Add LinkedContact with Custom URL protocol handler

[Silas Peter]

Hi,

I have a custom URL protocolhandler which opens an Outlook Task item. I wish
to add a linked contact via the protocol handler.

The best that I could do is add the LinkedContact's email address to the
recipients with the "/m" switch and passing the mail address as the
parameter, then with an on NewInspector handler in a plugin look up the
contacts list with this email address and Add the link.

However this requires Outlook to be running and the plugin to be running.

I wish to achieve the same without Outlook/plugin running. Can I have a
macro acieve the same? Is there some other way to acieve the same?

Regards,
Silas.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Can you use an Outlook link reference like this:

Outlook:entryID

That would use the long-term EntryID of the item, in this case a contact. By
parsing that you can get the EntryID of the contact, which you can use to
retrieve the item.