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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming Add-Ins / December 2007[BOUNTY] Reminders for my reminders
[I posted this in m.p.o.thirdpartyutil a week ago, but this group seems like it would also be on-topic... sorry for the repost.] I'll give a $100 bounty for a program (either add-in or external) that meets these specs: 1. Every night, at a set time, notify my of any Outlook appointments tomorrow 2. No notification if there are no appointments 3. Preferred notification: Pop-up window (must show up even when Outlook is not in front) 4. Alternate notification: Send an e-mail to me 4a. If notification is by e-mail, it must use pure SMTP. It cannot rely on MAPI, and it cannot rely on having an e-mail account configured in Outlook 4b. My mail server requires ESMTP AUTH. If that's hugely difficult I may be able to configure a way around that. 5. Either way, the program must not rely on MAPI to communicate with Outlook, because, let's face it, that just never ever works when Outlook's not your e-mail program 6. Runs on Windows XP SP2, Outlook 2007 SP1 7. Deals with any redemption-library issues if that's still relevant today 8. Licensed with an OSSI-approved license so we can give back to the community (I will do the work of setting up a public repository) 9. Doesn't rely on clever keyboard-macro tricks that will break/lose focus if I'm in the middle of something else  SignatureJay Levitt | Boston, MA | My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. http://www.jay.fm | - Kristoffer I think Task Manager 2007 can do that with it's Outlook synchronization and auto-email reminders. Download at www.orbisoft.com > [I posted this in m.p.o.thirdpartyutil a week ago, but this group seems > like it would also be on-topic... sorry for the repost.] [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > 9. Doesn't rely on clever keyboard-macro tricks that will break/lose focus > if I'm in the middle of something else > I think Task Manager 2007 can do that with it's Outlook synchronization and > auto-email reminders. Download at www.orbisoft.com Nope; it only syncs tasks, not calendar appointments. Thanks for the tip, though! SignatureJay Levitt | Boston, MA | My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. http://www.jay.fm | - Kristoffer Take a look at the list of Outlook addins on the Utilities page at www.slipstick.com for any that might meet your needs. If none are there they probably don't exist. Any custom addin written to your specifications would cost in the range of thousands of dollars, unless you can program what you want yourself. SignatureKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm >> I think Task Manager 2007 can do that with it's Outlook synchronization >> and >> auto-email reminders. Download at www.orbisoft.com > > Nope; it only syncs tasks, not calendar appointments. Thanks for the tip, > though! > Take a look at the list of Outlook addins on the Utilities page at > www.slipstick.com for any that might meet your needs. If none are there they > probably don't exist. Yeah, I did, and they don't. I don't suppose it's a very common use case - "Help! I absolutely never look at my calendar, but everything in it is mission-critical and must be prepared 48 hours in advance!" It's more of a Deilbert film than a use case. > Any custom addin written to your specifications would cost in the range of > thousands of dollars, unless you can program what you want yourself. Thousands? Really? No wonder consultants love Office-based systems! :) It's been a decade or so since I tried writing "Office applications", but isn't it just some VBA to hook things together, plus whatever the latest brand name is for OLE/COM/etc? I just don't know enough about the modern way to interact live with an Office calendar and fetch its data. If there's a "Hello World" that does.. somethign, anything.. with that, I could turn into a process (launched by the existing system scheduler) once a day that scans the Outlook Calendar, and turns everything into a line in a text file. A batch file then decides if the entries are worth notificiations or nort, draws the windows, etc. seems like something I could do in an hour or two if I knew how Offce's APIs worked... definitely not thousands of dollars. Any Hello Worlds come to mind the that I could build on? Jay SignatureJay Levitt | Boston, MA | My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. http://www.jay.fm | - Kristoffer No serious Outlook developer will develop an application using the Outlook VBA project. COM addins are the way to go. I'd be very surprised if anyone who actually knows what they're doing would do a project like that for less than I mentioned, but you never know. You can look at www.outlookcode.com for tons of Outlook code samples, perhaps something there could provide a starter project for you. SignatureKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm >> Take a look at the list of Outlook addins on the Utilities page at >> www.slipstick.com for any that might meet your needs. If none are there [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Jay > If there's a "Hello World" that does.. > something, anything.. with that, I could turn into a process (launched by > the existing system scheduler) once a day that scans the Outlook Calendar, > and turns everything into a line in a text file. Hey, I'll answer my own question and go one even better than Hello World: http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2007/07/automating-outlook-with-ruby-calendar.html That oughta do what I need. Thanks for the inspiration, Ken :) SignatureJay Levitt | Boston, MA | My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. http://www.jay.fm | - Kristoffer |
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