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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming Add-Ins / August 2005Ho do I hook to Task completed event?
I would like to do something in my Add-in when user marks an Outlook Task as completed How can I hook to this event? Thanks Slava There is no specific event for marking a task as complete. You would have to handle the ItemChange event for the Items collection of the folder you are interested in and see if the item is now marked complete.  SignatureKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm >I would like to do something in my Add-in when user marks an Outlook Task >as completed > How can I hook to this event? > > Thanks > Slava Thanks Ken I was thinking more about Item.OnSave Do you think it will be the same or Items.ItemChange is better? Also I have found two properties: 8040 - Complete 804E - Status Which one do I use (or maybe both)? There is no OnSave event for items in the Outlook object model. There's a .Save event for items but you have to then have each possible item that could be saved instantiated to handle events. That would be relatively easy if the user opens each item before marking it complete and saving it but that doesn't have to be. The user could mark it complete from a folder view (Explorer) and then you'd have to trap each change in Explorer.Selection and instantiate an event handler for each selected item and change each time selection changed. What API or object model are you using? Properties in Outlook would be Complete and Status, the property tags would be irrelevant. You could read the Complete Boolean property or check Status for olTaskComplete (2). Where did you get those values for Complete and Status? In MAPI terms Complete would be GetIDsFromNames("{00062003-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}", 0x811C) OR PT_BOOLEAN and Status would be GetIDsFromNames("{00062003-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}", 0x8101) OR PT_LONG. SignatureKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > Thanks Ken > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Which one do I use (or maybe both)? Ken I am using a mixture of ExMAPI and OOM in my Add-in I already have DoSelection anyway, but for simplicity sake I will try ItemChange first You are right - I looked at tag sym instead of a value in Outlook Spy I will try boolean Complete then > Also I have found two properties: > 8040 - Complete > 804E - Status Complete and Status are named properties and the tag sym values would vary from mail store to mail store. For example on my Exchange mailbox the tag sym for Complete is 0x8044 and for Status it's 0x807B. You cannot depend on a named property having the exact same value on different mail stores, you have to use some method like GetIDsFromNames to get the actual property tag for that specific mail store. SignatureKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > Ken > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > You are right - I looked at tag sym instead of a value in Outlook Spy > I will try boolean Complete then |
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