Hi, I'm using tiddlywiki (monkeygtd actually) to manage my daily work actions and information and so on. One thing I was missing was the functionality to be able to refer to an email message that I keep in Outlook. I wanted to be able to click a button which then opens the message. One big catch : it must work in firefox since I simply do not want to work in Internet Explorer. That proved to be a nasty requirement ! I will explain how I managed to accomplish this and I hope you could comment on it because somewhere I feel there must be a simpler way :)
Step 1 (easy) : create a macro in Outlook to fetch the EntryID of the selected message Step 2 (horror) : copy the ID as text on the Clipboard. Believe it or not, I searched a whole evening on this and finally found a wrapper by Karl E. Peterson. Step 3 (easy) : create a java applet that uses COM+ to talk to Outlook. I used Jacob for this. Step 4 (horror) : make this applet work in firefox. I had to sign the jar file and tweak the java.policy file for it to work. Step 5 (easy) : create the javascript to call the applet Step 6 (easy) : create the Tiddlywiki macro You see I had to go through quite some loops to be able to talk to Outlook from within Firefox. Any suggestions how this could be accomplished more elegantly are welcome ! If someone else is interested, I will happily give any documentation! Thanks for this great wiki application ! Kind regards Henk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
