> I'm curious whether a web based interface that could read
> either Unix or Windows calendars could be developed. Someone
> around here wrote a cgi that reads the Unix calendars; that
> could probably be turned into ColdFusion pretty easily. However,
> I was wondering if the same could be said for Outlook.
There are a couple of issues here.
1. Outlook vs Exchange
If you're using MS Exchange, you can query the Exchange server from CF.
There's a set of COM objects which can be used for this - CDO. Since CDO is
an object hierarchy, and does some wacky things, you'll probably need to
write wrappers for it, then use the wrappers from CF.
If, on the other hand, you want to retrieve calendar events from a user's
Outlook file, that's a different story. I suppose you could use OLE
automation of Outlook to get what you want, but this would require either
that the user's Outlook PST file be on your server (which is unlikely) or
that you get some code to run on the local machine, beyond what you can do
with just scripting in a web page. What you'd be doing in this case would be
analogous to the latest Outlook viruses, more or less, except that you'd be
acting in the service of good instead of evil, presumably.
2. sending events vs receiving events
You can easily generate events and contacts for Outlook users by creating
output in iCalendar, vCalendar and vCard format. If you're interested in
this, check this out:
http://www.figleaf.com/figleafhome/cfug/cfugjune00.zip
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
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