[RESOLVED] Outlook 2003 Calendar - Email Reminders

[Firemarble]

I need some help developing a way to have Outlook email me a calendar event. That way I can have the event sent to my mobile phone in the form of an email.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[RobDog888]

Is this appointment item created dynamically or is it just a event you wish to have on your phone?

[Firemarble]

i wouldn't say dynamically. Say i have a doctors appointment. I put it in my outlook calendar and set it to email my phone with the details an hour before the appointment. that sort of thing. that way if i am not at my computer i can still be reminded of the event by way of outlook emailing it to my cell.

I know there are third party tools that do this. but i don't want to shell out money or use software that i have really no idea what it will be doing.

[RobDog888]

Oh, ok. I see what you mean now. so in the appoint reminder you want it to fire off a email reminding you of the appoitment.

You dont have to send the actual appontment but just the basic details of it in the email. Let me see what I have up my sleves.

[Firemarble]

awesome man. any help is greatly appreciated.

[RobDog888]

I'll try to post something tomorrow as I am off to bed. Didnt want to leave you hanging.

[Firemarble]

Thanks man.

[RobDog888]

Ok, your not looking for Meeting Requests, only basic AppointmentItems?

[Firemarble]

Yes just Appointments. My computer is not on a domain so meeting request are not that big of a deal.

[RobDog888]

Turned out to be simpler then we thought.

Behind the class "ThisOutlookSession"

Private Sub Application_Reminder(ByVal Item As Object)
    Select Case Item.Class
        Case olAppointment
            'Fires before the reminder dialog popups up. ;)
            'Place the code to send an email here instead of msgbox.
            MsgBox Item.Subject, vbOKOnly, "My Reminder"
    End Select
End Sub

[Firemarble]

well isn't that nifty. That was simpler, i was imagining some huge chunk of code. turns out it was just a few lines.

way to go!

[RobDog888]

There is also an Reminder object and Reminders collection just in case for future reference but we didnt need to get that deep into this. Now its off to work on your other thread some more.

Me = Outlook Fanatic!

[Firemarble]

Yah!

[RobDog888]

Also, the Reminder event will fire again if you choose to Snooze.

[dmcnab]

Good morning....can someone explain to me how I can use this in OL 2003.....I know a bit about VBA, but not enough to figure out (on my own) how to add this code to OL 2003...thanks.