Use VBA to insert hyperlink in Task Body
 

Hello -
In Outlook I can drag an Outlook folder to a task, which results in a
hyperlink to the folder being inserted in the body of the task. How can I do
this programmatically in VBA (create the hyperlink to an Outlook folder)?

I have found articles about how to do this in an e-mail message and in
Access, but Outlook Task lacks the elements those have to make this work.

Assume that I've already created the task and the folder (the folder holds
mail and post items) programmatically and know their names; and I know the
path for the folder. The folder will hold e-mail and post items pertaining
to the task, and I want a link to the folder in the task so that when the
task is displayed, the user can immediately access the relevant email/post
folder.

All help greatly appreciated.

thanks
George Rickerson

Use VBA to insert hyperlink in Task Body
 

The link looks like this:

outlook://Personal folder/Outbox

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:26:01 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hello -
In Outlook I can drag an Outlook folder to a task, which results in a
hyperlink to the folder being inserted in the body of the task. How can I
do
this programmatically in VBA (create the hyperlink to an Outlook folder)?

I have found articles about how to do this in an e-mail message and in
Access, but Outlook Task lacks the elements those have to make this work.

Assume that I've already created the task and the folder (the folder
holds
mail and post items) programmatically and know their names; and I know the
path for the folder. The folder will hold e-mail and post items
pertaining
to the task, and I want a link to the folder in the task so that when the
task is displayed, the user can immediately access the relevant email/post
folder.

All help greatly appreciated.

thanks
George Rickerson

Use VBA to insert hyperlink in Task Body
 

Hi, Michael -
Yes, the link looks like that, but the way it looks is not the problem.
If I set .body equal to "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/a test
task", all I get in the task is that text string. It is not a hyperlink that
I can click on to open that folder.

I need for the end result to be the same as it is when, in the Outlook UI,
I click and drag a folder to a task. If you do that, you will see that
Outlook puts a hyperlink in the body of the task that can be used to open the
folder; the hyperlink can also be edited using the hyperlink dialog box.
However, I am unable to find any way to mimic this behavior in a VB program.

I learned somewhere while searching for a solution that a hyperlink is 3
text strings separated by the "#" character: the display string, the address
string and the subaddress string. So I constructed such a string (basically
it is the two text strings you see if you open the hyperlink dialog box) and
set .body equal to it; but all I got was the text string - the whole thing,
all 3 parts, with the delimiters; Outlook did not recognize it or treat it as
a hyperlink.

I learned that one can get a hyperlink into an e-mail message using the
htmlbody property and constructing a html text string; the htmlbody is not
available for Tasks. One MS MVP on some forum suggested, in answer to
another person's question, using the EntryID of the folder; all I got was a
really ugly text string in the Task body consisting of the EntryID.

Hope this additional information helps me find someone who knows the answer.

thanksl
george.

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



The link looks like this:

outlook://Personal folder/Outbox

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:26:01 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hello -
In Outlook I can drag an Outlook folder to a task, which results in a
hyperlink to the folder being inserted in the body of the task. How can I
do
this programmatically in VBA (create the hyperlink to an Outlook folder)?

I have found articles about how to do this in an e-mail message and in
Access, but Outlook Task lacks the elements those have to make this work.

Assume that I've already created the task and the folder (the folder
holds
mail and post items) programmatically and know their names; and I know the
path for the folder. The folder will hold e-mail and post items
pertaining
to the task, and I want a link to the folder in the task so that when the
task is displayed, the user can immediately access the relevant email/post
folder.

All help greatly appreciated.

thanks
George Rickerson

Use VBA to insert hyperlink in Task Body
 

Michael - if you do a search for "email hyperlink" and read the thread dated
6/28/07 you'll see successful instructions for programmatically putting a
hyperlink in the body of an e-mail using htmlbody. I basically want to do
the same think in the body of a Task, but htmlbody isn't available for tasks.
I have tried the method described in the 6/28/07 thread (except for the
htmlbody part of course) and it doesn't work.

thanks
George.

"showme1946" wrote:

Hi, Michael -
Yes, the link looks like that, but the way it looks is not the problem.
If I set .body equal to "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/a test
task", all I get in the task is that text string. It is not a hyperlink that
I can click on to open that folder.

