Hyperlink to Outlook "Meeting Request" form in Outlook 2000

[Pistol]

I have a conference room reservation system on our company intranet. I have a "Send Email" option that prefills an email with the subject and some text. I would like to directly hyperlink to the "Meeting Request" form in Outlook from the webpage as opposed to the email form. Is anyone familiar with this?

 

[Javrix]

Not sure if I get it. From the website, you want someone to be able to click on a link and have it go to a form? ~Javrix

If you gave an infinate number of rednecks, an infinate number of shotguns to shoot at an infinate number of street signs, they would eventually write Romeo and Juliet in braille.

 

[Pistol]

Yes that's right. Instead of launching the default email client from a hyperlink (my case is Outlook). I want it to hyperlink directly to the Meeting Request form in Outlook.

The reference below may provide more information for you:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q158/1/35.asp

Here is an excerpt from another article about Outlook 97

"....Why don't Outlook hyperlinks work in Web pages when I'm using Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0?

In my April 1998 column, I wrote about the question "Is it possible to hyperlink to an Outlook message from a Microsoft Excel cell?" Since then, I have had quite a few messages from people frustrated with their inability to get Outlook hyperlinks to work in Web pages.

The two common factors, it turns out, were Outlook folder names with spaces and IE 4.0x. IE 4.0 doesn't handle Outlook items properly when they contain spaces, even when you replace the space with %20. For example, the link

<A HREF=&quot;Outlook:Sent%20Items&quot;> Sent Items </A>

will fail in IE 4.0, although it works just fine in IE 3.x. Because IE 4.01 installs with Outlook 98, it's unfortunate that Microsoft didn't find this problem and fix it. Netscape users might have this problem, too. I don't know of any workaround yet, but I'll keep an eye on developments....&quot;

 

[Bastien]

Pistol,

Try creating an instance of MS Outlook and the function you want through:

Set outApp = CreateObject(&quot;Outlook.application&quot
Set outMessage = outApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)

create a reference to the program and then create an instance of it and fill in the blanks that way...

It's just a thought but I used something similar to the email with ACCESS and the coding is the same for an ASP page...hopefully you're using something like Visual Interdev to do your coding...

Bastien