So i have been struggling with this issue for about a week now. The below code is the opening portion of a project I'm working on.
The goal here is to open up the address-book pop-up for the Global Address List in outlook. I gathered most of this code from another question or two here on stacked overflow. The issue is, when I get to the final line
Set Dialog = outlookApp.Session.GetSelectNamesDialog
I get a "Run-time error '287': Application-defined or object-defined error"
Yes, Outlook 16.0 reference library is checked off.
I was curious about object security blocking.
I recently updated to GetGlobalAddressList to fix a similair issue.
Sub AddTestConductor() 'inserts information for a new TC from GAL
Dim OutlookApp As Outlook.Application
Dim OutlookNameSpace As Outlook.Namespace
Dim Dialog As Outlook.SelectNamesDialog
Dim GAL As Outlook.AddressList
Dim TCEntry As Outlook.AddressEntry
Dim User As Outlook.ExchangeUser
Dim Alias As String
Dim FirstName As String
Dim LastName As String
Dim Email As String
Dim where As String
Set OutlookApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application") 'grabs outlook for use
Set OutlookNameSpace = OutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
OutlookNameSpace.Logon , , True, False
Set GAL = OutlookApp.Session.GetGlobalAddressList
Set Dialog = OutlookApp.Session.GetSelectNamesDialog
With Dialog
.AllowMultipleSelection = False
.InitialAddressList = GAL
.ShowOnlyInitialAddressList = True
If .Display Then
Alias = Dialog.Recipients.Item(1).Name
Set TCEntry = GAL.AddressEntries(Alias)
Set User = TCEntry.GetExchangeUser
If Not User Is Nothing Then 'populate variable for name and e-mail0
FirstName = User.FirstName
LastName = User.LastName
Email = User.PrimarySmtAddress
End If
End If
End With
Set OutlookApp = Nothing 'Empty objects for next use
Set Dialog = Nothing
Set GAL = Nothing
Set TCEntry = Nothing
Set User = Nothing
In addition to the above, I would like to specify a sub folder withing th GAL, to wean the list down.
Info grabbed from the GAL with be inserted into a spreadsheet, then I will need to create links to calendar dates from their information as well. I haven't gotten that far yet.
I'm currently just trying to gather info about a user as baby step number one.
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I have managed to get access to the items in 2 folders in Outlook from Excel by using VBA, but now I want to search for the email address x#gmail.com in both aI know how to search each one individually, but once, and sort for the most recent one. The piece I am stuck on is how to look through both folders at once.
I am using Microsoft Office 2016
Obviously, this dummy line does not do the trick: Set olJoinedFldr = olCleanUp + olFldr
Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application 'set app
Dim olNs As Object 'get namespace
Dim olFldr As Outlook.Folder 'to be the inbox
Dim olArchive As Outlook.Folder 'the archive folder
Dim olCleanUp As Outlook.Folder ' the archive subfolder we need
Dim olJoinedFldr As Object 'the to be made joined object to filter....
Dim olItems As Object 'filtered items based on search criteria
Dim olItemReply As Object 'the reply mail
Dim i As Long
Dim emailStr As String
Dim filter As String
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set olNs = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFldr = olNs.GetDefaultFolder(6) ' olFolderInbox
Set olArchive = olNs.Folders(CStr(olNs.Accounts.Item(1))) 'find email of current user
Set olCleanUp = olArchive.Folders("Archive").Folders("Cleanup") ' get the archive sub folder
Set olJoinedFldr = olCleanUp + olFldr
Set emailStr = "somebody#gmail.com"
filter = "[SenderEmailAddress] = """ & emailStr & """" 'this is the email from person x we are searching for in the 2 folders
' from here on it is currently searching just 1 folder
Set olItems = olFldr.Items.Restrict(filter) 'filter the items
olItems.Sort "[ReceivedTime]", True 'sort by date
If olItems.Count > 0 Then
For i = 1 To olItems.Count
If olItems(i).Class = 43 Then
Set olItemReply = olItems(i).ReplyAll
With olItemReply
.HTMLBody = "<p Dear someone, <br><br></p>" & .HTMLBody
.Display
End With
Exit For
End If
Next
Else
' have code here to make a brand new email already
End If
Set olApp = Nothing
Set olNs = Nothing
Set olFldr = Nothing
Set olArchive = Nothing
Set olCleanUp = Nothing
Set olJoinedFldr = Nothing
Set olItems = Nothing
Set olItemReply = Nothing
Set i = Nothing
Set emailStr = Nothing
Set filter = Nothing
End Sub
You cannot search through two (or more) folders unless you create a Search object using Application.AdvancedSearch. Even then, it is a PITA to work with - the search is asynchronous, and you would need to use events to figure out when the search is completed.
