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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming VBA / July 2003Automated adding of views and categories
I must create a script which adds categories and views to the calendar in outlook. I want to have as much compatibility as possible(97,2000,2002,XP). My first approach is to deploy a .pst-file. So I created one with outlook97. Then addstore copyto removestore as it was recommended. But there were no new categories or views created. AddStore and RemoveStore aren't available in Outlook 97, they were introduced in Outlook 2000. Categories are kept in each user's Windows registry. Your script would have to write to the registry. In Outlook 2002 and later the Categories master list in the registry isn't a string value it's a binary and all the categories are in Unicode, so you'd also have to account for that in your script. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Lead Author, Professional Outlook 2000 Programming, Wrox Press Lead Author, Beginning VB 6 Application Development, Wrox Press Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/attachmentoptions.htm Extended Reminders http://www.slovaktech.com/extendedreminders.htm > I must create a script which adds categories and views to the calendar > in outlook. I want to have as much compatibility as [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > But there were no new categories or views created. I already have a COM-Addin running which can add categories. My main problem is to create the views. They are very simple views. Only a weekly-report in the calendar which shows the items of one category. Where are the views in outlook97 stored? Do I have to determine which version is installed? Or is there another way to create it, perhaps through COM? If there is no way to be compatible with Outlook97, then forget OL97. I need this to automate the setup, everyone who has OL97 has to configure it without automation. Let's concentrate on Outlook2k and OL2002. Can I solve this problem with only one .pst-file for both or should I use a .pst-file for OL2K and a vba script for creating the views for OL2002. Please help me, I'm not very experienced in VB-programming and outlook. Thanks in advance! Tom Please include some of the preceding thread in your posts, it makes it very hard to follow a thread without that. Forget COM addins if you want to support Outlook 97 or 98, COM addins were introduced in Outlook 2000. Views are kept in a hidden MAPI message in the folders, using the MessageClass of IPM.Microsoft.FolderDesign.NamedView. See http://www.cdolive.com/cdo10.htm for information about that. The format of the view is an undocumented binary so I'd give up on the idea of trying to create a view using code. You also can't access the view message using the Outlook object model, you'd have to use CDO 1.21 or Extended MAPI (C++ or Delphi only, no VB/VBA/VBScript). See http://www.slipstick.com/dev/copyfolderdesign.htm for your options for distributing views. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Lead Author, Professional Outlook 2000 Programming, Wrox Press Lead Author, Beginning VB 6 Application Development, Wrox Press Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/attachmentoptions.htm Extended Reminders http://www.slovaktech.com/extendedreminders.htm > I already have a COM-Addin running which can add categories. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Do I have to determine which version is installed? > Or is there another way to create it, perhaps through COM? This hints assumes that you have exchange server installed, as far as I can see. But our customers use their outlook as mail-client and calendar without any central point of communication. I don't have the "Copy Folder Design" option in my menu. This is perhaps the reason why the addstore-copyto-sample don't add any views. Can I make a workaround? Can I activate this feature without installing exchange? Thank you! Tom > Please include some of the preceding thread in your posts, it makes it > very hard to follow a thread without that. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Do I have to determine which version is installed? > > Or is there another way to create it, perhaps through COM? Did you follow the link on the Web page at Slipstick to http://www.exchangeadmin.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8650 and look at the second method? That's about your only option. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Lead Author, Professional Outlook 2000 Programming, Wrox Press Lead Author, Beginning VB 6 Application Development, Wrox Press Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/attachmentoptions.htm Extended Reminders http://www.slovaktech.com/extendedreminders.htm > This hints assumes that you have exchange server installed, as far as > I can see. But our customers use their outlook as mail-client and [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thank you! > Tom This works and I tried it yesterday but I didn't see any way to automate this with a script. In OL2002 you can reach the view seperately but in OL2000? Can you help me? I hope that's my last question and the problem is solved soon. Thanks for the great help you have given me! Tom > Did you follow the link on the Web page at Slipstick to > http://www.exchangeadmin.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8650 and [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Thank you! > > Tom |
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