Referencing data held in Access tables

[Vaughan]

I had a look through some of the posts on here, but I couldn't rally see what I was looking for, so forgive me if this is not a new question.

I want to develop a Project monitoring tool using Outlook/Exchange folders. During the course of a project itis common for any of a huge number of people in the business to raise questions or comments relating to the project . A great many of these fall into the ether and are either dealt with only when the matter is urgent, or forgotten altogether, often only re-emerging when a customer says (too late) "...but what about ..."

We already have a project database incorporating all kinds of financial, commercial, planning/timetable and technical information. I want to open up a secure filing space for questions/comments and their responses along with agreed actions, responsibilities etc.

This sounds like an Exchange folder to me, but I would like to be able to open a new folder for a project, and populate a number of relevant fields from the existing Access database to avoid dual entry. In a further step, I would like some of these to be updated dynamically with, for example, financial information that changes froom day to day.

Is it possible, therefore, to query an Access table (or a query) and store the returned data as fields in an Exchange/Outlook item? Do I need programming skills? How specialised.

I would be grateful for any general advice or pointers that may assist.

any thanks

Vaughan

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes, you need both database and Outlook programming skills. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/database.htm

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I had a look through some of the posts on here, but I couldn't rally see

what I was looking for, so forgive me if this is not a new question.

I want to develop a Project monitoring tool using Outlook/Exchange

folders. During the course of a project itis common for any of a huge number
of people in the business to raise questions or comments relating to the
project . A great many of these fall into the ether and are either dealt
with only when the matter is urgent, or forgotten altogether, often only
re-emerging when a customer says (too late) "...but what about ..."

We already have a project database incorporating all kinds of financial,

commercial, planning/timetable and technical information. I want to open up
a secure filing space for questions/comments and their responses along with
agreed actions, responsibilities etc.

This sounds like an Exchange folder to me, but I would like to be able to

open a new folder for a project, and populate a number of relevant fields
from the existing Access database to avoid dual entry. In a further step, I
would like some of these to be updated dynamically with, for example,
financial information that changes froom day to day.

Is it possible, therefore, to query an Access table (or a query) and store

the returned data as fields in an Exchange/Outlook item? Do I need
programming skills? How specialised.