How to capture arguments/parameters from an e-mail hyperlinlk

[janicmx]

Currently(i.e. clients and servers are on the INTERNAL network), the
arguments are passed in the following way:

A user receives an Outlook e-mail from the application, someting like
this:
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You have the following Outstanding Task Management Items and will
receive this monthly reminder until all are closed.
Outstanding Work Request Items:

Item Contact Title ETC Status Status Date
10997 hixsonva Develop on-line tracking system for FASU Work Requests
Pending Closure 03/28/2005
---------------------------------------------------------

User clicks on the Item 10997 in the e-mail which is actually a LINK
which contains:

http://ckroas:7778/servlet/f60servlet?config=rms&params=AF=TASK_MANAGEMENT;IF=10997

Now, this works all fine on the internal network (without Citrix).

However, we want certain outside users (on the Internet) to access our
appllication through Citrix.
My idea is this:

When an outside user (i.e. on Internet) receives this type of e-mail he
needs SOMEHOW (?)to capture the parameter (e.g.
params=AF=TASK_MANAGEMENT;IF=10997) and save it on his local drive in a
temporary file.
Now, when he comes through the Citrix to our applications, his/her C
drive is mapped as V drive
and this can be executed on the server.

QUESTION: how to capture this parameter from the Outlook dynamic link
(i.e. hyperlink) and save it on the local client drive ?

TIA,

Mike

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You'd have to write an application to parse the text of the message body, create a file in the desired location, and store the data there in the format that your application requires. Such an application (mostly likely an Outlook COM add-in) would need to be installed on each external user's machine, assuming they're running Outlook locally, not as part of their Citrix session.

If you're unfamiliar with writing code to automate Outlook, you might want to start at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vb.htm

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers