How can I reset recurring meeting in vba? - vba

I wrote vba script to duplication my main calendar to another calendar, including recurring meeting. All is well except when the organizer do out-of-order modifications to the recurring meeting as meeting exceptions. This triggers error for .GetOccurrence(). The solution I can think of is to reset the recurrence pattern (.Exceptions.Count=0) and redo each and every exceptions again. May I know how can I reset the recurrence pattern so that there is no exception?
Thanks!

May I know how can I reset the recurrence pattern so that there is no exception?
The Outlook object model doesn't provide any method or property for that. You need to re-create an appointment anew and set up a recurrence pattern.

Many thanks for the reply. I re-work my program to avoid the need to reset the recurrence pattern. The key realization for me is the function of Original Date. This is the "key" that link my main calendar and my duplicated calendar. I need to loop through all the exception to find the appointment that matched based on original date. With that, I can then use exception(i).start as the key to GetOccurrence().

If you are getting an error in the GetOccurrence() method, that means you are not passing the right date - you need to trap the exception and use the RecurrencePattern.Exceptions collection instead.
If you still want to reset the pattern and using Redemption (I am its author) is an option for you, it exposes RDOExceptions.Clear method to remove all exceptions from an appointment as well as RDOExceptions.Restore to remove a particular exception

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Skip meeting request in for each selection loop

I am working on a simple Marco that use to download selected emails' attachments.
It was really a simple logic but I am still stuck.
I found out that my for each loop is always stop when it met the meeting request email.
(It almost took my whole day to figure it out that the meeting request is The Barricade.)
The problem can be fixed by deletion of the meeting request.
And yet, it is really annoying for a lazybones like me.
Therefore, I really curious that is there any method can let the for each loop just ignore/auto unselect meeting requests?
And I have already tried detect the email subject/context to seprate the meeting requests and normal mails.
But it seem like it would just exit the for each loop when it encountered the meeting request.
So currently I don't have any idea about how to fixing it.
Firstly, you need to show the relevant snippet of your code.
Secondly, you should not assume that you are only dealing with the MailItem objects - before accessing an of the MailItem-specific properties, check that the Class property (it is exposed by all OOM objects) is 43 (which is olMail).

Check original language of repository objects at creation?

In our company, repository objects must be created with original language EN.
Is there a way to check the logon language in case of creating a new object in the ABAP repository?
Desired behaviour:
SE80 - Create program/class/data element/table/....
==> user exit/badi checks the logon language. When it is not 'EN', the creation will be refused.
regards,
Umar Abdullah
I know there is a exit for this but I haven't remember exact name. You can use general purpose for finding exit. Go to SE24 and open CL_EXITHANDLER class, find GET_INSTANCE method and add break point. Then start creating item, it will pause on debugger multiple times, try to find suitable one.
As #mkysoft suggested, you may implement a check in the BAdI CTS_REQUEST_CHECK, method CHECK_BEFORE_ADD_OBJECTS, which is invoked when the object is about to be attached to a transport request. Raise the exception CANCEL to make the attachment fail (and so the object is not created too).
EDIT: sorry, ignore my answer, "this method is NOT released for Customer usage" as said in note 2150125 - Method CHECK_BEFORE_ADD_OBJECTS not triggered
DISCLAIMER: THE METHOD DESCRIBED HERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOT RECOMMENDED.
As correctly pointed out by the other members there is no standard and customer-exposed method to achieve your requirement, but if you absolutely must enable this check during creation you can use the below method. As well as the previously offered to you, it also involves modification of SAP standard.
There is a system BAdi CTS_TADIR_SUBSCREEN that is located inside enhancement point CTS_ES_TADIR_POPUP. They are SAP internal and not released for customer usage, so do this at your own risk.
Implementation procedure:
Step 0. First thing you need to change is a SAP internal usage flag, for which you need Object Access key which can be obtained from SAP or from SAP partner that made the implementation in your org. In virgin state this BAdi throws the error if you try to implement it
So hereinafter we assume that you already ticked off this checkbox in BAdi settings
Step 1.
In order to implement the BAdi one need to implement enhancement spot prior to that. This is the most complicated part, because despite we disabled internality flag the SAP-namespaced enhancements must be stored only in SAP-namespaced objects. By SAP namespace I mean non-Z, non-Y and non-T (Test). This means to implement this enhancement, besides modifying the enhancement definition, one need to create, for example, CTS_ES_TADIR named enh.impl., and save it to non-Z package, which you also need to create. Your enhancement implementations selector should look somehow like this
On the above screen only the second will work, all the rest Z will not.
Every non-Z object need Object Access Key, remember? Too bad. But just to show the proof-of-concept, I will proceed.
Step 2. After you created the enh. implementation in SAP-namespace it will propose you to create the BAdi implementation. The same principle applies here: only SAP-namespaced container for SAP-namespaced objects, hence CTS_TADIR_SUBSCREEN should have implementing class for example CL_TADIR_SUBSCREEN. During the creation of enhancement you will see many warnings
but finally you should have something like this, where all system-named objects are created and the enhancement/BAdi is activated.
Step 3. In order to get the BAdi working we need to enable this subscreen processing
during the playing with enhancement I found out that BAdi class is not being triggered standalone, without screen events not enhanced, so to make it work you need to touch a screen enhancement for screen 100
If you do not wanna modify screen elements logic, just put the dummy enhancement in SHOW_TADIR dialog module in the end of the include LSTRDO18
PROCESS BEFORE OUTPUT.
MODULE SHOW_TADIR. "<-- create the dummy enhancement here
CALL SUBSCREEN subs_info INCLUDING gv_badi_prog gv_badi_dynnr.
for example declaration statement like I did
Step 4. Activate your created BAdi class and put the necessary logic there. I wasn't able to trigger method GET_DATA_FROM_SCREEN, but PUT_DATA_TO_SCREEN worked fine
If we put this simple processing for your requirement
METHOD cts_if_tadir_subscreen~get_data_from_screen.
IF object_data-l_mstlang <> 'E'.
MESSAGE 'Objects in non-English languages are not allowed!' TYPE 'A'.
ENDIF.
ENDMETHOD.
it will not allow creating objects in languages other than English.
The check in method get_data_from_screen is being done before showing the screen so language is determined from system logon settings. If to play more with this BAdi, I suppose the method GET_DATA_FROM_SCREEN can also be enabled, which will make it possible to check user input, i.e. the case when the user gonna change the default language.