You'd be better off searching one folder at a time and combining the results (if necessary) in your code.
You need to use the AdvancedSearch method of the Application class. The key benefits of using the AdvancedSearch method in Outlook are:
The search is performed in another thread. You don’t need to run another thread manually since the AdvancedSearch method runs it automatically in the background.
Possibility to search for any item types: mail, appointment, calendar, notes etc. in any location, i.e. beyond the scope of a certain folder. The Restrict and Find/FindNext methods can be applied to a particular Items collection (see the Items property of the Folder class in Outlook).
Full support for DASL queries (custom properties can be used for searching too). You can read more about this in the Filtering article in MSDN. To improve the search performance, Instant Search keywords can be used if Instant Search is enabled for the store (see the IsInstantSearchEnabled property of the Store class).
You can stop the search process at any moment using the Stop method of the Search class.
Read more about this method in the Advanced search in Outlook programmatically: C#, VB.NET article.
The code below deletes appointments in a subfolder of the Outlook default calendar. I have commented out the line giving the run-time error 462: "The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable".
Is there a change I could make to this code to solve this error? Thanks for any guidance.
Public Sub DeleteAppt()
Dim olApp As Object 'Outlook.Application
Dim olNS As Object 'Outlook.Namespace
Dim olAptItemFolder As Object 'Outlook.Folder
Dim olAptItem As Object 'Outlook.AppointmentItem
Dim i As Long
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set olNS = olApp.Session
Set olAptItemFolder = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderCalendar).Folders("TestCal")
''''For i = olAptItemFolder.Count To 1 Step -1
Set olAptItem = olAptItemFolder.Items(i)
If olAptItem.Subject Like "***" Then
olAptItem.Delete
End If
Next i
Set olAptItem = Nothing
Set olAptItemFolder = Nothing
Set olApp = Nothing
End Sub
olAptItemFolder has no Count property. olAptItemFolder.Items does. Apart from the issues others noted in comments above, try
For i = olAptItemFolder.Items.Count To 1 Step -1
Edited to add: if you are not setting a reference to something's object lirary, you can't use its enums unless you fully qualify each use. It's generally simpler, easier and quicker to find out the numerical value of the enum and use that instead. Then add a comment on the end of the line to remind yoursef, six months from now, that '9 = olFolderCalendar
i have a very simple small app in mind which will help me save time from alt tabbing from excel to outlook. i want to create a small userform that will have a textbox for a exchange user alias and return the exchange user's full name. now the issue i have here is that the guide in msdn is a little vague for a userform: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff869721.aspx and i'm getting some error messages, some got fixed by activating some references. and the code is quite complicated.
so basically i have 2 textboxes and a button. textbox1 will accept the alias, textbox2 will return the username after clicking the button.
there are several examples but most of them will result in dumping the GAL to an excel file which i don't need.
thanks in advanced
This will give you what you want.
Private Function GetFullName(inAlias As String) As String
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNS As Outlook.Namespace
Dim olAdd As Outlook.AddressEntries
Dim olMem As Outlook.AddressEntry
Dim olLst As Outlook.AddressList
Dim olAlias As String
On Error Resume Next
Set olApp = New Outlook.Application
On Error GoTo 0
If olApp Is Nothing Then
GetFullName = "Source not available"
Exit Function
End If
Set olNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olLst = olNS.GetGlobalAddressList
Set olAdd = olLst.AddressEntries
For Each olMem In olAdd
On Error Resume Next
olAlias = olMem.GetExchangeUser.Alias
On Error GoTo 0
If olAlias = inAlias Then
GetFullName = olMem.GetExchangeUser.Name
Exit For
Else
GetFullName = "Invalid Alias"
End If
Next
Set olApp = Nothing: Set olNS = Nothing: Set olAdd = Nothing
End Function
The draw back is this may take a while if your GAL is quite large.
I'll check if I can dump the list to an array first and then manipulate from there.
Or if there is another way to get to the name via alias using other method.
But for now, try learning from this first.
This is a function, so to get it to your textbox, you can simply:
TextBox2 = GetFullname(TextBox1)
Note:
I intentionally declared all the objects, you need to know what type of object you're working on. Also I used On Error Resume Next because there are AddressEntry without Alias and that gives error. That's the easiest work around I can think of for now.
Requirement:
You need to reference Microsoft Outlook xx.x Object Library.
xx.x vary depending on the Outlook version installed in your machine.
I receive an automated email message (in Outlook) every time a room is reserved in a scheduling system but then have to go over and mirror that reservation in another system (which necessitates checking each reservation for specific information and searching through the inbox). I am trying to determine if there is a way to pull the information from the message section (I have found some code that pulls the date received, and subject line as well as read status, but cannot determine how to pull the message body information that I need)
The code that I am running is courtesy of Jie Jenn:
Sub ListOutlookEmailInfoinExcel()
Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim olTaskFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim olTask As Outlook.TaskItem
Dim olItems As Outlook.Items
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlWB As Excel.Workbook
Dim x As Long
Dim arrHeaders As Variant
Set olNS = GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olTaskFolder = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set olItems = olTaskFolder.Items
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
xlApp.Visible = True
Set xlWB = xlApp.Workbooks.Add
On Error Resume Next
x = 2
arrHeaders = Array("Date Created", "Date Recieved", "Subject", "Unread?")
xlWB.Worksheets(1).Range("A1").Resize(1, UBound(arrHeaders)).Value = ""
Do
With xlWB.Worksheets(1)
If Not (olItems(x).Subjects = "" And olItems(x).CreationTime = "") Then
.Range("A1").Resize(1, UBound(arrHeaders) + 1) = arrHeaders
.Cells(x, 1).Value = olItems(x).CreationTime
.Cells(x, 2).Value = olItems(x).ReceivedTime
.Cells(x, 3).Value = olItems(x).Subject
.Cells(x, 4).Value = olItems(x).UnRead
x = x + 1
End If
End With
Loop Until x >= olItems.Count + 1
Set olNS = Nothing
Set olTaskFolder = Nothing
Set olItems = Nothing
Set xlApp = Nothing
Set xlWB = Nothing
End Sub
With the above code, I get a readout of the Subject line, the date created/received and whether or not it has been read. I am trying to see if I can, in addition, get some of the unique string data within the message itself. The format of the emails that I receive is as follows:
Message-ID: sample info
User: test
Content1: test
Content2: test
Content3: test
Please submit a service request if you are receiving this message in error.
-Notice of NEW Room Request
Sponsored By: My_example#Test.com
Event Type: Meeting
Event Title: Test
Date of Reservation: 2015-12-02
Room: 150
From: 13:00
To: 14:00
The information will vary with each request, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea on how to capture the unique strings that will come through so that I can keep a log of the requests that is much faster than the current manual entry and double-checks?
