Private data in an appointment
 

Sorry but a relative newbie when it comes to Outlook programming.

Currently using Office 2007. From Access I create an appointment - A
Delivery or Collection Docket - in a public Outlook folder using Automation.
The docket (body of the appointment) contains information such as customer
and delivery addresses, contact details including phone number, equipment to
be
delivered/collected, any special instructions and space for driver and
customer signatures.

The appointments/dockets are subsequently tracked by the van driver manager
and printed using the default memo style by our van drivers.

This all works fine, however, I would like to store private/hidden
application data that isn't shown in the subject or body of the appointment
(and therefore isn't easily modifiable by the user) such as the database
table record id. Then at some point in the future I would like to loop though
the Outlook appointments and retrieve this information to perform some
additional KPI processing.

Can you help?

Guy




Can you help?

Should I be using a custom outlook form or report? If so I would I use
automation from outlook to populate it?

Your assistance appreciated

Private data in an appointment
 

Oops please ignore all the lines following

Guy

(typo, from cutting/pasting from another recent outlook related posting)

"Guy" wrote:

Sorry but a relative newbie when it comes to Outlook programming.

Currently using Office 2007. From Access I create an appointment - A
Delivery or Collection Docket - in a public Outlook folder using Automation.
The docket (body of the appointment) contains information such as customer
and delivery addresses, contact details including phone number, equipment to
be
delivered/collected, any special instructions and space for driver and
customer signatures.

The appointments/dockets are subsequently tracked by the van driver manager
and printed using the default memo style by our van drivers.

This all works fine, however, I would like to store private/hidden
application data that isn't shown in the subject or body of the appointment
(and therefore isn't easily modifiable by the user) such as the database
table record id. Then at some point in the future I would like to loop though
the Outlook appointments and retrieve this information to perform some
additional KPI processing.

Can you help?

Guy




Can you help?

Should I be using a custom outlook form or report? If so I would I use
automation from outlook to populate it?

Your assistance appreciated

Private data in an appointment
 

Take a look at the new PropertyAccessor object in Outlook 2007. There are a number of articles in Help that explain how to use it to add custom properties, both those that can be visible to the user and those that aren't.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"Guy" wrote in message ...
Sorry but a relative newbie when it comes to Outlook programming.

Currently using Office 2007. From Access I create an appointment - A
Delivery or Collection Docket - in a public Outlook folder using Automation.
The docket (body of the appointment) contains information such as customer
and delivery addresses, contact details including phone number, equipment to
be
delivered/collected, any special instructions and space for driver and
customer signatures.

The appointments/dockets are subsequently tracked by the van driver manager
and printed using the default memo style by our van drivers.

This all works fine, however, I would like to store private/hidden
application data that isn't shown in the subject or body of the appointment
(and therefore isn't easily modifiable by the user) such as the database
table record id. Then at some point in the future I would like to loop though
the Outlook appointments and retrieve this information to perform some
additional KPI processing.

Can you help?

Guy

Private data in an appointment
 

Thanks Sue, works like a charm.

Your a sweetie

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Take a look at the new PropertyAccessor object in Outlook 2007. There are a number of articles in Help that explain how to use it to add custom properties, both those that can be visible to the user and those that aren't.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"Guy" wrote in message ...
Sorry but a relative newbie when it comes to Outlook programming.

Currently using Office 2007. From Access I create an appointment - A
Delivery or Collection Docket - in a public Outlook folder using Automation.
The docket (body of the appointment) contains information such as customer
and delivery addresses, contact details including phone number, equipment to
be
delivered/collected, any special instructions and space for driver and
customer signatures.

The appointments/dockets are subsequently tracked by the van driver manager
and printed using the default memo style by our van drivers.

This all works fine, however, I would like to store private/hidden
application data that isn't shown in the subject or body of the appointment
(and therefore isn't easily modifiable by the user) such as the database
table record id. Then at some point in the future I would like to loop though
the Outlook appointments and retrieve this information to perform some
additional KPI processing.

Can you help?

Guy