Update a task with Time Automatically

[TJAC]

A manager at our company wants to set up a rule where the subject says
"action" he would like that email sent to his tasks. That's fine, I can help
him with that, however, then he wants the rule to also look through the email
or even in the subject for a due date for this task. He wants Outlook to
automatically set a due date in the task with reminders. I told him off the
top of my head the only thing I can suggest is have people include the due
date (in the same format) in the subject and then the tasks can be sorted by
that.

Is there a better way that will automate this a little more for him?
I was told I might have a better response in this group.

Thanks in advance

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You could use a rule to call a VBA macro, it's called running a script in
the rules wizard. The macro would get called with the mail item that fired
the rule, so the code in the macro can then parse the message and set up the
task and task properties. For due date there would have to be some
information available to be parsed of course, or the due date could be set
as one week from today or whatever.

There are some code samples of how to format a macro to be called from a
rule at www.outlookcode.com.