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Lor - 19 Jan 2004 09:16 GMT

Hi

I'm working on a fairly large project to provide a reminder/meeting service to a number of users. I have pin pointed three problems the I need help with and would appreciate if anyone has any clues....(listed in order of importance

Problem 1: Is there a method to programatically add calendar entries to several people's outlook? I was thinking of modifying the meeting request, but they want the entries to be added without any intervention..

Problem 2: Is there a method to programatically add a Countdown reminder? I want the reminder to show weekly, until a week before the appointment is due, then I want a daily reminder.....This is the part of the project that has lead me away from using a shared mailbox (unless anyone knows how to display a reminder to all people that access a shared mailbox?

Problem 3: Part of my solution will be to select an open case that our people are working on...I have a rather large text file that sits on a network share that I want to use to populate a ComboBox....

Thanks for any help you can give!

Lor

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 20 Jan 2004 13:29 GMT

1) Assuming you have appropriate permissions, you would use the
Namespace.GetSharedDefaultFolder method to get the other user's Calendar
folder, then use the MAPIFolder.Items.Add method to add the new appointment.

2) Ken Slovak has written a reminders program at http://www.slovaktech.htm
that might help with showing reminders from non-default folders.

3) Read the data into an array using FileSystemObject methods, then set the
List property of the combo box to that array.

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> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a fairly large project to provide a reminder/meeting service to a number of users. I have pin pointed three problems the I need

help with and would appreciate if anyone has any clues....(listed in order
of importance)

> Problem 1: Is there a method to programatically add calendar entries to several people's outlook? I was thinking of modifying the meeting request,

but they want the entries to be added without any intervention...

> Problem 2: Is there a method to programatically add a Countdown reminder? I want the reminder to show weekly, until a week before the appointment is

due, then I want a daily reminder.....This is the part of the project that
has lead me away from using a shared mailbox (unless anyone knows how to
display a reminder to all people that access a shared mailbox?)

> Problem 3: Part of my solution will be to select an open case that our people are working on...I have a rather large text file that sits on a

network share that I want to use to populate a ComboBox.....

> Thanks for any help you can give!!
>
> Lor

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