How to avoid stamping category to all messages in a thread? - outlook-addin

In Office 365 plugin, Our code stamps the particular mail item with a category (say "P1"). Instead of stamping only this mail item, the whole mail thread was assigned that category. All emails those are part of the mail thread which contains the stamped mail item are stamped with the category. My requirement is to assign that category only to that particular mail item. Is there any way to restrict this stamping of the whole mail thread?
Please see the attached screenshot ![stamp1_reply.png]https://imgur.com/a/as7g1Lo

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How to setup rule for emails that contains specific words in top email body only?

I created a rule that moves emails that contains a specific word in body to another folder.
It applies whenever that word is in body of older emails down the thread (when you scroll down to older emails that were replied to).
I need it to identify that word within the most recent email body only (and disregard the rest of the thread).
Outlook doesn't distinguish old email bodies and new ones. The message body is a single string. The best what you can do is to compare the message body of two items from the same conversation and extract the newer part. So, following that you will be able to recognize whether a keyword is a part of the newer message or not. The GetConversation method obtains a Conversation object that represents the conversation to which this item belongs. A conversation represents one or more items in one or more folders and stores.
Use the Find/FindNext or Restrict methods of the Items class to find items that correspond to the specified condition. Read more about them with code examples in the following articles:
How To: Use Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder (C#, VB.NET)
How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder
Also you may find the AdvancedSearch method of the Application class helpful. The key benefits of using the AdvancedSearch method in Outlook are:
The search is performed in another thread. You don’t need to run another thread manually since the AdvancedSearch method runs it automatically in the background.
Possibility to search for any item types: mail, appointment, calendar, notes etc. in any location, i.e. beyond the scope of a certain folder. The Restrict and Find/FindNext methods can be applied to a particular Items collection (see the Items property of the Folder class in Outlook).
Full support for DASL queries (custom properties can be used for searching too). You can read more about this in the Filtering article in MSDN. To improve the search performance, Instant Search keywords can be used if Instant Search is enabled for the store (see the IsInstantSearchEnabled property of the Store class).
You can stop the search process at any moment using the Stop method of the Search class.
Read more about that in the Advanced search in Outlook programmatically: C#, VB.NET article.

Search for the absence of text in email body

Everyday, I receives nearly 100+ emails which contain the following.
CRM Status: Open
CRM Interaction Number: XXXXX
On some emails Status and Number are missing.
Example:
CRM Status:
CRM Interaction Number:
I need to look manually and categorize as "Not Ticketed".
Is there a way to find how many emails don't have the Ticket# and Status.
Is there a way that a VBA can use to find out how many emails doesn't have the Ticket# and Status.
The Outlook object model provides the Find/FindNext and Restrict methods of the Items class. You can read more about these methods in the following articles:
How To: Use Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder (C#, VB.NET)
How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder
Also, you may find the AdvancedSearch method of the Application class helpful.
The key benefits of using the AdvancedSearch method in Outlook are:
The search is performed in another thread. You don’t need to run another thread manually since the AdvancedSearch method runs it automatically in the background.
Possibility to search for any item types: mail, appointment, calendar, notes etc. in any location, i.e. beyond the scope of a certain folder. The Restrict and Find/FindNext methods can be applied to a particular Items collection (see the Items property of the Folder class in Outlook).
Full support for DASL queries (custom properties can be used for searching too). You can read more about this in the Filtering article in MSDN. To improve the search performance, Instant Search keywords can be used if Instant Search is enabled for the store (see the IsInstantSearchEnabled property of the Store class).
You can stop the search process at any moment using the Stop method of the Search class.
Read more about this method in the Advanced search in Outlook programmatically: C#, VB.NET article.

How to move emails with same subject of one selected email?

