I am trying to build a Outlook AddIn. In certain cases I want to know whether the user is trying to convert the current AppointmentItem to a recurring AppointmentItem.
Is it possible to catch this event? Is it possible to prevent the event from happening in certain cases?
thanks
You can catch the AppointmentItem.PropertyChange("IsRecurring") event - it will fire whenever the recurrence pattern is changed. You can then prompt the user and call AppointmentItem.ClearRecurencePattern().
AppointmentItem can be retrieved from Inspector.CurrentItem, and inspector can be retrieved from the Inspectors.NewInspector event.
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is there any chance to make the following scenario working
user gets email in Outlook containing link/text/object
clicking the object runs simple VBA code (i.e. replace string in txt) file on users computer
Thank you.
No, it is not possible. This is a potential path for malware.
Instead, you can handle the NewMailEx event of the Application class in Outlook VBA macros where can detect such mails (with a specific text or links) and run your business logic accordingly.
The NewMailEx event fires once for every received item that is processed by Microsoft Outlook. The item can be one of several different item types, for example, MailItem, MeetingItem, or SharingItem. The NewMailEx event fires when a new message arrives in the Inbox and before client rule processing occurs. You can use the Entry ID returned in the EntryIDCollection array to call the NameSpace.GetItemFromID method and process the item.
I tried to catch the event when the AppointmentItem.Body changes. Handling the PropertyChange on the AppointmentItem does not get called when I type in text or save the AppointmentItem. It gets called when I hit the button "Add Participants though".
Best would be to get the Keydown on the body editor?
The Outlook object model may not propagate changes made in the Outlook UI until you switch focus to another field and/or save the item. This is a well-known issue when dealing with the Outlook object model.
Okay, looks like someone has encountered this problem before, but I didn't see any further comments or solutions. See the Edit in the accepted answer to this question.
My situation is like this.
I am running Outlook 2013 under Win10 x64 with an Exchange email account. I sometimes run Outlook for several days to a week or more at a time without closing it.
I want to raise an event when a new item is added to the Sent Mail folder. This needs to occur after the Application ItemSend event because, let's say, I want to delete the message after it is sent, which you cannot do from within the ItemSend event handler.
So I have the following code:
Public WithEvents goSent As Outlook.Items
Private Sub Application_Startup()
'Establish the global object for the folder we want to monitor.
Set goSent = Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderSentMail).Items
End Sub
Private Sub goSent_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)
'Do stuff here.
End Sub
Everything works beautifully for a day or longer, but eventually the ItemAdd event handler stops firing. If I enter the VBA editor and manually run Application_Startup, then it starts working again.
[Edit:] One other bit of information: The "built-in" events, like Application ItemSend, always seem to fire reliably no matter how long Outlook has been running.
[Edit 2:] This time, I let things go for a day after the event stopped firing. I opened the VBA editor and put a breakpoint in the Application ItemSend procedure. When it stopped, I queried the goSent object and found that (a) it still existed (rather than being Nothing), but (b) it had only the items in it that were there yesterday, presumably at the time it became "untethered" from the Sent Mail items collection. When I submitted a new Set statement in the Immediate window, it immediately began to work again.
[Edit 3:] I noticed that the MSDN documentation says to put event handlers for custom objects--like my ItemAdd event--in class modules. I have mine in ThisOutlookSession, but it was my understanding that ThisOutlookSession is a class module. Is there a problem with that?
Any idea why this would happen and what to do about it? I considered adding an event handler for Application ItemSend and just reassigning the goSent object every time that's fired, but it doesn't address the underlying problem.
[Edit 4:] For a while now, I've had a Set statement in the Application ItemSend handler, and that seems to have mostly taken care of things, even though it's a workaround, not really a solution. It appears to fail when I have delayed delivery on a sent item for an extended time, and I don't send any further messages in the meantime. Then the goSent object disconnects from the Sent Mail collection, and the message is actually sent from the Outbox after that point and before Application ItemSend fires again.
Thanks!
[Edit 5:] Unrelated to original issue: I discovered that my macros fail to accomplish what I want with an Exchange server that is in online mode (i.e., not cached mode) if I have messages in the Outbox with delayed delivery and Outlook is closed when the delivery time passes. In online mode, Exchange itself sends these messages and adds them to the Sent Mail folder on the server, so when Outlook reopens, the messages are already in the Sent Mail collection and no event fires. Which makes sense. See discussion here. Looks like I would need to add something to my Application_Startup macro to look for messages sent since Outlook last closed.
I had similar issue and never found a proper solution. What I did was I wrote a little batch script that closes and opens outlook app, then I set a task in task scheduler to run it every hour outside of my working hours. You can also do it easily in vbs.
I'm developing an Outlook Add-in, and currently I have no idea on how to capture the task's checkbox (mark complete) tick event -- particularly on the 'Outlook Today' view. I'd like to override it with my own function.
Refer to the attached image as reference to the checkbox being referred to.
Outlook Today Task
The Outlook Today page is not a typical area that can be integrated with. It is possible though, as it is basically an .html page; see: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc750169.aspx. However, this is 20 year-old technology...
If you are mainly interested in trapping changes to that task, then you can trap the Items.ItemAdd event for the Tasks folder and do whatever you like with the modified Task.
The Outlook object model doesn't provide anything for the Outlook Today page. It just lists items from your folders. So, you may consider handling the following events to get the job done:
The ItemChange event of the Items class which is fired when an item in the specified collection is changed.
The PropertyChange event of Outlook items which is fired when an explicit built-in property of an object is changed.
Both events are fired when you mark the task as completed. But in case of the PropertyChange event you need to subscribe to each task item individually which is not really convenient.
I am trying to develop an add-on for outlook which requires handling control changes.
For instance I need to do some stuff when email subject is changed. To do this, I need to access text change event of subject texbox.
I was just wondering whether anyone has done such thing or not?
Thanks
Check the PropertyChange event:
Occurs when a standard property (for example, Subject or To) of a
Microsoft Outlook item is changed. The property name is passed to the
event so that you can determine which property was changed.