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Hi There,

I'm trying to make an appointment  in one of my outlook agenda's not beeing the default agenda (normally calendar)

At home I'm using office 365 (3 agenda's: calendar, main and albert
At work in a exchange outlook environment its : Albert Maathuis and Company

I would like to acces any agenda and make an appointment from autiIT.

For the default agenda (home this is calendar; at work this is Albert Maathuis) everything works fine, but making an appointment in the agenda albert (at home) or Company (at work) I cannot get it done. 
Below is the code that doesn't give any errors, but only puts the appointment in the "calendar"and not in the calendar named "albert"

Anyone having suggestions?

$objOL = ObjGet("", "Outlook.Application")
_OL_FolderAccess($objOL,"\info@les7anges.com\albert")
$agenda = $objOL.CreateItem ($olAppointmentItem)
$agenda.Location = "location"
$agenda.Subject = "Appointment made by me"
$agenda.Body = "Extra information"
$agenda.Start = _Now()
$agenda.Duration = 60
$agenda.Save

 

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@albertmaathuis have you looked at water's great Outlook UDF (below))? I use _OL_ItemCreate to create appointments.

 

 

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Why don't you just create it manually, why are you trying to automate something like this? It's a simple task that hardly needs repetition.

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@JLogan3o13: Thanks for your reply, I already looked in his UDF and tried some things, but everything came in the default agenda, perhaps I made some mistakes...

I will try your proposal of _OL_Itemcreate again.

@BrewManNH: The reason is the following: I want to make not only one appointment. In the software I start with one date and the software is then generating follow-up dates.

There will be at least 5 follow-ups, with different kind of intervals and in different agenda's 

So basicly I need to know how to make an appointment in the agenda of someone else (normally a shared agenda) on a specific time en date.

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Which function did you check?

  • _OL_Wrapper_CreateAppointment: This is a simplified wrapper with limited features so people using the original Outlook UDF didn't need to rewrite their scripts.
  • _OL_ItemCreate: This - plus additional functions - should help you solve your issue.
    Have a look at example script _OL_ItemCreate.au3. There is an appointment example that shows how to specify a calendar where to create the appointment.

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.. or if any problems arise ;)

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Yes, problems did arise.

I succeeded in making appointments in my own calendar, a shared calendar on my laptop and also making an appointment in my own calendar on the companies network (Exchange and outlook).
The thing I cannot get to work is making an appointment in the calendar of a colleague in the exchange environment at work.
I have rights to make an appointment, but I don't know how to acces his map. (This is also not visible when I go to his calendar and display his calendar settings)

This is the simple version of then program up to now:

#include <OutlookEX.au3>

Global $oOutlook = _OL_Open()
Global $calender_to_acces

;TEST-1
;$calender_to_acces=""
; works for the default calendar in a local outlook environment (office 365, outlook 2016, the calendar name = "calendar"
; works for the default calendar in a network environment (exchange, outlook 2016, the calendar name = "e-mail adres of the currentuser"


;TEST-2
;$calender_to_acces="*\main_agenda\sub agenda\Albert agenda"
; works for a specified calendar in a local outlook environment (office 365, outlook 2016,the calendar name = Albert agenda"

$calender_to_acces = InputBox("test", "Name of the agenda", "", "",- 1, -1, 0, 0)

$oItem = _OL_ItemCreate($oOutlook, $olAppointmentItem, $calender_to_acces, "", "Subject=TestSubject", "Start=" & _NowCalc(), "End=" & _DateAdd("h", 1, _NowCalc()))

If @error <> 0 Then Exit MsgBox(16, "OutlookEX UDF: _OL_ItemCreate Example Script", "Error creating an appointment in folder "&$calender_to_acces&". @error = " & @error & ", @extended = " & @extended)

_OL_Close($oOutlook)

 

After the test-1 and test-2 I tried to acces the company calendar by puting in the inputbox:
*\company --company ---\\company --\company --*\company\ -- company@companyname.com and so on, but nothings works.

On the internet I found a VBA code, but I cannot get it to work / replace it in AutoIT (see the attached file)

Perhaps you can help me with this?

 

 

VBA creating appointment in other user.pdf

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Here you find some documentation on how to access folders (local/public/...).
After successfully calling _OL_FolderAccess pass $aFolder[1] to _OL_itemCreate.

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