I want to move emails from one folder to another based on the selection of one item.
If I choose one email I want all email with a similar subject to be moved from that folder into another folder (we can sort by subject and move the email, this may be faster).
Also I want to calculate response time of first received email with same subject and the response time of the email which I have replied at the last.
Moving one email is working.
Example
Subject of the email: Need data
Received at 1 AM, acknowledged at 1:10 AM and responded at 1:40 AM
In that case I need to calculate the timings as 40 MIN
i have tried selecting one email and run the macro and it is moving to another folder correctly but i need all the similar subject of the has to be moved faster
To find items that correspond to your conditions in Outlook you may use the following methods:
Find/FindNext - read more about these methods in the How To: Use Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder (C#, VB.NET) article.
Restrict - read more about this method in the How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder article.
AdvancedSearch - see Advanced search in Outlook programmatically: C#, VB.NET for more information.
The Move method can be used for moving items into another folder.

Creating tasks in Outlook to run automatically

I am trying to create an automatic task in Outlook 2010, but am having trouble doing so based on my lack of knowledge of Visual Basic, I believe.
I am trying to find a way that I can set perhaps a Macro in outlook to automatically create a calendar appointment when an email is recieved...
Everyday, I will recieve an automatically generated email from an automated system which includes my schedule for the following day. What I want to do is as soon as the email is received, I want Outlook to create an all-day appointment for the next day and add it to my calendar, including the excel spreadsheet (my schedule) which is attached to that same email.
Either for Outlook to strip the attachement away from the email and add it to the appointment, or for the entire email to become the appointment with the Excel sheet still attached.
I've had a browse around online, but cannot seem to find a solution for my problem.
If there is not a way to create the appointment for the next day, the date of the schedule is always included in the subject line (in the format DD/MM/YYYY) and as the email is generated automatically, all of the text in the subject and body remain the same; only the date is changed automatically per email and of course, the attachment too (however is always a spreadsheet in the format .xls).
The main reason that I am trying to do this is so that when I need to check my schedule, I can find it in my calendar, rather than having to trail through my emails to find it. This is especially more convenient when viewing from a mobile device. I know there are probably easier ways of simply finding the original email, but I'm hoping to be able to accomplish this way of working.
Currently, I do this manually by creating a new all-day appointment in my calendar each evening after I receive my schedule, then copy the excel spreadsheet from the email to the calendar appointment, add the subject line "Current Day Schedule", then save. This doesn't take particularly long, but to have it completed automatically would be amazing
Any assistance that anyone can provide would be incredible!
Best,
Without providing too much actual code (although I can edit my response from home later), here is what I would do:
Using Outlook's NewMail event, check the subject of the most recent message. In theory the "schedule email" is pretty standard and you can identify it based on its subject.
If the newest message is the schedule, then open the Appointments collection and create a new item.
Modify all of the properties to suit your needs, including adding an attachment.
All of this requires you have some VBA knowledge...which I'm not sure you have at your disposal or not.

Searching across inbox, calendar, tasks and notes in Outlook to display in single view

I have added the same category and / or string of text to items in inbox, calendar, tasks and notes. I would like to see them in a single view.
I would assume this would be done via a search, but I don't know how to do that across the whole of outlook?
Thanks
You can use the AdvancedSearch method of the Application class.
The key benefits of using the AdvancedSearch method in Outlook are:
The search is performed in another thread. You don’t need to run another thread manually since the AdvancedSearch method runs it automatically in the background.
Possibility to search for any item types: mail, appointment, calendar, notes etc. in any location, i.e. beyond the scope of a certain folder. The Restrict and Find/FindNext methods can be applied to a particular Items collection (see the Items property of the Folder class in Outlook).
Full support for DASL queries (custom properties can be used for searching too). You can read more about this in the Filtering article in MSDN. To improve the search performance, Instant Search keywords can be used if Instant Search is enabled for the store (see the IsInstantSearchEnabled property of the Store class).
Finally, you can stop the search process at any moment using the Stop method of the Search class.
Take a look at the Advanced search in Outlook programmatically: C#, VB.NET article for more information.