[AccessD] A2K: BIT OT - Shared Outlook Calendar

Darren,

I don't know if this is any help to you, but here goes....

At home (where we are very far from running exchange server), we have
constant issues about what is on the family calendar and who 'should have
known'.  My husband has a habit of putting calendar items in his PDA and
expecting that that is magically enough to inform me and our two teen-age
daughters about his plans.  (He's a paramedic and a teacher, with irregular
hours for both, so there was plenty to be tense about.)

He sincs his PDA with his Outlook calendar, so his calendar, under his
profile, really does have all the information we are supposed to know.

I poked around a bit in Outlook, and found that I could point each of our
profiles at his .pst file as well.  Now when I open Outlook at home, I can
see my calendar and calendars in personal folders (his), rather like
Exchange Server shows me my calendar and calendars in public folders in the
office.

File-->Datafile management-->Add, then browse for the .pst you want everyone
to see.

I did have to do this for each profile, and you might have to tinker with
sharing, too.

Good luck!

Liz





-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darren DICK
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:45 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K: BIT OT - Shared Outlook Calendar

Thanks Doug
Will keep you posted
But it seems we have to be running our email off Exchange Server for this to
occur the way I want

We will be there, one day, but we ain't yet
So....We wait and poke around at the edges.

See ya

Darren
 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Murphy
Sent: Friday, 25 February 2005 11:35 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K: BIT OT - Shared Outlook Calendar

Darren,

I don't know what your objective is here, but we are currently evaluating a
product for sharing outlook contacts, calendars, and tasks between various
Outlook installations on a network. Take a look at
http://www.officecalendar.com/index.asp.  The literature looks good. We are
putting the eval copy on a couple of machines to try it out. For the price
it might beat the cost of development.  If nothing else the web site will
give you some insite into how these folks accomplished this task. They are
using .NET as the backbone to link up the outlook installations.

If you go the Access route I'd be interested in learning how you do it.

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darren DICK
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:20 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] A2K: BIT OT - Shared Outlook Calendar


Hello all
I have some code working well that creates Outlook Calendar Items from
bookings in an Access dB

So Far so good, but the calendar items created by Machine A are only stored
on, and visible to, Machine A What I want is - for my app to create calendar
items that everyone can see

So I guess my Q is more Outlook related than Access.

How do I set up Outlook so that People see only a 'group' calendar?

So an appointment made using my app on Machine A can be seen by Every other
machine, not just Machine A?

Many thanks in advance

Darren


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