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    #1

    Outlook Import

    Hello

    Has any one ever tried to copy and paste an Outlook message into a browse.

    One of our applications stores enquiries based on a set. Customer details as parent and enquiry as child.

    A customer has asked whether it would be possible to copy an Outlook message and paste it directly into the child.

    It would eliminate the tedium of having to save the Outlook message in the folder of the set, and then go and add it as a record to the browse.

    Classic example of where drag and drop would be the ideal solution, but...

    Thank you for your help. It is much appreciated.

    Kind regards

    Alex
    Database Software Solutions Limited
    www.dbasesolution.co.uk
    http://www.precise360.co.uk
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    Re: Outlook Import

    If you have a memo field in the child table you can click-drag-copy the Outlook message from the Outlook window and paste into the memo field in a browse.
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: Outlook Import

      Thanks Stan for your prompt reply.

      One of the problems is that often the Outlook message will have attached drawings.

      Kind regards


      Alex
      Database Software Solutions Limited
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        #4
        Re: Outlook Import

        Alpha dbf's don't have a field type that will allow you to store documents. If you mean you want to copy an Outlook message and its attachments and put that into an Alpha dbf table field, I don't believe you're going to have any luck.
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          Re: Outlook Import

          Have you looked at the Alpha email reader that can retrieve emails and use xbasic to process the email and it's attachments?

          https://www.alphasoftware.com/docume...Automation.xml
          Al Buchholz
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            #6
            Re: Outlook Import

            >>Has any one ever tried to copy and paste an Outlook message into a browse.

            You can use OLE automation to read the text of any Outlook folder and/or message. You can retrieve the "Outlook fields" (sender, to, subject, body, etc. as text) and then programmatically create the appropriate record in your Alpha table with the information from the Outlook email. I do this in several apps and it works quite nicely.

            Some sample code to get you started is below.

            'Create Pointer to Outloop
            DIM objOutlook as P
            objOutlook = ole.create("Outlook.Application")

            'BEGIN CODE 02/06/2013 to check which version of Outlook user is running. If user is running prior to Outlook 2010 then the value of the variable will be less than 14
            'Outlook 2010="14.0.0.6126"
            DIM vOutlookVersion as C
            vOutlookVersion=objOutlook.version
            vOutlookVersion=substr(vOutlookVersion,1,2)


            'Create the namespace object
            ole_namespace = objoutlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")


            There is quite a bit of information about OLE at Microsoft MSDN on everything you can retrieve. If you want a more complete example, let me know and I can put something together.

            Regards,

            Jeff

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              Re: Outlook Import

              You can use OLE automation to read the text of any Outlook folder and/or message. You can retrieve the "Outlook fields" (sender, to, subject, body, etc. as text) and then programmatically create the appropriate record in your Alpha table with the information from the Outlook email. I do this in several apps and it works quite nicely.

              Hi Jeff

              What about writing the attachments to another table?

              Kind regards


              Alex
              Database Software Solutions Limited
              www.dbasesolution.co.uk
              http://www.precise360.co.uk
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                Re: Outlook Import

                Hi Alex,

                I have never messed with the attachments...but I know that option exists using OLE. I have been retrieving the sender, subject, body, etc. and writing that data to fields in a table. As far as the attachments go, I think I would save the attachment off to a specified structured directory system and then record that path in a character field in a table and then use sys_open() to use the default Windows app to open the file from inside of Alpha.

                Regards,
                Jeff

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