How to persist attributes of a calendar folder and its items?

[Tadwick]

When users book a room resource for a meeting they frequently want to specify
additional attributes like catering and other consumables. I realize there
are commercial solutions for this kind of thing but how would you suggest
managing this type of requirement through VBA? It would be useful to
associate consumables with meetings but also track an inventory of
consumables too.

Possibilities I've considered include using custom attributes in MS
Exchange, extended MAPI properties or pointers to an external database.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The resource management software I've seen and written usually sets up
resources as additional resource mailboxes, or if that's not appropriate
(like for a catering menu) then named MAPI properties or Outlook
UserProperties are usually used for that.

 

[Tadwick]

Ken - thanks for your thoughts

The resource management software I've seen and written usually sets up
resources as additional resource mailboxes, or if that's not appropriate
(like for a catering menu) then named MAPI properties or Outlook
UserProperties are usually used for that.