HOWTO: Extract Appointment Information from Schedule Plus 7.0

• Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SUMMARY

The OLE Scheduling Library exposes an object model for Microsoft Schedule Plus 7.0 that can be manipulated by the VBA language. This object model allows programmers to gain access to appointment information. This article provides a code sample of how to extract appointment information between two given dates from Schedule Plus.

MORE INFORMATION

1. Start a new Standard EXE project. Form1 is added by default.

2. Place a CommandButton on Form1.

3. Add the following code to the General Declarations section of Form1:

         Option Explicit
   

         Private Sub Command1_Click()
            GetAppointments "06/03/96", "08/03/96" 'dd/mm/yy format
         End Sub
   
         Sub GetAppointments(sStartdate As String, sEndDate As String)
            Dim objSchdPlus As Object
            Dim gobjappt As Object
            Dim objappt As Object
            Dim objitem As Object
            Dim obatt As Object
            Screen.MousePointer = vbHourglass
            Set objSchdPlus = CreateObject("SchedulePlus.Application")
            objSchdPlus.Logon
            Set gobjappt = objSchdPlus.ScheduleSelected
            Print objSchdPlus.UserName
            Set objappt = gobjappt.singleappointments
            Set objitem = objappt.Item()
            Print objappt.Rows
            While Not objappt.IsEndOfTable
               Set objitem = objappt.Item()
               If CDate(objitem.start) >= _
                  CDate(Format$(sStartdate, "dd/mm/yy") & " 00:00:00") And _
                  CDate(objitem.end) _
                  <= CDate(Format$(sEndDate, "dd/mm/yy") & " 23:59:59") Then
                  Print "Starts " & objitem.start & "---" & "Ends ";
                  Print objitem.end
                  Print "Appointment := " & objitem.Text
               End If
               objappt.Skip
            Wend
            Screen.MousePointer = vbArrow
            MsgBox "Done"
         End Sub
   
   

4. Press the F5 key to run the project. When you click on the button, the appointments that fall into the date range specified will be printed on the form.

REFERENCES

OLE Scheduling is documented in the Microsoft Schedule+ Programmer's Guide found under Microsoft Exchange Server in the BackOffice SDK on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN).

The Mastering Series for Exchange Development, also available from Microsoft, has extensive Visual Basic code samples and explanations relating to OLE Scheduling.

Keywords          : vb5all vb5howto VBKBCtrl VBKBInt VBKBOLE VBKBStd vbwin GnrlVb kbprg
Technology        : kbole kbvba
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto