Interfacing with MS Outlook

[Lynch, Jonathan]

This may be a bit off from what you guys want...

But there is a way to generate an e-mail in outlook from RR. The basic
idea is to use RR to create a document with all the needed MS-Word
scripting so that, when you use a shell command to launch the document,
it automatically opens up as an e-mail in Outlook. These e-mails include
an embedded picture and quite a few html-style links for navigation
within the document.

I do this for work, and it works great. However, it was rather tricky to
set up, and (for reasons I do not fully comprehend) there are some
computers in a different department at work where it does not work -
probably something to do with the MS Word email envelope not being
compatible with the version of MS Word on that computer.

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[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Alex
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:35 AM
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Subject: Re: Interfacing with MS Outlook

phillip mukhwana wrote:

>Hi Danny,
>
> 
>
>I am trying to do exactly what you mentioned...i.e. not try and
>re-invent the wheel yet take advantage of the rapid deployment
>capabilities of Revolution and combine these with existing
functionality
>in Outlook.
>
> 
>
>Have you had any joy on this since posting this? I have racked the
>internet looking for some code or external that I might use but have
>drawn only blanks so far. I would appreciate if you have found
anything.
>  
>
You might take a look with Google at "python com outlook"

There are a number of open source Python projects that use ActiveX to 
interface to Outlook, since they're open source, you might find enough 
info from them to help. Though you still have to interface to ActiveX - 
I don't know of (and quick search didn't find) any RR external to give 
access to ActiveX. 

Maybe you would need to use a Python (or other language) intermediary to

get from RR to ActiveX.

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