Limited Access to Public Folder

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Chuck Walker

I am creating an app in Access that does scheduling for a doctor's office.
In addition to saving the appointment info in our database, we save the
appointment in an Outlook Public Folder which we want to be viewable by
anyone using Outlook but can only be changed and updated via our app.

Can someone provide help with how to open and use the Outlook object model
as a specific user with update rights to the Public Folder?

Thanks for your assistance.
 
When you create a handle to the Outlook.Application object in your Access
modules, you also need to use the Application.GetNameSpace method to return
a NameSpace object. The NameSpace.Logon method allows you to specify an
Outlook profile associated with a specific user account, and the code will
operate within the context of that user's permissions.

Add the user that your Access app will use as the owner of that public
folder, and give all other user accounts read-only rights.
 
Eric:

Does that mean that an Outlook Profile must be created at each workstation
that will be running the application? And if so, I assume we just create a
user account that will be the owner of the public folders to assign to this
profile.
Is there any other way to have the profile available to everyone?

Thanks for your continued help.

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