Check Availibility in Outlook Calendar

[Vanni1975]

Hi,

In my program i have to check if someone is still available that day.
The users are using Outlook connected to a MS Exchange Server. Is it possible to check there availability like outlook does when you make an appointment and invite other persons ?

Have anyone any idea ?
Thx in advance

Vanni

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Vanni1975

I'm not sure of your level of understanding of Outlook Automation, bu the following should give you the starting time of each appointments in your Outlook calendar (providing its in the default location). From there you can retreive all the pieces of information related to an appointment, including the that at a given time there is no appointment set which would mean that the person is available.

LOCAL nCount
o=CREATEOBJECT("outlook.application")
ns=o.GetNamespace("mapi")
df = ns.GetDefaultFolder(9)
oItems = df.Items
FOR EACH loItem IN oItems
   ? loItem.start
NEXT

Mike Gagnon

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[jonscott8]

If you're wanting to check the availability of users other than only the current user, refer to the FreeBusy method of the Recipient object.

There are several examples in the MSDN.

http://support.microsoft.com/search/

Jon Hawkins