hyperlink to an email

[YouBetcha]

Is there a way to create a hyperlink in OneNote to an e-mail message in
outlook?

I don't want to copy the e-mail or print it into OneNote -- I'd like the
e-mail to stay in Outlook, but just open up when I click on a link to it on a
page in ON.

 

[Josh Einstein]

The unfortunate thing is, yeah there is but I don't think Outlook exposes it
in any way. Outlook registers a URL handler for outlook:// and I think if
you do outlook://entryid (where entryid is the PR_ENTRY_ID property of the
message) then it will open that item. But I'm not sure how you'd get to that
property without code.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

What version of OneNote are you using?

OneNote 2007 supports a "Send to OneNote" button in Outlook that will create
a hyperlink (and copy of the message) in OneNote. You could always delete
the message content and just retain the link if you wanted to.

You might also check out this article:
http://mutable.net/blog/archive/2006/09/02/how_to_hyperlink_to_microsoft_outlook_messages.aspx
though it is rather technical.

 

[YouBetcha]

I am using ON 2007 (I didn't think 2003 even had hyperlinks).

Unfortunately "Send to OneNote" does not include a hyperlink from an e-mail
(as it does from the web). The attached link is on point but the limitation
that the link has to change if the e-mail is moved from the exchange server
to a local folder is quite a limitation.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

I am using ON 2007 (I didn't think 2003 even had hyperlinks).

You can't hyperlink into OneNote 2003 but you can hyperlink OUT of it - and
since you wanted to link to Outlook objects...

Unfortunately "Send to OneNote" does not include a hyperlink from an
e-mail
(as it does from the web). The attached link is on point but the
limitation
that the link has to change if the e-mail is moved from the exchange
server
to a local folder is quite a limitation.

I think that'll be true of any solution - if the "path" to the item changes
because it's moved then the link would necessarily have to change.