I need for the end result to be the same as it is when, in the Outlook UI,
I click and drag a folder to a task. If you do that, you will see that
Outlook puts a hyperlink in the body of the task that can be used to open the
folder; the hyperlink can also be edited using the hyperlink dialog box.
However, I am unable to find any way to mimic this behavior in a VB program.

I learned somewhere while searching for a solution that a hyperlink is 3
text strings separated by the "#" character: the display string, the address
string and the subaddress string. So I constructed such a string (basically
it is the two text strings you see if you open the hyperlink dialog box) and
set .body equal to it; but all I got was the text string - the whole thing,
all 3 parts, with the delimiters; Outlook did not recognize it or treat it as
a hyperlink.

I learned that one can get a hyperlink into an e-mail message using the
htmlbody property and constructing a html text string; the htmlbody is not
available for Tasks. One MS MVP on some forum suggested, in answer to
another person's question, using the EntryID of the folder; all I got was a
really ugly text string in the Task body consisting of the EntryID.

Hope this additional information helps me find someone who knows the answer.

thanksl
george.

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



The link looks like this:

outlook://Personal folder/Outbox

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:26:01 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hello -
In Outlook I can drag an Outlook folder to a task, which results in a
hyperlink to the folder being inserted in the body of the task. How can I
do
this programmatically in VBA (create the hyperlink to an Outlook folder)?

I have found articles about how to do this in an e-mail message and in
Access, but Outlook Task lacks the elements those have to make this work.

Assume that I've already created the task and the folder (the folder
holds
mail and post items) programmatically and know their names; and I know the
path for the folder. The folder will hold e-mail and post items
pertaining
to the task, and I want a link to the folder in the task so that when the
task is displayed, the user can immediately access the relevant email/post
folder.

All help greatly appreciated.

thanks
George Rickerson

Use VBA to insert hyperlink in Task Body
 

Works great he

taskitem.body="outlook://persönliche ordner/postausgang"
taskitem.subject="test"
taskitem.save

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:34:02 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hi, Michael -
Yes, the link looks like that, but the way it looks is not the problem.
If I set .body equal to "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/a
test
task", all I get in the task is that text string. It is not a hyperlink
that
I can click on to open that folder.

I need for the end result to be the same as it is when, in the Outlook
UI,
I click and drag a folder to a task. If you do that, you will see that
Outlook puts a hyperlink in the body of the task that can be used to open
the
folder; the hyperlink can also be edited using the hyperlink dialog box.
However, I am unable to find any way to mimic this behavior in a VB
program.

I learned somewhere while searching for a solution that a hyperlink is 3
text strings separated by the "#" character: the display string, the
address
string and the subaddress string. So I constructed such a string
(basically
it is the two text strings you see if you open the hyperlink dialog box)
and
set .body equal to it; but all I got was the text string - the whole
thing,
all 3 parts, with the delimiters; Outlook did not recognize it or treat it
as
a hyperlink.

I learned that one can get a hyperlink into an e-mail message using the
htmlbody property and constructing a html text string; the htmlbody is not
available for Tasks. One MS MVP on some forum suggested, in answer to
another person's question, using the EntryID of the folder; all I got was
a
really ugly text string in the Task body consisting of the EntryID.

Hope this additional information helps me find someone who knows the
answer.

thanksl
george.

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



The link looks like this:

outlook://Personal folder/Outbox

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:

http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:26:01 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hello -
In Outlook I can drag an Outlook folder to a task, which results in a
hyperlink to the folder being inserted in the body of the task. How can
I
do
this programmatically in VBA (create the hyperlink to an Outlook
folder)?

I have found articles about how to do this in an e-mail message and in
Access, but Outlook Task lacks the elements those have to make this
work.

Assume that I've already created the task and the folder (the folder
holds
mail and post items) programmatically and know their names; and I know
the
path for the folder. The folder will hold e-mail and post items
pertaining
to the task, and I want a link to the folder in the task so that when
the
task is displayed, the user can immediately access the relevant
email/post
folder.

