Customization beyond simple for Outlook Today....

[Shenan T. Stanley]

I have a customer who REALLY wants to customize their Outlook today.
I have done the minor things like adding background images and links to
other things on it - but this one has me stumped.

They want outlook today to come up with someone elses calendar listed there
instead of theirs.
I can change the Calendar link to the other person's calendar no problem...
but the data it is pulling - well, I don't know how to tell it to pull from
the other mailbox/calendar there.

To put it into perspective, I have an administrative assistant who would
want his bosses calendar to come up LISTED OUT (not just a link) on his
outlook today instead of his calendar listing. He does have rights to this
calendar (of course) and edits it - but I need to hack the OUTLWVW.DLL file
in such a way that does what he wants and not its normal behavior.

Anyone have suggestions?

(BTW - I use "Resource Hacker" to edit the OUTLWVW.DLL file - I already know
how to edit this, but am confused on what I need to change to do the
above..)

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[Rolf Szimnau]

Hi, I don't think what you are requesting is possible, but I am not a
programmer, so I cant say for sure, but if you are looking for a group
calendar solution, you might have a look at the following website.

http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/scheduleall.htm

Regards
Szimnau

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

See if the information on the following page helps:

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/outlooktoday.htm

Most of it is just for customizing using the built-in features, but if
you read all the way down the page, you'll find links for more
heavy-duty customizing info.

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[Shenan T. Stanley]

See if the information on the following page helps:

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/outlooktoday.htm

Most of it is just for customizing using the built-in features, but if
you read all the way down the page, you'll find links for more
heavy-duty customizing info.

I have looked around a lot, and what I have found so far is that in Outlook
2000, I could have changed the code:

<!-- OUTLOOK OBJECTS FOR DATABINDING -->

</HEAD BODY OBJECT ID="CalList"
CLASSID="CLSID:0468C085-CA5B-11D0-AF08-00609797F0E0">
<param NAME="Module" VALUE="Calendar">
<param NAME="Path" VALUE="\\Public Folders\All Public Folders\Calendar">
</OBJECT>

to change the calendar to point to a public calendar (or depending on the
path - anyones calendar).

However, when I do this in Outlook 2002, I get a blank calendar on my
outlook today page. I feel I am close here - but just missing some small
part to finish this off.

I have also tried the address as "outlook:\\blah blah" with the same
results.

Any help here?

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