Dave, The sample link you sent requires a login so I didn't really see it.
When you say ActiveX control are you referring to the Outlook Viewer you mentioned in the previous message? Where do I get/access the Outlook Calendar control and would I be able to add appointments programatically with it? Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:07 PM Subject: RE: Displaying the clients outlook folders > Thanks Frank, > > I've already got the client's 'inbox/sent items/draft' folders displaying > using the outlook activex control, as well as the outlook calendar and the > task list. It all works rather nicely. You can see an example of this at > http://demo.cws.intrafinity.com/gateway/user_login.cfm - This is NOT my > site. it is merely where I got the idea from. > > Thinking further into your room booking/meeting setup application. I'm > presuming that you are implementing the room as a shared resource from your > Exchange server. which is consequently available to each of your users via > Outlook Calendar. If this is the case, then you could simply use the Outlook > Calendar Activex control to handle your application requirements, by having > it only display the calendar for the "room" resource. > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Mamone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 24 April 2002 16:54 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Displaying the clients outlook folders > > > Dave, > > You'd have to use ActiveX if you have a single browser environment. Here is > reference I found in the archives. > ----------------------------------------------------- > About integrating CF with Exchange/Outlook... > > Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) runs on the server side, and is an > interface to Exchange's Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) > model. You can find information about CDO at msdn.microsoft.com - one thing > that keeps us from using it, though, is that the CF server would have to be > running as an account that has access to any Exchange folder it needs to > work with. And we probably cannot get that kind of access to the Exchange > server. > > One thing we've looked at is to access a single user's Exchange/Outlook > folders on the client side. Outlook can be automated in a similar way to > Word or Excel, using ActiveX objects. If a user has Outlook installed, they > already have the ActiveX objects installed - all you need to do is script > them with JavaScript or VBScript. Information about the Outlook object model > for scripting can be found in Outlook's Help when you're in the Visual Basic > Editor. > > Here is some sample code for scripting Outlook in JavaScript. This code adds > an appointment to the current user's default calendar. Haven't done it yet, > but I'm assuming you could put this in a CFML template and replace data > using CFOUTPUT and #'s: > > var olFolderCalendar = 9; > var olAppointmentItem = 1; > > function AddAppointment() > { > // Get the Outlook application and Exchange namespace > objApp = new ActiveXObject("Outlook.Application"); > objNS = objApp.GetNameSpace("MAPI"); > > // Get the user's default calendar folder > objFolder = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderCalendar); > > // Add an appointment item to the folder > objItem = objFolder.Items.Add(olAppointmentItem); > > // Set properties for new appointment item > objItem.Start = "20 Aug 2001 2:00PM"; > objItem.End = "20 Aug 2001 3:00PM"; > objItem.Subject = "A new appointment"; > objItem.Body = "This is the body text of the appointment."; > > // Save the appointment item > objItem.Save(); > } > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:49 AM > Subject: Displaying the clients outlook folders > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've successfully connected to Outlook using COM on the server, but this > > only displays the contents of the folders on that server's instance of > > outlook. I want to be able to display the messages, calendar, notes etc > > residing on the client machine, without using Exchange server. I've seen > > this done on another site and wondered if anybody here knew how to do it. > > > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
