On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:32:02 -0500, Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook] wrote:

Take a look at the list of Outlook addins on the Utilities page at
www.slipstick.com for any that might meet your needs. If none are there they
probably don't exist.

Yeah, I did, and they don't. I don't suppose it's a very common use case -
"Help! I absolutely never look at my calendar, but everything in it is
mission-critical and must be prepared 48 hours in advance!" It's more of a
Deilbert film than a use case.

Any custom addin written to your specifications would cost in the range of
thousands of dollars, unless you can program what you want yourself.

Thousands? Really? No wonder consultants love Office-based systems!
It's been a decade or so since I tried writing "Office applications", but
isn't it just some VBA to hook things together, plus whatever the latest
brand name is for OLE/COM/etc?

I just don't know enough about the modern way to interact live with an
Office calendar and fetch its data. If there's a "Hello World" that does..
somethign, anything.. with that, I could turn into a process (launched by
the existing system scheduler) once a day that scans the Outlook Calendar,
and turns everything into a line in a text file. A batch file then decides
if the entries are worth notificiations or nort, draws the windows, etc.

seems like something I could do in an hour or two if I knew how Offce's
APIs worked... definitely not thousands of dollars.

Any Hello Worlds come to mind the that I could build on?

Jay


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