Creating a unique appointment for later amendment

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Martin Teefy

Hi,

I have a CRM system that uses a calendar control with the event being stored in a database and also in Outlook so blackberry/iphone can see the appts.

But if the user changes the date/time of the appointment or deletes it with the CRM system I need to easily find the appt in outlook hence the unique sequence number per userid

I'm using the following code in VB6 based on some C# sample discussed in one of the pages i found at Sue Mosher's site but i'm not sure what the 4th argument in C# is for:

With objappt

' Read next seq number from the database per user

m_iUniqueId = GetLatestID + 1

m_sUniqueKey = m_pEditingEvent.ScheduleID & "-" & m_iUniqueId

' e.g. 4-23 user id and unique #

> UserProperties.Add m_sUniqueKey, OlUserPropertyType.olText, True

> Save

End With

Will this work without the 4th argument and what would be the Find clause to use in conjunction with the 4-23 example value so i can delete or updae the appt?

Any advice appreciated
 
The 4th argument is for the display format of the user property. It can be

omitted in VB6 code if desired. However, you seem to be adding the property

with a named based on the unique key rather than using a specific name and

setting the value of the property to the key value. Your way would use up

the number of available user properties pretty quickly and would clog up

Exchange with user properties. It would also make it harder to find things.

What version of Outlook are you coding for? Please mention that sort of

thing when you post. If this is for Outlook 2007 or later you can use

GlobalAppointmentID as a key value to find any appointment, it will retain

that value even with appointment changes or updates.

I would name that property a fixed name, say "ApptKey". So the add function

should be changed to return a UserProperty that you can then set:

Dim oProp As Outlook.UserProperty

Set oProp = .UserProeprties.Add("ApptKey", OlUserPropertyType.olText, True)

oProp.Value = m_sUniqueKey

A Find clause would use something like this:

Find("[ApptKey] = '" & sValueToFind & "'")

In that case sValueToFind is the key value you want to find in that

UserProperty.

"Martin Teefy" <martin[dot]teefy[at]crosscompass[dot]com> wrote in message

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> Hi,

> I have a CRM system that uses a calendar control with the event being
> stored in a database and also in Outlook so blackberry/iphone can see the
> appts.

> But if the user changes the date/time of the appointment or deletes it
> with the CRM system I need to easily find the appt in outlook hence the
> unique sequence number per userid

> I'm using the following code in VB6 based on some C# sample discussed in
> one of the pages i found at Sue Mosher's site but i'm not sure what the
> 4th argument in C# is for:

> With objappt

> ' Read next seq number from the database per user
> m_iUniqueId = GetLatestID + 1
> m_sUniqueKey = m_pEditingEvent.ScheduleID & "-" & m_iUniqueId
> ' e.g. 4-23 user id and unique #
> .UserProperties.Add m_sUniqueKey, OlUserPropertyType.olText, True

> .Save

> End With

> Will this work without the 4th argument and what would be the Find clause
> to use in conjunction with the 4-23 example value so i can delete or updae
> the appt?

> Any advice appreciated

>
 
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