All help greatly appreciated.

thanks
George Rickerson

Use VBA to insert hyperlink in Task Body
 

Hmmm, perhaps I should move to your location. When I execute this code:
Set NewTask = CreateItem(olTaskItem)
With NewTask
.Subject = TaskSubj
.DueDate = TaskDue
.Body = "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/Testfolder"
.Save
End With
NewTask.ShowCategoriesDialog
NewTask.Display

The result in the body of NewTask is a text string (including the angle
brackets) that is not a hyperlink. So, when you say "works great here" are
you saying than when you execute your code you have a hyperlink in your task?

thanks
George.


"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



Works great he

taskitem.body="outlook://persönliche ordner/postausgang"
taskitem.subject="test"
taskitem.save

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:34:02 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hi, Michael -
Yes, the link looks like that, but the way it looks is not the problem.
If I set .body equal to "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/a
test
task", all I get in the task is that text string. It is not a hyperlink
that
I can click on to open that folder.

I need for the end result to be the same as it is when, in the Outlook
UI,
I click and drag a folder to a task. If you do that, you will see that
Outlook puts a hyperlink in the body of the task that can be used to open
the
folder; the hyperlink can also be edited using the hyperlink dialog box.
However, I am unable to find any way to mimic this behavior in a VB
program.

I learned somewhere while searching for a solution that a hyperlink is 3
text strings separated by the "#" character: the display string, the
address
string and the subaddress string. So I constructed such a string
(basically
it is the two text strings you see if you open the hyperlink dialog box)
and
set .body equal to it; but all I got was the text string - the whole
thing,
all 3 parts, with the delimiters; Outlook did not recognize it or treat it
as
a hyperlink.

I learned that one can get a hyperlink into an e-mail message using the
htmlbody property and constructing a html text string; the htmlbody is not
available for Tasks. One MS MVP on some forum suggested, in answer to
another person's question, using the EntryID of the folder; all I got was
a
really ugly text string in the Task body consisting of the EntryID.

Hope this additional information helps me find someone who knows the
answer.

thanksl
george.

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



The link looks like this:

outlook://Personal folder/Outbox

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:

http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:26:01 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hello -
In Outlook I can drag an Outlook folder to a task, which results in a
hyperlink to the folder being inserted in the body of the task. How can
I
do
this programmatically in VBA (create the hyperlink to an Outlook
folder)?

I have found articles about how to do this in an e-mail message and in
Access, but Outlook Task lacks the elements those have to make this
work.

Assume that I've already created the task and the folder (the folder
holds
mail and post items) programmatically and know their names; and I know
the
path for the folder. The folder will hold e-mail and post items
pertaining
to the task, and I want a link to the folder in the task so that when
the
task is displayed, the user can immediately access the relevant
email/post
folder.

All help greatly appreciated.

thanks
George Rickerson

Use VBA to insert hyperlink in Task Body
 

I tested with OL 03. That works.

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:52:03 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hmmm, perhaps I should move to your location. When I execute this code:
Set NewTask = CreateItem(olTaskItem)
With NewTask
.Subject = TaskSubj
.DueDate = TaskDue
.Body = "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/Testfolder"
.Save
End With
NewTask.ShowCategoriesDialog
NewTask.Display

The result in the body of NewTask is a text string (including the angle
brackets) that is not a hyperlink. So, when you say "works great here"
are
you saying than when you execute your code you have a hyperlink in your
task?

thanks
George.


"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



Works great he

taskitem.body="outlook://persönliche ordner/postausgang"
taskitem.subject="test"
taskitem.save

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:

http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:34:02 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hi, Michael -
Yes, the link looks like that, but the way it looks is not the
problem.
If I set .body equal to "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/a
test
task", all I get in the task is that text string. It is not a hyperlink
that
I can click on to open that folder.

I need for the end result to be the same as it is when, in the Outlook
UI,
I click and drag a folder to a task. If you do that, you will see that
Outlook puts a hyperlink in the body of the task that can be used to
open
the
folder; the hyperlink can also be edited using the hyperlink dialog box.
However, I am unable to find any way to mimic this behavior in a VB
program.

I learned somewhere while searching for a solution that a hyperlink is
3
text strings separated by the "#" character: the display string, the
address
string and the subaddress string. So I constructed such a string
(basically
it is the two text strings you see if you open the hyperlink dialog box)
and
set .body equal to it; but all I got was the text string - the whole
thing,
all 3 parts, with the delimiters; Outlook did not recognize it or treat
it
as
a hyperlink.

