Creating a Delegate field

[Jon]

When viewing emails, I have my Inbox shared with someone else on another PC.
i.e. we both view and edit the same email Inbox.

What I would like is a facility whereby I can tag a message to be Delegated
for someone else to deal with. So, I figure I need another custom column. In
that column would be an a combo box that lets me pick off one of 3 letters
which will be the first letter of the name of the person to whom I wish to
delegate.

So it runs like this...I have 5 emails in the Inbox. I will deal with email
1, 2 and 4 but I tag email 3 and 5 with the letter D as David will be
dealing with this.

Is it possible to do this with Outlook 2003?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Since you are using Outlook 2003 why not assigning flag colors to eachother?
You can also tag the subject with some VBA. Just a quick example;

Sub assign()
Dim myOlApp As Outlook.Application
Dim myinspector As Inspector
Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myinspector = myOlApp.ActiveInspector
User = Session.CurrentUser
nwsubject = myinspector.CurrentItem.Subject
myinspector.CurrentItem.Subject = UCase(User) & ": " & nwsubject

myinspector.CurrentItem.FlagIcon = olRedFlagIcon
myinspector.Close olSave
End Sub

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

 

[Jon]

Flag colors is one solution but I prefer letters as it is clearer.

Does your code auto tag the Subject according to which Inbox it goes in? Or
do you select something? Would prefer not to tag a Subject as filtering will
be done by Subject in some cases.

Since you are using Outlook 2003 why not assigning flag colors to eachother?
You can also tag the subject with some VBA. Just a quick example;

Sub assign()
Dim myOlApp As Outlook.Application
Dim myinspector As Inspector
Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myinspector = myOlApp.ActiveInspector
User = Session.CurrentUser
nwsubject = myinspector.CurrentItem.Subject
myinspector.CurrentItem.Subject = UCase(User) & ": " & nwsubject

myinspector.CurrentItem.FlagIcon = olRedFlagIcon
myinspector.Close olSave
End Sub

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

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When viewing emails, I have my Inbox shared with someone else on another
PC.
i.e. we both view and edit the same email Inbox.

What I would like is a facility whereby I can tag a message to be
Delegated
for someone else to deal with. So, I figure I need another custom column.
In
that column would be an a combo box that lets me pick off one of 3 letters
which will be the first letter of the name of the person to whom I wish to
delegate.

So it runs like this...I have 5 emails in the Inbox. I will deal with
email
1, 2 and 4 but I tag email 3 and 5 with the letter D as David will be
dealing with this.

Is it possible to do this with Outlook 2003?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

The code places the name of the currently logged on user in front of the
subject. You can of course hardcode the tag being used and create a separate
tag (and thus a separate macro as well) for each of your coworkers.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

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Flag colors is one solution but I prefer letters as it is clearer.

Does your code auto tag the Subject according to which Inbox it goes in?
Or
do you select something? Would prefer not to tag a Subject as filtering
will
be done by Subject in some cases.

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message news:[email protected]...

Since you are using Outlook 2003 why not assigning flag colors to eachother?
You can also tag the subject with some VBA. Just a quick example;

Sub assign()
Dim myOlApp As Outlook.Application
Dim myinspector As Inspector
Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myinspector = myOlApp.ActiveInspector
User = Session.CurrentUser
nwsubject = myinspector.CurrentItem.Subject
myinspector.CurrentItem.Subject = UCase(User) & ": " & nwsubject

myinspector.CurrentItem.FlagIcon = olRedFlagIcon
myinspector.Close olSave
End Sub

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

-----

When viewing emails, I have my Inbox shared with someone else on
another
PC.
i.e. we both view and edit the same email Inbox.

What I would like is a facility whereby I can tag a message to be
Delegated
for someone else to deal with. So, I figure I need another custom column.
In
that column would be an a combo box that lets me pick off one of 3 letters
which will be the first letter of the name of the person to whom I wish to
delegate.

So it runs like this...I have 5 emails in the Inbox. I will deal with
email
1, 2 and 4 but I tag email 3 and 5 with the letter D as David will be
dealing with this.

Is it possible to do this with Outlook 2003?