As requested in follow up, the following code splits the message body into individual lines of information. A couple of notes: I copied your message exactly from your post, then searched for "Notice of NEW Room Request". Needless to say, this string should always start the block of information that you need. If it varies, then we have to account for the type of messages that may come through. Also, you may have to test how your message body breaks up individual lines. When I copied and pasted your message into Excel, each line break was 2 line feeds (Chr(10) in VBA). In some cases, it may be only one line feed. Or it can be a Carriage Return (Chr(13)), or even both.
Without further ado, see the code below and let us know of questions.
Sub SplitBody()
Dim sBody As String
Dim sBodyLines() As String
sBody = Range("A1").Value
sBodyLines() = Split(Mid(sBody, InStr(sBody, "Notice of NEW Room Request"), Len(sBody)), Chr(10) & Chr(10))
For i = LBound(sBodyLines) To UBound(sBodyLines)
MsgBox (sBodyLines(i))
Next i
End Sub
Below is an example connecting to an Outlook session, navigating to the default Inbox, then looping through items and adding unread emails to the spreadsheet. See if you can modify the code to your needs, and post back if specific help is needed.
Sub LinkToOutlook()
Dim olApp As Object
Dim olNS As Object
Dim olFolderInbox As Object
Dim rOutput As Range
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set olNS = olApp.getNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFolderInbox = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(6) 'Gets the default inbox folder
Set rOutput = Sheet1.Range("A1")
For Each itm In olFolderInbox.items
If itm.unread = True Then 'check if it has already been read
rOutput.Value = itm.body
Set rOutput = rOutput.Offset(1)
End If
Next itm
End Sub
Alternatively, you can write code in Outlook directly that looks for new mail arrival, and from there, you can test if it meets your criteria, and if it does, it can write to Excel. Here's a link to get you started. Post back for added help.
Using VBA to read new Outlook Email?
after searching multiple things, and getting errors
How do I upon pressing "f5" in a vba script copy the body of an email into an excel sheet /csv
where every line = a new cell below.
Thanks
Sorry, this is causing me nothing but trouble.
What I have tried so far
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/export-outlook-emails-excel-spreadsheets-41441.html
How to copy Outlook mail message into excel using VBA or Macros
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?415518-RESOLVED-outlook-the-macros-in-this-project-are-disabled
http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=181512
and a few more, last year.
This will work for you. we are basically splitting the email body into an array based on a new line. Notice that this will yield blank cells if you had a blank line in the email body.
Public Sub SplitEmail() ' Ensure reference to Word and Excel Object model is set
Dim rpl As Outlook.MailItem
Dim itm As Object
Set itm = GetCurrentItem()
If Not itm Is Nothing Then
Set rpl = itm.Reply
rpl.BodyFormat = olFormatHTML
'rpl.Display
End If
Dim objDoc As Word.Document
Set objDoc = rpl.GetInspector.WordEditor
Dim txt As String
txt = objDoc.Content.text
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.application")
xlApp.Visible = True
Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
Set wb = xlApp.Workbooks.Add
Dim i As Long
For i = LBound(Split(txt, Chr(13)), 1) To UBound(Split(txt, Chr(13)), 1)
wb.Worksheets(1).Range("A" & i + 1).Value = Split(txt, Chr(13))(i)
Next i
End Sub
Function GetCurrentItem() As Object
Dim objApp As Outlook.Application
Set objApp = Application
On Error Resume Next
Select Case TypeName(objApp.ActiveWindow)
Case "Explorer"
Set GetCurrentItem = objApp.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
Case "Inspector"
Set GetCurrentItem = objApp.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
End Select
GetCurrentItem.UnRead = False
Set objApp = Nothing
End Function
The Outlook object model doesn't recognize lines in the body. You can try to resize any inspector window in Outlook and see how the body lines are changed.
Anyway, you may try to use the Word object model to get the exact lines. Outlook uses Word as an email editor. The WordEditor property of the Inspector class returns an instance of the Document class which represents the message body. You can read more about all possible ways in the Chapter 17: Working with Item Bodies article.
The How to automate Microsoft Excel from Visual Basic article explains how to automate Excel from any external application.