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Trent
Hi everyone,
I need to be able to generate a calendar entry in a public folder calendar
on our exchange server from a web based app and am wondering what the best
approach would be.
Situation: We have a complex Outlook based form application for scheduling
new hires and moves within the company.
We have had temendous problems with this form remaining functional as
versions of Outlook change and heightened security is applied.
In short, the forms need to be moved to a web based application where we can
tie into a database.
This in itself is not the problem. But one aspect of the old forms is that
it would on a button press pass some data fields to a custom calendar form
so that the event can be scheduled on our facilities calendar.
I am trying to determine what the best approach would be to populate the
event information into the Outlook/Exchange calendar.
Should I try going the complex route of tying directly into the calendar
LIVE from our web application (all internal intranet) or would it be
possible to generate an email with the information that could be easily
imported into the existing custom calendar form?
OR, can I use activeX to open the custom calendar form directly from the web
page and pass in the values the way the old form did?
I do not know what would be involved doing this from the web and where the
pitfalls will be and would greatly appreciate advice.
If anyone has any source for sample code doing anything remotely similar
that could be very helpful as well.
Only a very few people will be using the portion of the app to generate the
calendar event or I would not even consider directly accessing the desktop
Outlook to get at the form as it will generate warning messages in the
browser and corporate policy will not let us turn this off.
We are also working in an IE only environment which will make the
programming a lot easier not having to worry about cross browser issues.
Thanks.
Trent
I need to be able to generate a calendar entry in a public folder calendar
on our exchange server from a web based app and am wondering what the best
approach would be.
Situation: We have a complex Outlook based form application for scheduling
new hires and moves within the company.
We have had temendous problems with this form remaining functional as
versions of Outlook change and heightened security is applied.
In short, the forms need to be moved to a web based application where we can
tie into a database.
This in itself is not the problem. But one aspect of the old forms is that
it would on a button press pass some data fields to a custom calendar form
so that the event can be scheduled on our facilities calendar.
I am trying to determine what the best approach would be to populate the
event information into the Outlook/Exchange calendar.
Should I try going the complex route of tying directly into the calendar
LIVE from our web application (all internal intranet) or would it be
possible to generate an email with the information that could be easily
imported into the existing custom calendar form?
OR, can I use activeX to open the custom calendar form directly from the web
page and pass in the values the way the old form did?
I do not know what would be involved doing this from the web and where the
pitfalls will be and would greatly appreciate advice.
If anyone has any source for sample code doing anything remotely similar
that could be very helpful as well.
Only a very few people will be using the portion of the app to generate the
calendar event or I would not even consider directly accessing the desktop
Outlook to get at the form as it will generate warning messages in the
browser and corporate policy will not let us turn this off.
We are also working in an IE only environment which will make the
programming a lot easier not having to worry about cross browser issues.
Thanks.
Trent