Getting an EntryID after an object is moved - vba

Question

Summary
I'm trying to add hyperlinks to tasks created from emails that I have moved to another folder.
The goal is to have the task contain a hyperlink to the Outlook item that was moved to a "Processed Email" folder".
Problem
I don't understand how to move a MailItem and then get its new EntryID after it moves.
The "naive" way doesn't work. After using the Move method to move a MailItem object, the EntryID property does not reflect a change in ID.
Details
Creating a hyperlink to an Outlook item using the format outlook:<EntryID> is easy enough if the Outlook item remains in the Inbox, since I can just get the EntryID of the object that I am linking to. However, Outlook changes the EntryID when an object is moved.
I want to understand how to get the updated ID so that I can construct an accurate link.
Example
The message boxes show the EntryID property of objMail returns the same value despite the fact that the object has moved. However, running a separate macro on the mail in the destination folder confirms that the EntryID has changed with the move.
Sub MoveObject(objItem As Object)
Select Case objItem.Class
Case olMail
Dim objMail As MailItem
Set objMail = objItem
MsgBox (objMail.EntryID)
Dim inBox As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Set inBox = Application.ActiveExplorer().Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox)
Dim destFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Set destFolder = inBox.Folders("Processed Email")
If (Application.ActiveExplorer().CurrentFolder.Name <> destFolder.Name) Then
objMail.Move destFolder
End If
MsgBox (objMail.EntryID)
End Select
End Sub

Answer 1

The Move method of the MailItem class returns an object that represents the item which has been moved to the designated folder. You need to check out the EntryID value of the returned object, not the source one.
Anyway, you may consider handling the ItemAdd event of the target folder to make sure that an updated entry ID value is used all the time.
Sub MoveItems()
Dim myNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim myInbox As Outlook.Folder
Dim myDestFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim myItems As Outlook.Items
Dim myItem As Object
Set myNameSpace = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set myInbox = myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set myItems = myInbox.Items
Set myDestFolder = myInbox.Folders("Personal Mail")
Set myItem = myItems.Find("[SenderName] = 'Eugene Astafiev'")
While TypeName(myItem) <> "Nothing"
myItem.Move myDestFolder
Set myItem = myItems.FindNext
Wend
End Sub

Answer 2

Hello can you please elaborate your answer I am not able to understand it.
Anyway, you may consider handling the ItemAdd event of the target folder to make sure that an updated entry ID value is used all the time.
Here is my code and I need EntryID after moving.
Sub Movetest1()
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olns As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim Fld As Folder
Dim ofSubO As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim myDestFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim ofolders As Outlook.Folders
Dim objItems As Outlook.Items
Dim myRestrictItems As Outlook.Items
Dim i As Long
Dim myitem As Object
' Dim MailItem As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem
Dim MailItem, moveditem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim eid As String
Dim sid As Variant
Dim newEID As String
'---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Set olApp = New Outlook.Application
Set olns = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
For Each Fld In olns.Folders
If Fld.Name = "GSS Payables" Then
'
' MsgBox Fld.Name
' Debug.Print " - "; Fld.EntryID
Set Fld = olns.GetFolderFromID("000000009DA6D76FBE7A58489450CDF6094F592A0100A2457DC435B22448A832DB721D8185B1000000B6207D0000").Folders("Inbox")
Exit For
End If
Next
Set objItems = Fld.Items
eid = "000000009DA6D76FBE7A58489450CDF6094F592A0700A2457DC435B22448A832DB721D8185B1000000B620800000A2457DC435B22448A832DB721D8185B100007FF773270000"
sid = "000000009DA6D76FBE7A58489450CDF6094F592A0100A2457DC435B22448A832DB721D8185B1000000B6207D0000"
Set myDestFolder = Fld.Folders("Bhagyashri")
'Set myitem = objItems.Find("[SenderName]='Microsoft Outlook '")
Set MailItem = olns.GetItemFromID(eid)
Set moveditem = MailItem.Move(myDestFolder)
"giving error here
newID = moveditem.entryid
Debug.Print "newID -"; newID
' get mailitem.parent.storeid
MsgBox "done"
End

Answer 3

Use the following syntax:
Dim MoveToFolder As outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim MyItem As outlook.MailItem
Dim NewEntryID As String
NewEntryID = MyItem.Move(MoveToFolder).ENTRYID
After MyItem.Move is executed the new ENTRYID will be returned to the NewEntryID variable.