send email to alpha pager when calender reminder triggered.

[mikeVan]

Hi All,

I was wondering about outlook scripting. I have one requirement and not
sure if it is possible. I want outlook to send a email to my alpha pager when
15 minutes prior to a meeting. Currently I am using windows via a terminal
emulation program on my UNIX workstation. Biggest problem is I don't get
sound
from my windows session, so I don't hear my reminders. Since UNIX allows me
more than one desktop I tend to keep my windows session on a seperate one
from
the ones I actually do my work on. This keeps the cluter down. The problem
with this is I also don't see the visual reminders either. As the pop ups are
restricted to the desktop that is running my windows terminal session. Before
using outlook for
our company used MeetingMaker for a calendar program. MeetingMaker allowed
us to enter a alpha pager mail address. So I would always get my reminders on
my pagers as well as the popups. So I never missed a meeting. Now I have to
constantly flip desktops just to keep track of meetings.

Since I don't do any Visual Basic programming nor do I really know what
outlook can do, I am turning to you all for some advice. Is it possible to
create a pager event when a meeting reminder is triggered? If so I will
invest sometime in learning VB, currently I work mainly in perl/C/C++ so ramp
up time should not be so bad. Just want to make sure I can even do it before
investing time into VB.

Sorry for the long story just trying to get my problem out there. Thanks in
advance
for any feed back....

Mike V...

 

[mikeVan]

Ok I did some looking into this and it seems I can create a event handler to
trigger when remider events happen. So is this the approach I should take
to do what I want to do. Seems I should do some thing like:

1. register event handle for reminder events.
2. create the event handler procedure.
3. Create a mailItem to send off the mail to my pager in the event handler
procedure.

Am I on the right track? If so what type of pit falls should I watch out for?
Any tips for a first timer? How about exception handling? what type of things
to watch out for?

Thanks in advance,

Mike V...

 

[Marce]

Mike,

I need to do something similar. I need to send email when there's a calendar
or task reminder in my Outlook. That email will get into my cellular as an
SMS so I'll get the reminder although I'm not at my desk. The email to SMS
conversion is done by the cell company but I need to do the Outlook
automation.

Can you give me some details on how to start? Sending email seems to be easy
but I have no idea how to catch the reminder.

I'd appreciate your help.

Marce

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes, that's on the right track. IIRC, there's a code sample at http://www.slipstick.com/addins/pager.htm

Definitely include at least an On Error Resume Next statement to handle all errors. Other issues may depend on your OUtlook version, which you didn't mention.

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

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The Outlook Application object raises a Reminder event.

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