Darren D
darren at activebilling.com.au
Tue Jan 29 22:00:12 CST 2008
Thanks to all who replied Mmm looks like it may be tricky - I will gratefully try Dan's method and see how I go Darren ----------------- T: 1300 301 731 -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Dan Waters Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 1:50 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003: Dragging and Dropping from outlook Hi Darren, In my apps I give users the ability to select from a list of emails from a folder that they select. They can then choose to save those emails in .msg format as an 'attached' file to a specific record. There is a lot of code to make this work - it's behind two forms. I can send those off-line if you'd like. Dan -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darren D Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:15 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] A2003: Dragging and Dropping from outlook Hi all >From MS Outlook (Yes it has to be Outlook) I can drag an item from say.My Inbox - to the desktop (or any folder really) and I get to see a *.msg item I can double click this dot msg item and can then view it in MS Outlook - cool Anyone know of a control or OCX etc that I can use in MS Access where I do the same thing - Drag a Microsoft Outlook item and have it visible in my access app If not that then some kind of pointer with the Subject or such where a double click will open the item's OutlookID property I have tried an RTF OCX (RTF2.ocx that Lebans uses in his RTF demo) I have used in other apps but when I drag inbox items to it I get some thing like. >From Subject Received Size Dave SMITH Auto Upload and Download Script 20/11/2007 1 MB If this carried with it some sort of pointer - Even this would be enough then I could double click it Clutching at straws here Many thanks in advance DD Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.8/1236 - Release Date: 21/01/2008 8:23 PM -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.8/1236 - Release Date: 21/01/2008 8:23 PM Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.8/1236 - Release Date: 21/01/2008 8:23 PM