Outlook Search Folders

[HighlanderSword]

Hello,

I'm attempting to get the Store id and the Entry id of various Search folders in Outlook 2013.

I'm able to manually get them by selecting them and the running the code below

and I get the result of

\\Paul Schrader 2012\search folders\Mail to Read

 

When I change the _ol_folderget to

_OL_FolderGet($oOutlook,"\\Paul Schrader 2012\search folders\Mail to Read")

_OL_FolderGet($oOutlook,"Paul Schrader 2012\search folders\Mail to Read")

_OL_FolderGet($oOutlook,"Paul Schrader 2012\search folders\Mail to Read\")

I get error messages of @error=1 and extended = 4. I need to get this information for over 400 Search folders.

 

What am I missing ?

 

#include <OutlookEX.au3>

Global $oOutlook = _OL_Open()

Global $SrchFolder = _OL_FolderGet($oOutlook)

_ArrayDisplay($Srchfolder)

 

 

 

 

 

[water]

The UDF does not support search folders. You need to use something like this:

#include <OutlookEX.au3>

Global $oOL = _OL_Open()
Global $oNamespace = $oOL.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Global $oDefaultStore = $oNamespace.DefaultStore
Global $oSearchFolders = $oDefaultStore.GetSearchFolders
Global $oSearchFolder = $oSearchFolders("Mail to Read")

;-------------------------------------
; Get all mails from the search folder
;-------------------------------------
Global $aItems = _OL_ItemFind($oOL, $oSearchFolder, $olMail, "", "", "", "Subject,Body")
_ArrayDisplay($aItems, "Unread mails")

 

Edited January 21, 2017 by water

[HighlanderSword]

Thank, The information you provided worked

[water]

[Murenuchi]

Hello,

I'm trying to get the email count from 3 search folders (on 3 different mailboxes).  I'm still really new to this, so I figured that if I repeat the steps for each mailbox, I would get 3 different results.  Here's my code:

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Global $oOL = _OL_Open()
Global $oNamespace = $oOL.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Global $oDefaultStore = $oNamespace.DefaultStore ; Access the default store
Global $oSearchFolders = $oDefaultStore.GetSearchFolders ; Access the collection of search folders
Global $oSearchFolder = $oSearchFolders("Unreplied") ; Access the search folder named "Mail to Read"


;-------------------------------------
; Get all mails from the search folder1
;-------------------------------------
Global $aItems = _OL_ItemFind($oOL, $oSearchFolder, $olMail, "", "", "", "Subject,Body")
_ArrayDisplay($aItems, "Unreplied mails")



Global $oOL2 = _OL_Open()
Global $oNamespace2 = $oOL2.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Global $oDefaultStore2 = $oNamespace2.DefaultStore ; Access the default store
Global $oSearchFolders2 = $oDefaultStore2.GetSearchFolders ; Access the collection of search folders
Global $oSearchFolder2 = $oSearchFolders2("Unreplied2") ; Access the search folder named "Mail to Read"


;-------------------------------------
; Get all mails from the search folder2
;-------------------------------------
Global $aItems2 = _OL_ItemFind($oOL2, $oSearchFolder2, $olMail, "", "", "", "Subject,Body")
_ArrayDisplay($aItems2, "Unreplied mails")



Global $oOL3 = _OL_Open()
Global $oNamespace3 = $oOL3.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Global $oDefaultStore3 = $oNamespace3.DefaultStore ; Access the default store
Global $oSearchFolders3 = $oDefaultStore3.GetSearchFolders ; Access the collection of search folders
Global $oSearchFolder3 = $oSearchFolders3("Unreplied3") ; Access the search folder named "Mail to Read"


;-------------------------------------
; Get all mails from the search folder2
;-------------------------------------
Global $aItems3 = _OL_ItemFind($oOL3, $oSearchFolder3, $olMail, "", "", "", "Subject,Body")
_ArrayDisplay($aItems3, "Unreplied mails")

The first one comes up ok.  But the rest won't display the results.  Is there another way of doing this?

Thanks in advance!!

[water]

You do not need to multiply the whole code. This stripped down version should do the trick as well (untested):

#include <OutlookEX.au3>
Global $oOL = _OL_Open()
Global $oNamespace = $oOL.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Global $oDefaultStore = $oNamespace.DefaultStore ; Access the default store
Global $oSearchFolders = $oDefaultStore.GetSearchFolders ; Access the collection of search folders
Global $oSearchFolder1 = $oSearchFolders("Unreplied") ; Access the search folder named "Mail to Read"

;-------------------------------------
; Get all mails from the search folder1
;-------------------------------------
Global $aItems = _OL_ItemFind($oOL, $oSearchFolder1, $olMail, "", "", "", "Subject,Body")
_ArrayDisplay($aItems, "Unreplied mails")

; Global $oOL2 = _OL_Open()
; Global $oNamespace2 = $oOL2.GetNamespace("MAPI")
; Global $oDefaultStore2 = $oNamespace2.DefaultStore ; Access the default store
; Global $oSearchFolders2 = $oDefaultStore2.GetSearchFolders ; Access the collection of search folders
Global $oSearchFolder2 = $oSearchFolders("Unreplied2") ; Access the search folder named "Mail to Read"

;-------------------------------------
; Get all mails from the search folder2
;-------------------------------------
Global $aItems2 = _OL_ItemFind($oOL, $oSearchFolder2, $olMail, "", "", "", "Subject,Body")
_ArrayDisplay($aItems2, "Unreplied mails")

; Global $oOL3 = _OL_Open()
; Global $oNamespace3 = $oOL3.GetNamespace("MAPI")
; Global $oDefaultStore3 = $oNamespace3.DefaultStore ; Access the default store
; Global $oSearchFolders3 = $oDefaultStore3.GetSearchFolders ; Access the collection of search folders
Global $oSearchFolder3 = $oSearchFolders("Unreplied3") ; Access the search folder named "Mail to Read"

;-------------------------------------
; Get all mails from the search folder2
;-------------------------------------
Global $aItems3 = _OL_ItemFind($oOL, $oSearchFolder3, $olMail, "", "", "", "Subject,Body")
_ArrayDisplay($aItems3, "Unreplied mails")

 

[Murenuchi]

Thanks water!  But it still doesn't show the results for the 2nd and 3rd search folders.  I'm thinking I might have missed indicating the mailbox name?  Not sure where to put it though.

[water]

So you checking 3 search folders in 3 different stores (Mailboxes)?

[Murenuchi]

yup!  3 search folders in 3 different mailboxes (1 search folder each mailbox).

[water]

As a start. This little script lists all search folders in all accessed stores:

#include <OutlookEX.au3>
Global $oOL = _OL_Open()
Global $oStores = $oOL.Session.Stores
ConsoleWrite("Store count: " & $oStores.Count & @CRLF)
For $i = 1 To $oStores.Count
    $oStore = $oStores($i)
    ConsoleWrite("Store " & $i & ": Displayname: " & $oStore.DisplayName & ", FilePath: " & $oStore.FilePath & @CRLF)
    $oSearchFolders = $oStore.GetSearchFolders
    For $oSearchFolder In $oSearchFolders
        ConsoleWrite("  SearchFolder: " & $oSearchFolder.FolderPath & @CRLF)
    Next
Next

 

[JLogan3o13]

Not sure how this one stayed so long in the Examples forum. Moved to the appropriate forum.

[Murenuchi]

18 hours ago, water said:

As a start. This little script lists all search folders in all accessed stores:

#include <OutlookEX.au3>
Global $oOL = _OL_Open()
Global $oStores = $oOL.Session.Stores
ConsoleWrite("Store count: " & $oStores.Count & @CRLF)
For $i = 1 To $oStores.Count
    $oStore = $oStores($i)
    ConsoleWrite("Store " & $i & ": Displayname: " & $oStore.DisplayName & ", FilePath: " & $oStore.FilePath & @CRLF)
    $oSearchFolders = $oStore.GetSearchFolders
    For $oSearchFolder In $oSearchFolders
        ConsoleWrite("  SearchFolder: " & $oSearchFolder.FolderPath & @CRLF)
    Next
Next

 

Thanks water!  I'll play around with it for a while.  I'll update you with the result.