I learned that one can get a hyperlink into an e-mail message using
the
htmlbody property and constructing a html text string; the htmlbody is
not
available for Tasks. One MS MVP on some forum suggested, in answer to
another person's question, using the EntryID of the folder; all I got
was
a
really ugly text string in the Task body consisting of the EntryID.

Hope this additional information helps me find someone who knows the
answer.

thanksl
george.

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



The link looks like this:

outlook://Personal folder/Outbox

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:


http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:26:01 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hello -
In Outlook I can drag an Outlook folder to a task, which results in
a
hyperlink to the folder being inserted in the body of the task. How
can
I
do
this programmatically in VBA (create the hyperlink to an Outlook
folder)?

I have found articles about how to do this in an e-mail message and
in
Access, but Outlook Task lacks the elements those have to make this
work.

Assume that I've already created the task and the folder (the folder
holds
mail and post items) programmatically and know their names; and I know
the
path for the folder. The folder will hold e-mail and post items
pertaining
to the task, and I want a link to the folder in the task so that when
the
task is displayed, the user can immediately access the relevant
email/post
folder.

All help greatly appreciated.

thanks
George Rickerson

Use VBA to insert hyperlink in Task Body
 

I see. Pardon me for not noting earlier that I am using OL2007. I need a
way to accomplish this in OL07.

thanks
George.

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:


I tested with OL 03. That works.

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:52:03 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hmmm, perhaps I should move to your location. When I execute this code:
Set NewTask = CreateItem(olTaskItem)
With NewTask
.Subject = TaskSubj
.DueDate = TaskDue
.Body = "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/Testfolder"
.Save
End With
NewTask.ShowCategoriesDialog
NewTask.Display

The result in the body of NewTask is a text string (including the angle
brackets) that is not a hyperlink. So, when you say "works great here"
are
you saying than when you execute your code you have a hyperlink in your
task?

thanks
George.


"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



Works great he

taskitem.body="outlook://persönliche ordner/postausgang"
taskitem.subject="test"
taskitem.save

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:

http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:34:02 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hi, Michael -
Yes, the link looks like that, but the way it looks is not the
problem.
If I set .body equal to "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/a
test
task", all I get in the task is that text string. It is not a hyperlink
that
I can click on to open that folder.

I need for the end result to be the same as it is when, in the Outlook
UI,
I click and drag a folder to a task. If you do that, you will see that
Outlook puts a hyperlink in the body of the task that can be used to
open
the
folder; the hyperlink can also be edited using the hyperlink dialog box.
However, I am unable to find any way to mimic this behavior in a VB
program.

I learned somewhere while searching for a solution that a hyperlink is
3
text strings separated by the "#" character: the display string, the
address
string and the subaddress string. So I constructed such a string
(basically
it is the two text strings you see if you open the hyperlink dialog box)
and
set .body equal to it; but all I got was the text string - the whole
thing,
all 3 parts, with the delimiters; Outlook did not recognize it or treat
it
as
a hyperlink.

I learned that one can get a hyperlink into an e-mail message using
the
htmlbody property and constructing a html text string; the htmlbody is
not
available for Tasks. One MS MVP on some forum suggested, in answer to
another person's question, using the EntryID of the folder; all I got
was
a
really ugly text string in the Task body consisting of the EntryID.

Hope this additional information helps me find someone who knows the
answer.

thanksl
george.

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



The link looks like this:

outlook://Personal folder/Outbox

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:


http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:26:01 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hello -
In Outlook I can drag an Outlook folder to a task, which results in
a
hyperlink to the folder being inserted in the body of the task. How
can
I
do
this programmatically in VBA (create the hyperlink to an Outlook
folder)?

I have found articles about how to do this in an e-mail message and
in
Access, but Outlook Task lacks the elements those have to make this
work.

Assume that I've already created the task and the folder (the folder
holds
mail and post items) programmatically and know their names; and I know
the
path for the folder. The folder will hold e-mail and post items
pertaining
to the task, and I want a link to the folder in the task so that when
the
task is displayed, the user can immediately access the relevant
email/post
folder.

All help greatly appreciated.

thanks
George Rickerson

Use VBA to insert hyperlink in Task Body
 

Sorry, I don' t know a solution for that.