User exit for production order confirmation in CO11N?

I've watched quite a few videos on YouTube and have a basic understanding of how to find user-exits (enhancements?) and implement them. However when I try to replicate what I've seen it doesn't appear to be working.
I'm looking to create a user-exit that would execute when a production order has been confirmed (closed/finished) via CO11N. Someone suggested that I put in a line of code "BREAK username." So that I could verify that my code was firing. Nothing breaks. I've tried putting in a message from code found on the internet
MESSAGE s208(00) WITH 'TEST'.
No message is shown. I've activated the include and the project. I've tried different exits/includes and no matter what I do, nothing seems to break or show a message.
Is there something simple I'm missing? I've tried CONFPI05 and CONFPM05.
CONFPI05 is for process orders. CONFPM05 is for plant maintenance orders. First you need to check which kind of order you use. I assume you use production orders. You should check User-Exit CONFPP05 than.
Anyway, I would recommend using BAdI WORKORDER_CONFIRM. Within this BAdI there are methods available where you can raise an error message.
From the BAdI documentation:
Note that in the methods, no system messages may be sent. The only
exceptions are the AT_SAVE and AT_CANCEL_CHECK methods. Within these
methods, a system message may be issued, but only if you trigger the
exception ERROR_WITH_MESSAGE (for AT_SAVE method) or NOT_ALLOWED (for
AT_CANCEL_CHECK method) at the same time.
Note also that within the methods, the "commit work" instruction may
not be carried out because this would lead to incorrect data in the
database.
I strongly recommend not to use MESSAGE statement in any User-Exit or BAdI implementation. The MESSAGE statement will implicit call a COMMIT WORK which could cause database inconsistencies (happens very often by the way).
One additional note. You should check using Checkpoint Groups instead of using BREAK-POINT or BREAK username directly.
I checked the documentation:
CONFPI05 to update your own data after saving the confirmation
In another documentation I found another warning:
In this customer enhancement it is strictly forbidden to send error messages or other messages because otherwise there is the danger that data will be inconsistent. SAP cannot be held responsible for this!!
This sounds like changes in update task. By default breakpoints in update task are not enabled.
Should your code be processed after you pushed save?
If yes, what you can try:
Set anywhere a breakpoint. Or try /h during data insertion.
In debug screen activate the update debugging:
Continue the process with F8.
Hopefully you stop at your break-point.

Identify MailItems satisfying a Rule

Is there any way to know which MailItems satisfy a given Rule?
I mean to move a set of emails by applying a Rule (as a one-off operation), but then know which were these.
You can use the Find/FindNext or Restrict methods to find Outlook items that satisfy to your conditions. Also you may find the AdvancedSearch method of the Application class helpful.
You can either parse the rule conditions (Rule.Conditions) and programmatically check if they apply to a particular message, or you can call Rule.Execute and let it do what it needs to do. You can set up event handler on the target folder (Items.ItemAdd) ahead of time to figure out which items were moved to the target folder.

How do I record a player's response?

Basically what I am trying to do is have the player respond to a message in which they are required to input numbers only. From that point, I could parse the String into an int and use it towards the rest of my code. Also, I am trying to make it so this occurs in my event method. Any help is greatly appreciated!
What you essentially want to do is store the player in a container until the next time they talk, then remove them. This, represented in pseudocode, would look like the following:
on your condition:
add player to collection
on player chat:
does the player exist in the collection?
yes: is input a valid number?
yes: proceed with execution, remove player from collection after
no: print error
no: ignore, let event pass
Since the MineCraft protocol does not allow input verifying, there will be cases where the user may submit non-numerical characters. Integer.parseInt, or its sibling valueOf will throw an exception if this is the case.
To prevent memory leaks, you should remove the player from the collection when they log off. Alternatively, you could store them in a weak reference container. A good one for this scenario would be a WeakSet, which you can essentially obtain via Collections.newSetFromMap(new WeakHashMap()). Weak references get garbage-collected if all other references are eliminated, so this reduces the risk of a memory leak.
You should look into the bukkit conversation API. It for doing exactly this. You can find tutorials online, but basically to set it up you do this.
Build a conversation with the ConversationFactory
ConversationFactory HudConvo = new ConversationFactory(plugin)
.withModality(true)
.withEscapeSequence("exit")
.withFirstPrompt(new HudConversationMain(plugin, player, 0))
.withLocalEcho(false);
Conversation conversation = HudConvo.buildConversation((Conversable) player);
Begin the conversation
conversation.begin();
Make the first prompt as a class that either extends one of the input type prompts (i.e. StringPrompt) or implements the Prompt abstract class.
Fill in the methods getPromptText() and acceptInput(). getPromptText() constructs the message to be displayed to the player and acceptInput() takes what the player types and reacts to it with a new prompt.
I hope this helped. If you have questions, feel free to ask.