Dan, Sorry for the delay in answering. I will look into it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:49 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Rb2OLook Connector > I have a question. Is there a way to have it import into another folder than > the contacts?? > > I have a outlook folder that I have my dealers in and your program would be > very cool if I could designate which folder they go into. > > Dan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of MikeB > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:00 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Rb2OLook Connector > > > A while back, Sami Aaron said she had a client that wanted to update their > Outlook Contacts directly > from RBase and was it possible. Well within just a little bit, I had some > VB code that would use > Oterro to connect to RBase and then using Automation to Connect to Outlook, > I was able to shuttle > info from my RBase db to the Contacts folder in Outlook. > > But Nooo. Sami wasn't happy with that! (just kidding...) Actually I had > already done the PdfMerge > through Automation using Delphi, so I told here I would work it up. Well > without giving the blow by > blow, it turns out it would be much more flexible outputting RBase data to a > CSV file, then calling > the Delphi component to do the heavy lifting to Outlook, which by the way, > her client and myself use > Outlook with Exchange Server, so yes the Rb2OLook middleware works with > Exchange as well and deals > with Multiple Profiles, etc. > > What is required is Microsoft Outlook (Not Express) version 2000 or 2002 > (tested) but might work ok > with 97 as well. An INI file is the mechanism that is used to map the > Schema of RBase (or any other > program that exports CSV data can use the EXE version) data to the Outlook > Contact field mapping. > Some Sample files and a Help file are in the Rb2OLook.zip file. It hasn't > been tested further than > at Sami's client location and her and Is' personal systems, but seems to be > working as designed. > The UDF version is RBase specific and returns Success or Failure as a return > value. The EXE version > works as described above and can be run with Launch as well (which might be > the preferred method if > you don't need to wait for a completed operation in your RBase Program). > You can control via the > INI file, Silent or Verbose output and whether that output is to screen or > to a textfile for later > review... > > You are welcome to it at http://www.byerley.net/BdcDownSup.htm and scroll > down to the Rb2OLook.zip. > You must be a current registered user of an RBTI product to qualify for the > license to use the > software. > >
