Creating an appointment item in a Public Calendar

[Seamus Conlon]

The complete story is that we use Goldmine as our CRM and when a user
schedules an appointment in Goldmine I want that appointment to be
mirrored in our Public Calendar. Goldmine can activate an external
program when an event happens, eg appointment is scheduled, and passes
to the program the record number of the newly created appointment record.
So the plan was to have a VB program that would open the Goldmine
database (a dBase file), read the relevant appointment details and create
an appointment record in the Public Calendar.

I'm not sure how VBscript/VBA within Outlook would work in this case
but I am willing to be advised.

Seamus

Why not just use the Outlook object model to create the item directly in
the
folder, using the MAPIFolder.Items.Add method?

FYI, there is a newsgroup specifically for general Outlook programming
issues "down the hall" at microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba or, via web
interface, at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

In that scenario, you'd definitely use MAPIFolder.Items.Add. There's no need
to resort to CDO.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers