Sending the file attachment of an appointment item to all the invitees of the meeting "dev" <roshni.ramnani[ at ]gmail.com> 2/2/2007 9:25:50 AM I have created an outlook add-in using vs2005 and vsto. After attaching a file to an appointment item in my outlook calender, i would like to forward this file to all attendees of the meeting such that on receipt of the mail, the attachment automatically gets saved to their outlook calender. Is there any way to do this?

Re: Sending the file attachment of an appointment item to all the invitees of the meeting "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslovak[ at ]mvps.org> 2/2/2007 3:47:30 PM Get the Recipients collection of the appointment and send an email to each recipient with that attachment. Each Recipient has a Type property. If Type is olTo the attendee is a required attendee. If it's olCC it's an optional attendee, and if olBCC it's a resource. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm "dev" <roshni.ramnani[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1170408350.310530.242890[ at ]h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] >I have created an outlook add-in using vs2005 and vsto. > > After attaching a file to an appointment item in my outlook > calender, i would like to forward this file to all attendees of the > meeting such that on receipt of the mail, the attachment automatically > gets saved to their outlook calender. Is there any way to do this? >

Re: Sending the file attachment of an appointment item to all the invitees of the meeting "dev" <roshni.ramnani[ at ]gmail.com> 2/5/2007 3:43:59 AM On Feb 2, 8:47 pm, "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslo...[ at ]mvps.org> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Get the Recipients collection of the appointment and send an email to each > recipient with that attachment. > > Each Recipient has a Type property. If Type is olTo the attendee is a > required attendee. If it's olCC it's an optional attendee, and if olBCC it's > a resource. > > -- > Ken Slovak > [MVP - Outlook]http://www.slovaktech.com > Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 > Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Optionshttp://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > > "dev" <roshni.ramn...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1170408350.310530.242890[ at ]h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > > > > >I have created an outlook add-in using vs2005 and vsto. > > > After attaching a file to an appointment item in my outlook > > calender, i would like to forward this file to all attendees of the > > meeting such that on receipt of the mail, the attachment automatically > > gets saved to their outlook calender. Is there any way to do this?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Thanks for your reply ken. I wanted to know after forwarding the attachment to all the attendees, how do i make sure that it gets saved to the recipients calender. Is there any way to do this in outlook directly? or will this have to be handled via code? The add-in would be running on the client machine so if i need to handle this via code how do i go about it? do i need to monitor each mail item that is recieved and check for the attachment? If I do have to check for each mail item recieved wouldnt the perfomance on the client machine be poor?

Re: Sending the file attachment of an appointment item to all the invitees of the meeting "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslovak[ at ]mvps.org> 2/5/2007 3:17:01 PM Well, really your best bet is to send the attachment along with the original meeting request. That would handle the task of automatically adding the meeting and attached file to the recipient's calendar folder. If you send an update meeting request that would also work but would update the original meeting, which may not be what you want. In general if you add something to a meeting Outlook will want to update that meeting for all the meeting recipients. So it's best to do everything once at the beginning. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm "dev" <roshni.ramnani[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1170647039.874617.26800[ at ]v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... <snip> [Quoted Text] > Thanks for your reply ken. I wanted to know after forwarding the > attachment to all the attendees, how do i make sure that it gets saved > to the recipients calender. Is there any way to do this in outlook > directly? or will this have to be handled via code? The add-in would > be running on the client machine so if i need to handle this via code > how do i go about it? do i need to monitor each mail item that is > recieved and check for the attachment? If I do have to check for each > mail item recieved wouldnt the perfomance on the client machine be > poor? >

Re: Sending the file attachment of an appointment item to all the invitees of the meeting "dev" <roshni.ramnani[ at ]gmail.com> 2/6/2007 5:37:08 AM On Feb 5, 8:17 pm, "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslo...[ at ]mvps.org> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Well, really your best bet is to send the attachment along with the original > meeting request. That would handle the task of automatically adding the > meeting and attached file to the recipient's calendar folder. > > If you send an update meeting request that would also work but would update > the original meeting, which may not be what you want. In general if you add > something to a meeting Outlook will want to update that meeting for all the > meeting recipients. So it's best to do everything once at the beginning. > > -- > Ken Slovak > [MVP - Outlook]http://www.slovaktech.com > Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 > Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Optionshttp://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > > "dev" <roshni.ramn...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1170647039.874617.26800[ at ]v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... > <snip> > > > > > Thanks for your reply ken. I wanted to know after forwarding the > > attachment to all the attendees, how do i make sure that it gets saved > > to the recipients calender. Is there any way to do this in outlook > > directly? or will this have to be handled via code? The add-in would > > be running on the client machine so if i need to handle this via code > > how do i go about it? do i need to monitor each mail item that is > > recieved and check for the attachment? If I do have to check for each > > mail item recieved wouldnt the perfomance on the client machine be > > poor?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Thanks again for your suggestions. But as per the requirements of the add-in i am developing i need to allow this attachment to be sent even after the meeting request has been accepted by all. Not only that, even the other invitees (other than the one who sent the meeting request) of the meeting should be able to send this attachment, so using "update meeting" is not an option. On using the forward option under the Actions Menu, the meeting along with the attachment can be sent after the user types in the e-mail addresses it is to be forwarded to. In this case the meeting itself gets at the updated at the recipients calender, but the attachment doesnt. How could i force the attachment to also get saved at the recipients calender?

Re: Sending the file attachment of an appointment item to all the invitees of the meeting "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslovak[ at ]mvps.org> 2/6/2007 2:41:13 PM In that case you'd need code running on each recipient's computer that checked for something special in those incoming items and found the relevant meeting in the user's calendar and then added or updated the attachment on the meeting. Making a change like that might (would probably) end up also causing a meeting update. Good luck with that. Reviewing the specs for the solution might be a better idea. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm "dev" <roshni.ramnani[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1170740228.873479.109310[ at ]a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > On Feb 5, 8:17 pm, "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslo...[ at ]mvps.org> > wrote: >> Well, really your best bet is to send the attachment along with the >> original >> meeting request. That would handle the task of automatically adding the >> meeting and attached file to the recipient's calendar folder. >> >> If you send an update meeting request that would also work but would >> update >> the original meeting, which may not be what you want. In general if you >> add >> something to a meeting Outlook will want to update that meeting for all >> the >> meeting recipients. So it's best to do everything once at the beginning. >> >> -- >> Ken Slovak >> [MVP - Outlook]http://www.slovaktech.com >> Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 >> Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment >> Optionshttp://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm >> >> "dev" <roshni.ramn...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message >> >> news:1170647039.874617.26800[ at ]v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... >> <snip> >> >> >> >> > Thanks for your reply ken. I wanted to know after forwarding the >> > attachment to all the attendees, how do i make sure that it gets saved >> > to the recipients calender. Is there any way to do this in outlook >> > directly? or will this have to be handled via code? The add-in would >> > be running on the client machine so if i need to handle this via code >> > how do i go about it? do i need to monitor each mail item that is >> > recieved and check for the attachment? If I do have to check for each >> > mail item recieved wouldnt the perfomance on the client machine be >> > poor?- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > Thanks again for your suggestions. But as per the requirements of the > add-in i am developing i need to allow this attachment to be sent even > after the meeting request has been accepted by all. Not only that, > even the other invitees (other than the one who sent the meeting > request) of the meeting should be able to send this attachment, so > using "update meeting" is not an option. On using the forward option > under the Actions Menu, the meeting along with the attachment can be > sent after the user types in the e-mail addresses it is to be > forwarded to. In this case the meeting itself gets at the updated at > the recipients calender, but the attachment doesnt. How could i force > the attachment to also get saved at the recipients calender? >