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:38:02 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

I see. Pardon me for not noting earlier that I am using OL2007. I need a
way to accomplish this in OL07.

thanks
George.

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:


I tested with OL 03. That works.

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:

http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:52:03 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hmmm, perhaps I should move to your location. When I execute this code:
Set NewTask = CreateItem(olTaskItem)
With NewTask
.Subject = TaskSubj
.DueDate = TaskDue
.Body = "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson,
George/Tasks/Testfolder"
.Save
End With
NewTask.ShowCategoriesDialog
NewTask.Display

The result in the body of NewTask is a text string (including the angle
brackets) that is not a hyperlink. So, when you say "works great here"
are
you saying than when you execute your code you have a hyperlink in your
task?

thanks
George.


"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



Works great he

taskitem.body="outlook://persönliche ordner/postausgang"
taskitem.subject="test"
taskitem.save

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:


http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:34:02 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hi, Michael -
Yes, the link looks like that, but the way it looks is not the
problem.
If I set .body equal to "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/a
test
task", all I get in the task is that text string. It is not a
hyperlink
that
I can click on to open that folder.

I need for the end result to be the same as it is when, in the
Outlook
UI,
I click and drag a folder to a task. If you do that, you will see
that
Outlook puts a hyperlink in the body of the task that can be used to
open
the
folder; the hyperlink can also be edited using the hyperlink dialog
box.
However, I am unable to find any way to mimic this behavior in a VB
program.

I learned somewhere while searching for a solution that a hyperlink
is
3
text strings separated by the "#" character: the display string, the
address
string and the subaddress string. So I constructed such a string
(basically
it is the two text strings you see if you open the hyperlink dialog
box)
and
set .body equal to it; but all I got was the text string - the whole
thing,
all 3 parts, with the delimiters; Outlook did not recognize it or
treat
it
as
a hyperlink.

I learned that one can get a hyperlink into an e-mail message using
the
htmlbody property and constructing a html text string; the htmlbody is
not
available for Tasks. One MS MVP on some forum suggested, in answer to
another person's question, using the EntryID of the folder; all I got
was
a
really ugly text string in the Task body consisting of the EntryID.

Hope this additional information helps me find someone who knows the
answer.

thanksl
george.

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:



The link looks like this:

outlook://Personal folder/Outbox

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:



http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:26:01 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hello -
In Outlook I can drag an Outlook folder to a task, which results
in
a
hyperlink to the folder being inserted in the body of the task. How
can
I
do
this programmatically in VBA (create the hyperlink to an Outlook
folder)?

I have found articles about how to do this in an e-mail message
and
in
Access, but Outlook Task lacks the elements those have to make this
work.

Assume that I've already created the task and the folder (the
folder
holds
mail and post items) programmatically and know their names; and I
know
the
path for the folder. The folder will hold e-mail and post items
pertaining
to the task, and I want a link to the folder in the task so that
when
the
task is displayed, the user can immediately access the relevant
email/post
folder.

All help greatly appreciated.

thanks
George Rickerson

Use VBA to insert hyperlink in Task Body
 

Outlook 2007 uses Word as the email editor for all items. Therefore, you can use the Document.Hyperlinks.Add method from the Word object model to insert a link in the body of a task, something along these lines:

strLink = Replace("outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/Testfolder", " ", "%20")
strLinkText = "George's mailbox"
Set objInsp = NewTask.GetInspector
Set objDoc = objInsp.WordEditor
Set objSel - objDoc.Windows(1).Selection
objDoc.Hyperlinks.Add objSel.Range, strLink, _
"", "", strLinkText, ""

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"showme1946" wrote in message ...
Pardon me for not noting earlier that I am using OL2007. I need a
way to accomplish this in OL07.

Am Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:52:03 -0700 schrieb showme1946:

Hmmm, perhaps I should move to your location. When I execute this code:
Set NewTask = CreateItem(olTaskItem)
With NewTask
.Subject = TaskSubj
.DueDate = TaskDue
.Body = "outlook://Mailbox - Rickerson, George/Tasks/Testfolder"
.Save
End With
NewTask.ShowCategoriesDialog
NewTask.Display

The result in the body of NewTask is a text string (including the angle
brackets) that is not a hyperlink.