auto create of Task in shared public folder from client's Contact file

[Mark Kamoski]

Hi--

Please help.

I need to be able to...

....open a Contact on my local workstation from my local OST folder...

....click a button...

....and have the contact information copied to a Task object....

....add some text and then have the Task saved into a shared public Tasks
folder for all to see...

....any ideas?

Is the best way to do it?

Is there another workflow that would make more sense and achieve the same
result?

(I know this is a general question but I am generally clueless about
programming Outlook. I do know VB6 and VBScript.)

Please advise.

Thank you.

--Mark

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Unless you're willing to learn to program Outlook (see http://www.slipstick.com/dev/vb.htm for starters), this is probably the best manual procedure:

1) Drag the contact from the folder to the Tasks folder.
2) Add some text.
3) Choose File | Move to Folder and select your public folder.


--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers