Need help with finding/updating task

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tu2011

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Hi!

I'm new to Outlook VBA macros and I'm wondering if someone here would be kind enough to help me out.

My Goal: What I'm trying to do is have a macro that looks at the email's subject heading for a keyword, "SR" when I hit Send button. If it exists, prompt me with a message to create a Task (or automatically create it) with the same subject heading as the email's and a due date 4-5 days from now. If a task with the same subject heading already exist, then either delete it and create a new one or update it with the new date.

The Problem I Currently Have: My script some what works. It prompts and creates a new Task based on the email's subject heading. However, it creates a new task for every time I send the email with the same subject heading (i.e. emails of the same thread). So I end up with multiple tasks getting created. I tried implementing different search functions but I don't know what the proper command to us and how to get it to work. If you can show me how to do so or if you can think of a better way to do this, I would be very much appreciated.

Here is what I have so far.

Code:
Private Sub MyMailItem_Send(Cancel As Boolean)
    Dim olApp   As Outlook.Application
    Dim olTask  As Outlook.TaskItem
    Dim oFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
    Set oFolder = Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderTasks)
    Set colItems = oFolder.Items
    Dim strSubject As String
    Dim objSch As Outlook.Search
   
    If InStr(MyMailItem.Subject, "Mentor Graphics SR") > 0 Then
        If MsgBox("Create A Follow Up Task?", vbYesNo) = vbYes Then
            Set olApp = Application
            strSubject = "Follow Up: " & MyMailItem.To & " : About :" & MyMailItem.Subject
            Dim strFilter As String
            strFilter = "urn:schemas:httpmail:subject = " & strSubject
            Const strScope As String = "'Tasks'"
            Set objSch = olApp.AdvancedSearch(strScope, strFilter)

            If objSch <> Null Then
                olTask.Delete
                MsgBox ("Tasks Found")
            Else
                Set olTask = olApp.CreateItem(olTaskItem)
                olTask.Subject = "Follow Up: " & MyMailItem.To & " : About :" & MyMailItem.Subject
                olTask.Body = olTask.Body & MyMailItem.Body & vbCrLf
                olTask.Categories = Replace(MyMailItem.To, ",", "-")
                olTask.DueDate = Date + 4
                olTask.Status = olTaskWaiting
                olTask.Display
                olTask.Save
                olTask.Close (olSave)
            End If
        End If
    End If
End Sub
 
Calling AdvancedSearch doesn' return the search result, you need to subscribe to the AdvancedSearchComplete event instead.
Code:
private sub Application_AdvancedSearchComplete(byval SearchObject as Search)
 'here check Search.Results
end sub

private sub mymailitem_send(cancel as boolean)
  ...
  application.advancedsearch scope, filter
end sub
 
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