e-mail comes from the particular sender.

And, please, delete the
Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
line.

As Outlook already runs your code you must not try to create a new
instance
of it. Then replace 'myOlApp' simply by 'Application'.

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Keep your Outlook categories organized!
http://www.shareit.com/product.html?productid=300120654&languageid=1
(German: http://www.VBOffice.net/product.html?pub=6)


Am Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:11:05 -0500 schrieb Alan in NJ:
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with a lot of help from Killian posting this on
http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb/getarticle.php?kb_id=522
I used the following sollution for this problem
1. make a new map in outlook
2. make a rule to move specific mail with attachments to move to that folder
3. find selfcert.exe in the office directory and make a selfsigned
certificate (this is to prevent annoying macro security messages later)


Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _
ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, _
ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
Option Explicit
Dim WithEvents TargetFolderItems As Items
'set the string constant for the path to save attachments make sure this
path excists

Const FILE_PATH As String = "c:\temp"

'###############################################################################
'### this is the Application_Startup event code in the ThisOutlookSession
module
Private Sub Application_Startup()
'some startup code to set our "event-sensitive" items collection
Dim ns As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim Gebruikersnaam As String
Set ns = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
'This part makes sure the full path name of the outlook folder is taken
(including username) make sure this
'is too in your case
Uname= ns.CurrentUser
Set TargetFolderItems = ns.Folders.Item("Postbus - " &
Uname).Folders.Item("your folder").Items

End Sub


'###############################################################################
'### this is the ItemAdd event code
Sub TargetFolderItems_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)
'when a new item is added to our "watched folder" we can process it
Dim olAtt As Attachment
Dim i As Integer

If Item.Attachments.Count > 0 Then
For i = 1 To Item.Attachments.Count
Set olAtt = Item.Attachments(i)
'save the attachment
olAtt.SaveAsFile FILE_PATH & olAtt.FileName

If UCase(Right(olAtt.FileName, 3)) = "PDF" Then
PrintPdf (FILE_PATH & olAtt.FileName)

End If
Next
End If

Set olAtt = Nothing

End Sub


'###############################################################################
'### this is the Application_Quit event code in the ThisOutlookSession module
Private Sub Application_Quit()

Dim ns As Outlook.NameSpace
Set TargetFolderItems = Nothing
Set ns = Nothing

End Sub

'###############################################################################
'### print routine
Sub PrintPdf(fFullPath As String)

ShellExecute 0&, "print", fFullPath, 0&, 0&, 0&



End Sub
'################################################################################
'###############################################################################

4. add from the menu Extra a digital signature to the macro you created
earlier
5. after starting outlook again you select allways trust this publisher


Any ideas about fixing the problem with printing multiple pdf attachments
that not all documents are printed.... perhaps a sleep somewhere?
(possible by making a seperate module with Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32"
(ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) in it)
 
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