Darren DICK
d.dick at uws.edu.au
Sun Feb 27 16:18:17 CST 2005
Marty - thanks for the cool links Excellent See ya DD -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly Sent: Saturday, 26 February 2005 6:41 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2K: BIT OT - Shared Outlook Calendar Have look here Maintaining a Group Calendar in Outlook http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/scheduleall.htm http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/netfolders.htm Sharing Microsoft Outlook Calendar and Contacts http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm or just search site on share calendar or this sister site http://www.outlookcode.com/d/ Liz Doering wrote: >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 >File-->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 > > >-- >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com