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    #16
    Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

    Hi

    I found Aarons scripts worked perfectly. The only thing I would like to be able to do further is set the date and time of the appointment based on a field the user user defines called flag_date.

    Can the objAppointment.Start value be set dynamically?

    Dave Cassar

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      #17
      Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

      Originally posted by cassard View Post
      Hi

      Can the objAppointment.Start value be set dynamically?

      Dave Cassar
      Yes, but part of the trick is that Outlook is in universal time, so you need to get the time offset (I wrote a function to do this).

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        #18
        Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

        Hi Garry,


        Yes, but part of the trick is that Outlook is in universal time, so you need to get the time offset
        Could you elaborate. What do you mean by the time offset?

        Any chance I could get a copy of your function?

        Thanks

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          #19
          Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

          Dave,
          Think of universal time (UT) as like Greenwich Mean Time - Google universal time to get a good explanation. When you put an appointment into Outlook programmatically it takes the value as UT, so Melbourne is say 10 hrs ahead of MGT and UT. So an appointment for 11am Melbourne time is 1 am UT which is the value you must programmatically put into the applointment. Windows knows your time zone and hence the "offset" and displays it in your calendar as 11am!
          Look at the Alpha function gettimezoneoffset().
          Upon checking my records, the code I wrote was not a fuction but was to send an appointment (*.vcs file) to someone via email - see http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...universal+time

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            #20
            Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

            Is there a way to get this to work from the WAS? More specifically, it DOES work from the WAS but updates the Outlook Calendar that exists on the WASS machine - not what I want. I want the user to be able to run the script and have it update the outlook calendar on THEIR computer.
            Gary S. Traub, Ph.D.

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              #21
              Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

              Hi everyone im a newbie but i have found the code really good but how can i set it up so that the date for the appointment is the same as the field in a form in the table its called tuning date and the table is called customer how can i do this also want the body to me the notes nowing this would help a million as currently print screening everything which is stupid in my eyes and time consuming when changing dates thanks in advance

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                #22
                Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

                David,

                how can i set it up so that the date for the appointment is the same as the field in a form in the table
                from Post #3 code and fill in your table info with using the Filter -- find the records which you need.

                dim objOutlook as P

                objOutlook = ole.create("Outlook.Application")
                objAppointment = objOutlook.createitem(olAppointmentItem)

                objAppointment.Start = "1/16/2007 11:00 AM" <--- your table field name or set to Variables
                objAppointment.Duration = 60
                objAppointment.Subject = "Test Appointment"
                objAppointment.Body = "Test Body."
                objAppointment.Location = "44/2039"
                objAppointment.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 15
                objAppointment.ReminderSet = .t.

                objAppointment.Save()

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                  #23
                  Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

                  excellent thanks a million my next qustion is how can i have a button that will go to a customers own folder i have on a server this is what i have so far

                  '//Open the explorer

                  sys_shell("explorer /e,/root,X:\\")

                  my table name is "Customers" and the unique id is "Customer_ID" there will a folder for each of them named with there id number ideally i would love it if iy would create it if there is not one aswell

                  many thanks

                  from the newb of the century

                  :D

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                    #24
                    Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

                    David,

                    Review this " File Functions and Methods " from the help and this forum.
                    I had the experience for Creating a folder but not opening yet. I still have the conception problem.

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                      #25
                      Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

                      ok hello everyone again

                      heres a question for you ive figured out most things in alpha five now but i was wondering and experimenting with this one at the moment

                      i have set up a button to through info across to outlook no probs from a forms (with currently displayed info ) what i want to find out now is in the body of the appoinment i want to put all the records i have for customer 23 appoinments into the body from my table called appoinments i have tryed creating pdfs etc but no luck i am stumped at the moment any insight on this would be great

                      dave

                      (sorry for my spelling and grammar )

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                        #26
                        Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

                        Better try explaining again. You want to put all outlook appointments for one customer into where? Or you want to put all records from your table or one customer somewhere?
                        There can be only one.

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                          #27
                          Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

                          ok so heres what im trying to do

                          when i make an appoinment i can inout accross all the fields i have currently on my form easy

                          however i have a table linked to my customer table with a id of customer number to link all the appoinments i have created to therer corresponding customer so a customer might have had several appoinments in the past say 1a, 2a, 3a, now when i make appointment 4a --- i can make 4a info go accross onto outlokk straight from the form open however i cant put the past ones in also as they are not shown when making new one but i require this info so that my engineers can se what has been done in the past

                          how can i do this

                          probally not explained well agin but have been under the weather for a long time know and that is the reason also in delay responding thanks for your help

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                            #28
                            Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

                            A form displays one record at a time. A browse displays multiple records in spreadsheet type format. Your description sounds like you want a browse of the "table linked to my customer table" on the form.

                            If the form is based on a set where the customer table is the parent then it should be as easy as using the Object menu while in form design mode, choose New, select Browse, and choose the appointments table.
                            There can be only one.

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                              #29
                              Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

                              Originally posted by Stan Mathews View Post
                              A form displays one record at a time. A browse displays multiple records in spreadsheet type format. Your description sounds like you want a browse of the "table linked to my customer table" on the form.

                              If the form is based on a set where the customer table is the parent then it should be as easy as using the Object menu while in form design mode, choose New, select Browse, and choose the appointments table.
                              hi thanks for the response i have done this sorry didnt explain it properly ------ i want this information transferd to outlook appoinment including the past appoinmnets when i press the booking of the appointment

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                                #30
                                Re: Outlook Calendar and Tasks

                                Without seeing the code you are using now I can only describe what you need to do.

                                You have code that copies info from the appointments table to outlook. You need to modify that code so that instead of copying the current selected record it loops through all of the child table records linked to the current parent.

                                Given a browse on a form the child may be referenced as

                                table.current(#)

                                where # is the vertical position of the child table as viewed in the Edit Set genie. Since only the child table records linked to the current parent are accessible you can (assuming nothing interferes)

                                tbl = table.current(#)
                                tbl.fetch_first()
                                while .not. tbl.fetch_eof()
                                'your present code goes here
                                tbl.fetch_next()
                                end while
                                There can be only one.

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