ROcHE Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Some computers on a small LAN are using MS Outlook as their mail application. The .PST file is stored locally and I would like to make overnight backups of it. Outlook has to be closed for the backup to complete succesfully. I need a script that will shutdown outlook properly. I can not simply use winclose or even taskkill.exe because the PST file has to be saved by outlook on every shutdown to make sure it is not corrupted. Ideally, I need a script that will select Outlook in the taskbar, press file and then exit. Then a couple hours later, will restart the application with the same script, having a pause in between. Is that possible with AutoIT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryFrost Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 maybe: Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",2) WinActivate("Microsoft Outlook") WinWaitActive("Microsoft Outlook") Send("!f") Sleep ( 50 ) Send("x") SciTE for AutoItDirections for Submitting Standard UDFs Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROcHE Posted February 18, 2006 Author Share Posted February 18, 2006 maybe: Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",2) WinActivate("Microsoft Outlook") WinWaitActive("Microsoft Outlook") Send("!f") Sleep ( 50 ) Send("x") Perfect! Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberSlug Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 WinClose actually works fine. However, if the user has any unsaved messages he is writing, those will need to be saved to drafts or discarded because a dialog box pops up. I tried the following against a base install of Outlook 2003 where I work: Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) WinClose("- Microsoft Outlook") While WinExists("- Microsoft Outlook") While WinExists("Microsoft Office Word","Do you want to save the changes") ControlClick("Microsoft Office Word","Do you want to save the changes", "&Yes") WEnd WEnd Use Mozilla | Take a look at My Disorganized AutoIt stuff | Very very old: AutoBuilder 11 Jan 2005 prototype I need to update my sig! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROcHE Posted February 19, 2006 Author Share Posted February 19, 2006 WinClose actually works fine. However, if the user has any unsaved messages he is writing, those will need to be saved to drafts or discarded because a dialog box pops up. I tried the following against a base install of Outlook 2003 where I work: Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) WinClose("- Microsoft Outlook") While WinExists("- Microsoft Outlook") While WinExists("Microsoft Office Word","Do you want to save the changes") ControlClick("Microsoft Office Word","Do you want to save the changes", "&Yes") WEnd WEnd That's a nice addition! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleHohm Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Or with COM: $oOutlook = ObjCreate("Outlook.Application") $oOutlook.Quit Dale Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curl MSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object model Automate input type=file (Related) Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded Better Better? IE.au3 issues with Vista - Workarounds SciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead? Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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