J
Jevon
Hi,
I'm trying to add some task control to tasks in Outlook, using a .Net COM
Add-in.
In the first instance, I'd like to control deletion of tasks. For example, I
assign a task to Jerry. When Jerry tries to delete the task, it alerts me
and waits for my confirmation. My current thinking to solve this is to
detect the deletion and send a TaskRequestItem to the delegator (plus some
other code to deal with trails of delegation, since Outlook doesn't). The
delegator can then choose when to delete the item.
However, I've come across two problems. Firstly, I attach to the
BeforeDelete event of each item in a folder, and run some code when it's
fired. However, this stopped working mid-session yesterday with no code
changes, and hasn't stared again, despite rebooting - the event gets
attached still but it never gets fired. Secondly, if you do a shift-delete
(i.e. delete completely, not send to Deleted Items), the event is fired, but
the task(s) are deleted anyway; is there anyway around this?
In the second instance, I'd like to enable delegators (e.g. me above) to
edit tasks they have delegated to someone else. Outlook partly allows this -
you can edit the subject in the task list view - but nothing else. Is there
any way to force Outlook to allow complete editing, e.g. by editing the
item's properties or catching the NewInspector event?
Or is there another solution to either of these? I've looked at Shared Tasks
but can't configure them to meet my requirements.
Thanks,
Jevon
I'm trying to add some task control to tasks in Outlook, using a .Net COM
Add-in.
In the first instance, I'd like to control deletion of tasks. For example, I
assign a task to Jerry. When Jerry tries to delete the task, it alerts me
and waits for my confirmation. My current thinking to solve this is to
detect the deletion and send a TaskRequestItem to the delegator (plus some
other code to deal with trails of delegation, since Outlook doesn't). The
delegator can then choose when to delete the item.
However, I've come across two problems. Firstly, I attach to the
BeforeDelete event of each item in a folder, and run some code when it's
fired. However, this stopped working mid-session yesterday with no code
changes, and hasn't stared again, despite rebooting - the event gets
attached still but it never gets fired. Secondly, if you do a shift-delete
(i.e. delete completely, not send to Deleted Items), the event is fired, but
the task(s) are deleted anyway; is there anyway around this?
In the second instance, I'd like to enable delegators (e.g. me above) to
edit tasks they have delegated to someone else. Outlook partly allows this -
you can edit the subject in the task list view - but nothing else. Is there
any way to force Outlook to allow complete editing, e.g. by editing the
item's properties or catching the NewInspector event?
Or is there another solution to either of these? I've looked at Shared Tasks
but can't configure them to meet my requirements.
Thanks,
Jevon