Re: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash - ToDo list
That's strange. I was just looking at doing a Todo tool. I like the one that's in Google Desktop (just a little checklist on the desktop), but I hate the sidebar it puts up. I just want the little widget! The task list in Outlook is hidden away and I don't like to have anything up there except my inbox. Any recommendations? If there's no free projects out there, I was thinking about doing a flash/Zinc desktop widget. -Scott On 12/20/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I know about Outlook's web interface, I'm not looking to do anything like that - a superior here wanted to look into tapping into ToDo lists via a flash interface. I read up on it, and Exchange provides CDO which you can tap into with .NET, but it's limited in what it exposes Tasks not being one of them. Perhaps a wrapper like Zoltan suggested is the way to go. Looking furhter, I realize it's one of those projects that probably won't go anywhere since the time/cost involved far outweigh the benefits right now, but thanks for the info! Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- : : ) Scott ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash
On the desktop you just need a COM/Automation capable shell(projector). Outlook exposes a complete COM object model with all the required data. Zoli -Original Message- From: John Dowdell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:10 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash Merrill, Jason wrote: I know with the security of the Flash player, it's probably not possible or easy (unless MS has some sort of webservice for Exchange servers built in or something) to grab a person's Outlook Calendar or Task list - but what about a Flash desktop application - is that information available through some API? Can a third party app for Flash be used to call an application which will retrieve this data? I know there would be security issues on that too, but I was tasked to investigate this. I might have some resources to write that application, but wouldn't know what the possibilities would be on the Flash end. Anyone done any integration with Outlook before? Thanks. Microsoft does offer Outlook Webmail, and this browser UI does show contact scheduling info. I don't know if it can directly serve things other than full HTML pages, but if you own both ends of the transaction then it should be possible to put a screenscraping proxy server in the middle. For third party app, a lot depends on the native-code shell you use around the Adobe Flash Player wrapper. The default Projector in the Macromedia Flash Professional authoring tool is a simple shell without deep access to system-level calls, but third-party shells can expose any local API they wish. I'm not sure how well MS Outlook local data is exposed, however, or even whether that information is stored on the local machine. Maybe the Microsoft docs would have more, on which ways they expose Outlook's Calendar or Tasks to alternative shells...? Once that is known, it can help figure things out on the client end. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash
You could certainly do this using, for example, ASP or ASP.NET to invoke ADSI/CDO interfaces. Thanks for the responses! I'll check into that - probably getting beyond the scope of this list now. But good to know in theory I could call a webservice to call ADSI Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Watts Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 6:45 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash I know with the security of the Flash player, it's probably not possible or easy (unless MS has some sort of webservice for Exchange servers built in or something) to grab a person's Outlook Calendar or Task list You could certainly do this using, for example, ASP or ASP.NET to invoke ADSI/CDO interfaces. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash
Jason - Depending on your constraints for the runtime / player of the application you could use Proto to host the Flash files as sort of an integration and scaffolding layer, then use VBA to integrate w/ office apps. Here's two links if you want to check that out: 1. Proto flash integration: http://www.protosw.com/products/features/flash 2. a movie/ demo showing Outlook contacts pulled and put onto a Yahoo! map (that is just a SWF running in Proto. sort of like you would do w/ the calendar): http://www.protosw.com/products/intro-movie I'm happy to answer questions that are non-flash related about Proto off-list too if you want to email me directly. Cheers, Byron Proto Software http://www.protosw.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 5:08 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash I know with the security of the Flash player, it's probably not possible or easy (unless MS has some sort of webservice for Exchange servers built in or something) to grab a person's Outlook Calendar or Task list - but what about a Flash desktop application - is that information available through some API? Can a third party app for Flash be used to call an application which will retrieve this data? I know there would be security issues on that too, but I was tasked to investigate this. I might have some resources to write that application, but wouldn't know what the possibilities would be on the Flash end. Anyone done any integration with Outlook before? Thanks. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash
I know with the security of the Flash player, it's probably not possible or easy (unless MS has some sort of webservice for Exchange servers built in or something) to grab a person's Outlook Calendar or Task list You could certainly do this using, for example, ASP or ASP.NET to invoke ADSI/CDO interfaces. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash
Jason, The one way, I followed previously was like: Create a socket server (VC++ based or whatever) which is running on some port. If you plan to have flash client version is 9+ then, it would be better if you have binary socket server. That socket server can have access to Microsoft Office APIs, thorough COM interface. You can pass socket server commands to fetch calendar details from outlook etc., and actually socket server will do that operation and pass the result back to flash. We are developing some product like this which is having integration with outlook. Again this socket server can be a part of your outlook plug-in itself or can be run as system service. Hope this helps :) Regards, Ashvin Savani - Arckid Freelance Developer - Arckid.com Founder CTO - Avinashi.com Adobe Community Expert - Flash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 3:38 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Outlook and Flash I know with the security of the Flash player, it's probably not possible or easy (unless MS has some sort of webservice for Exchange servers built in or something) to grab a person's Outlook Calendar or Task list - but what about a Flash desktop application - is that information available through some API? Can a third party app for Flash be used to call an application which will retrieve this data? I know there would be security issues on that too, but I was tasked to investigate this. I might have some resources to write that application, but wouldn't know what the possibilities would be on the Flash end. Anyone done any integration with Outlook before? Thanks. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
