Sending instant messages to any active user

[josel]

Hello y'all!

I was just asked if it is at all possible to send an instant message to any network user based on scheduled activities.

Of course, my supervisor, in the same breath, also slaps me with "Must be possible, outlook does a great job!". I was almost smart enought to suggest we use "outlook"

If you ever used outlook, you should then have an idea of what I am looking for ... Possible? If so, how? Is there a CF_ OR CFX_ out there?

thank you all in advance;


josel If you have the knowledge, consult and educate those who need it! - Jose Lerebours

 

[tleish]

So what you want is a ColdFusion app that allows a user to add a scheduled event to what I'm assuming is a calendar. Then be able to email in "MS Outlook" to a user about that event? - tleish

 

[josel]

Hi tleish!

Not exactly. The application will

A) Gather events (like a calendar)
B) Each event is assigned one or more representatives/owners and possibly dist list
C) Application would need to send reminders to those identified above (B)

Much like when you set an event in Outlook's Calendar. You set your reminder to X minutes, hours, days, ... Outlook pops-up a window on your console to remind you of your scheduled events as the reminders' time frames are met.

So, in short, replace Outlook! This is to be used as a "Contact Manager" of sort. Each account executive would need to set his/her own agendas and leads can be shared by departments (backup if one is gone on vacation). If an executive sets an appointment, application should remind executive of this appointment even he/she is not using application but is logged on on network.

How's that? Hey, I am having problem putting a couple of INSERT and UPDATE queries and I am already looking at bigger and better things down the horizon (next week!)

Thanks in advance for your assistance;

Jose Lerebours
If you have the knowledge, consult and educate those who need it! - Jose Lerebours

 

[pigsie]

This sounds like an interesting application something i'd like to do. I would suggest first of all storing events in a database. You would need to load in the events for the day and then constantly check for one of these events. How to send messages to users over the network is another story perhaps you can find a COM component that does this?

Finaly try

http://www.cf-comet.com

They have a few articles on CF and COM and I think you can use COM to actually program outlook - why re-invent the wheel?

Kola

 

[calista]

Hi, Jose!

Here are some search results of Macromedia's Developers' Exchange that yielded some tags to handle instant messaging.

http://devex.macromedia.com/developer/gallery/SearchResults.cfm?keywords=instant+message&x=13&y=3

Hope this helps! Calista :-X
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