Differentiate between drag & drop email task creation and normal task creation

[Mohit]

Hi all,
I have explorer window opened. Now I select any mail and drag and
drop it onto the Task Button available on the Navigation pane. A new
task is created and the description of the task is filled up with my
email message body.
Now my questions are:-
How can I differentiate between tasks that are created normally
and those tasks which are created in this drag drop fashion. I require
this so as to perform some activities like setting the category of
tasks created from email messages etc. Is there some specific event
and/or property which can help me in distinguishing?
Currently I am trapping the NewInspector event but that is executed
each time even when I open a task from task list. So in this case my
activities are executing every time that I don't want.

Another question is :
I have searched on creating categories programmatically. I didn't
get any specific answer whether we can do it or not? I get that master
categories are stored as UNICODE/ANSI registeries for different
versions of outlook in one of the posts by Sue.
When I set category as : taskItem.Categories="MyCategory". Category is
added temporarily but not added in Master Category list and it is also
not available to other tasks. Is there some workaround for it?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

1) This might do it: In NewInspector or Inspector_Activate the Taskitem's
Subject is like the one in Selection(1).

2) It seems that Sue told you the 'workaround' already: you must determine
the Outlook version, dependign on that either open the right registry key
and write into it either text or hex values, or if it's OL07 use the new
object model.

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Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Quick-Cats - Categorize Outlook data:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am 17 Apr 2007 01:05:17 -0700 schrieb Mohit: