Outlook: Public Folders Task Reminders

[bleachlpb]

I set up a set of public folders that hold contacts, journal entries, and tasks. I customized the journal entry form and the task entry form, so when a new entry is made for one of the contacts, they are filed into the correct public folder, respectively.

The problem is I am trying to figure out a way for the task reminder to work. The day the task is due, I would like the task to generate a message item and place it in the user's inbox, so they see it.

I wrote a chunk of code that does this successfully - but for it to work it must run once a day to enumerate a list of the public tasks that are due that day, then generate a message for the successful matches. The problem is I would like to get Outlook to run this code automatically at a specified time (daily).

Is there any way in outlook to schedule a piece of code to run? I used my code chunk in an Application Reminder event, and configured a recurring calendar appointment to generate a reminder each day - this fires the App Reminder event which in turn runs my code. But, this pops up a reminder message to the user. I would like the process to be transparent to the user.

I wrote a script that does the same thing - but I can't get to redemption to send the email. The thinking with a script is to schedule it with the at command.

I'm so close to a suitable solution but there always seems to be one small problem in my way.

 

[secondguess]

I am not a vb programmer but I do want to achive the setting up of a reminder for tasks - I do not need this to be done automatically for now. It sounds like you have achieved this in some way - are you willing to share the code that you created? I understand if you are not.

many thanks

 

[bleachlpb]

If you want to receive reminders for items that are located in public folders, try out Slovak Technical Services' Reminder Manager. Someone referred me to it and I tried it out a few days ago, and it does exactly what I was looking for!