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Outlook Code Samples

dayv2005 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:57:16 +0000

Recently many people have been asking some questions regarding progress integration with outlook. Well i found most my outlook samples that i had. Some were written by some weren't.

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-Outlook 2000 and XP GLobal Defs
-Read/Write Tasks/Appts/Notes/Emails
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Read Receipts, Delivery Receipts, Send on Behalf of with MAPI

dayv2005 — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:09:40 +0000

I couldn't find anywhere to write a specific document on this so i figured I'd start it here till i found out where you post this stuff.

There was this puzzling feature we needed over here at our company. We spent numerous amount of time looking for this, not getting much help on the forums, i finally figured it out and figured i'd share it. If you already knew this sorry, if not i hope this helps.

Well here's the example i used.

DO WITH FRAME {&FRAME-NAME}: DEFINE VARIABLE attach-name AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO.

Get rid of those annoying dialogs when sending emails through outlook

dayv2005 — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:02:39 +0000

This Code sample i posted at progresstalk. I found a place where i could write a snippet and have others be able to access it easily.

This little trick (I translated it from some VB code) will help you get away with the windows dialogs when sending email through out look.

I'm not a big user of SMTPMail.p because we have smtp disabled here, and we use MAPI. It seems like most people prefer SMTP. But i found a way to bypass outlook security. Get rid of those annoying windows dialogs that says another program is accessing outlook, do you allow this?