Custom meeting request - remove prompt on send.

[Edward Hermanson]

Hi. I am developing a Custom Travel request solution and I use a customized
meeting request form. It is published to a public folder so users can open
it from their actions menu. I use the Item-Send method to send the cal item
to the local user's calendar by adding them to the recipients.

All this works great but on send Outlook thinks the item is not in the local
users calender (apparently this response is prior to my script in my
Item_Send function) and comes up with the standard prompt saying "Responses
for this meeting will not be tallied because this item is not in your main
calendar. Is this OK?". Immediately after this it prompts the user "Would
you like to update you local calendar now?" If the user presses "Yes" to
both Message Boxes everything works great and I could leave it at that but I
would like to get around the 1st Message Box prompt if possible.

Do you know of a way I can script an item save prior to Outlooks send event
response or possible set a property so it does not care?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can't change Outlook's default behavior in this situation. What you
might do is use a "form launcher" form -- usually a post form -- that
contains code to launch another form. In this case, the public folder could
contain the launcher form, but the launcher might create the appointment
right in the user's own Calendar folder. For an example of such a form, see
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms/formlauncher.htm