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Title: Create task from e-mail message (revised)
Description: This revised version of an earlier sample shows how to use the Namespace.GetItemFromID method in a "run a script" rule procedure to avoid getting security prompts in Outlook 2003 when the code accesses the Body property. Note that attachments cannot be copied directly between items. They must be saved to the system first, as discussed at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/copyatts.htm.
Date: 07-Jul-2005 01:03
Code level: beginner
Code area: Basic Outlook
Posted by: Sue Mosher
Body: Sub MakeTaskFromMail2(MyMail As Outlook.MailItem) Dim strID As String Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace Dim olMail As Outlook.MailItem Dim objTask As Outlook.TaskItem strID = MyMail.EntryID Set olNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set olMail = olNS.GetItemFromID(strID) Set objTask = Application.CreateItem(olTaskItem) With objTask .Subject = olMail.Subject .DueDate = olMail.SentOn .Body = olMail.Body End With Call CopyAttachments(olMail, objTask) objTask.Save Set objTask = Nothing Set olMail = Nothing Set olNS = Nothing End Sub Sub CopyAttachments(objSourceItem, objTargetItem) Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set fldTemp = fso.GetSpecialFolder(2) ' TemporaryFolder strPath = fldTemp.Path & "\" For Each objAtt In objSourceItem.Attachments strFile = strPath & objAtt.FileName objAtt.SaveAsFile strFile objTargetItem.Attachments.Add strFile, , , objAtt.DisplayName fso.DeleteFile strFile Next Set fldTemp = Nothing Set fso = Nothing End Sub
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	LordRich 05-Aug-2005 07:42 How do I get a toolbar button appear that can be clicked to run this code on the selected (or open) email?
	Sue Mosher 05-Aug-2005 15:09 Set myItem = GetCurrentItem() If myItem.Class = olMail Then MakeTaskFromMail2 myItem End If where GetCurrentItem is the function from the sample at http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=50
	Bradley 23-Aug-2005 22:27 Hi hows it going! I've been testing this script, and it works well, however Outlook comes up each time saying: A Program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to Continue? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose "NO"" And then has an option to only "Allow Access for (dropdown box) list of 1,2,5,10,15mins" - is there anyway to indefinately allow access? The Rule is based on a Distribution List stored on our Address Books -
	Sue Mosher 25-Aug-2005 08:30 Brad, the code above will avoid a securitiy prompt in Outlook 2003. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm for your options for other versions.
	Ernst Bürer 14-Sep-2005 03:13 Great script, question: is there a way to add the original mail as an attachment in the body of the created task: i know i can add the body of the mail, but i want add to the complete email as an attachment. TIA
	Ernst Bürer 14-Sep-2005 03:21 Another question when adding the mail body text into the task body, i want to use the original format (Rich text or whatever), i used .bodyFormat etc but it doesnt work original text is display as non formatted text tnx
	Sue Mosher 14-Sep-2005 09:42 Ernst, take a look at the Attachments.Add method. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/off2000/html/olmthaddattachmentsobj.asp See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/formatmsg.htm for information on the issues involved and solutions available for working with formatted text.
	Greg Toews 24-Sep-2005 19:07 Can you specify what you did to stop the security prompt from appearing in 2003. I have my own routine that works fine as a macro. But when I run it as part of a rule I get the message that is mentioned above by Bradley.
	Sue Mosher 27-Sep-2005 08:16 Greg, the key to avoiding prompts in Outlook 2003 VBA is to make sure every object derives from the intrinsic Application object. That's why the sample above uses the Namespace.GetItemFromID method to return the item that triggered the rule.
	Nathan 15-Dec-2005 08:04 Hi, If I wanted the .DueDate = olMail.SentOn + 1 day, do you know the code for this? Thanks Nathan
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