Comments for Access Easy Tips

Comment on From Access to Outlook-Add Your Custom Data to the Outlook Calendar by Patrick Wood

Patrick Wood — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:56:11 +0000

Hi Sam,

I am sorry that I just came across your comment. Somehow I missed it. As to your question GetFolderFromPath is not a part of Outlook VBA. Sue Mosher has a GetFolderPath Function in her 2007 book and GetFolder Function in her 2002 book code that uses the folder path. You can download the code from this page: http://www.outlookcode.com/member/book.aspx

Comment on From Access to Outlook-Add Your Custom Data to the Outlook Calendar by Sam Bremner

Sam Bremner — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:02:39 +0000

hi Patrick,

This article has been very usefull. Thanks so much.
I have one question… Is it possible to use GetFolderFromPath instead of GetFolderFromID to call a folder from the public folders and if so do you know how to do this?

Thanks

Sam

Comment on From Access to Outlook-Add Your Custom Data to the Outlook Calendar by Patrick Wood

Patrick Wood — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:47:52 +0000

Hi Rory,
You are using code to make sure you pass to Outlook the proper data types for some of the values. But you need to verify all the data types that you are passing to Outlook.
You need to use Nz(Me!ApptLength, 30) or some other number for the length of your appointments. Text boxes tend to produce numbers as strings even when we enter numbers.
Also you need to use something like Nz(Me!Mytextbox, “”) so that you do not pass a Null where a string is required which will cause the error you saw. The Nz Function is good to use because it allows you to use either a string or an integer if the value is Null.

If you do that and you still have problems you may need to use code to verify the Date and Time is being passed in the correct format for Outlook.

Of course the best way to do this would be to set a breakpoint and step through the code line by line until you see exactly where the error is occurring.

Comment on From Access to Outlook-Add Your Custom Data to the Outlook Calendar by Rory Blundell

Rory Blundell — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:12:50 +0000

Hi Patrick…a very good piece.

I have been able to get it to work for my default calendar on outlook. However, when i try and use the code above to choose the calendar I want it to go to i keep getting the error message “Error 13: Type Mismatch”.

I was hoping you could have a quick look at my code and correct me where wrong.

Dim outobj As Outlook.Application
Dim outappt As Outlook.AppointmentItem
Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Set outobj = CreateObject(“outlook.application”)
Set olNS = outobj.GetNamespace(“MAPI”)
Set outappt = olNS.PickFolder
With outappt
.Start = Me!ApptDate & ” ” & Me!ApptTime
.Duration = Me!ApptLength
.Subject = Me!Appt
If Not IsNull(Me!ApptNotes) Then .Body = Me!ApptNotes
If Not IsNull(Me!ApptLocation) Then .Location = _
Me!ApptLocation
If Me!ApptReminder Then
.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = Me!ReminderMinutes
.ReminderSet = True

Thanks a lot.

Comment on From Access to Outlook-Add Your Custom Data to the Outlook Calendar by Patrick Wood

Patrick Wood — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:17:27 +0000

Hi Jared,

The place you should ask these questions is on the Microsoft Forums:

Exchange Calendar
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/os_exchangeprotocols/threads

Sharepoint Calendar
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010general/threads

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/threads

Good Luck!