No, it is not an unusual request except for the part about it being an
automatic part of Outlook's native, in-built abilities. It is an obscure
request for the 99.5% or more of the users of the calendar object so that is
why Microsoft provides an Outlook Object Model, programming tools, and
several help files, as well as developers who also offer help sites for
programming in the missing .5% of requested functionality.
Try
http://www.outlookcode.com for starters - it is run by Sue Mosher
(Outlook MVP) and widely recognized as one of the best help sites Otlook
developers ever have.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, Daze Ahead asked:
| Well, I can learn to be even clearer when stating my requirements, so
| thanks for that. And yes, it's already (unanswered) at Development.
| Unfortunately, subject taxonomy assumes that I know (which typye) the
| solution method already, requiring a choice VBA or Forms.
|
| Is this such an unusual request?
| Several background activities I deal with on a recurring basis are
| prompted by an email, and distract me from the creative tasks I
| prefer to dedicate my energy to.
| The purpose of computers are to emancipate mankind from uninspiring
| drudge, not create additional petty routines. //DJ
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| As I indicated by my "The best you can do" means that there is no
|| automatic method to do what you want. Sorry if my suggesting a
|| method that is not automatic does not meet your exacting standard.
||
|| So, to be short and to the point, NO, there is no automatic method
|| for doing this but you probably already knew this. Guess you are
|| off to a programming group, right?
||
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Daze Ahead asked:
||
||| 'Automatically' implied NO human intervention. (no dragging) Ta
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| The best you can do without writing code (post to an Outlook
|||| programming group for that) is to drag and drop the email to your
|||| calendar - right clicking before you drag gives you several options
|||| for how you want the information transferred.
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Daze Ahead asked:
||||
||||| I want to push an entry into my Calendar, based on key words in an
||||| email. The mail has standard subject and text body (generated by
||||| another system). e.g. Mail contains..
||||| Component : MSwidget
||||| Release number : 6.0.18
||||| Release type : Maintenance Release
||||| Release status : Planned
||||| Release date : 2006-02-16 12:00:00
|||||
||||| How to extract "Release date" and generate a Calendar entry for
||||| this day? The rules Wizard is limited to mail directories. //DJ
