Released (beta) Office plugin for outlook communication

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Today we updated our website and shop to facilitate our all new (but already announced) Office plugin.

With the office plugin you will have the ability to add, retreive and/or synchronize your (crm) solution or module with the various folders and items of Microsoft Outlook.

MS Outlook is one of the most widespread personal information managers in the world of Microsoft Windows. It can be found on most desktops of our (potential) customers.

Available are:

  • Appointments
  • Contacts
  • eMail
  • Meetings
  • Notes
  • Tasks
  • Posts

It is also possible to send and retreive email including attachments!.
The plugin won’t replace the built in functionality of your solution but can be used to make your solution work together with MS Outlook.

Features you can offer to the end user are:

  • Send mail via MS Outlook to overcome the issue of sending cc’s from Servoy to the users mail address.
  • Synchronization of contacts with handhelds devices now possible through MS Outlook.
  • Create and manage appointments direct in Outlook
  • Create and manage meetings direct in Outlook
  • Create and manage task direct in Outlook

All our plugins can be downloaded via the download buttons on our shop via Servoy Components – Plugins, Beans, Web Components, Angular Services & Servoy Developer Consulting. A trial license can be obtained from our shop Servoy Components – Plugins, Beans, Web Components, Angular Services & Servoy Developer Consulting.

The plugin has a lot of sample code in the main ‘node’ and a sample solution is included in our installer. The companies and contact tables in the sample are based on the ‘standard’ crm solution.

Have fun and go ‘play’ with it,

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Marcel,

I have a question about the plugin.

Is it possible to retreive an email from Outlook to save into Servoy, when one has not previously stored the ID of the email from Outlook. If so, how does one find the ID in order to import a particular email from Outlook into Servoy?

Thanks

MerMer

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Hi MerMer,

You can search for an email in Servoy by Subject, datetime, sender or whatever you want.
The only thing you have to take into account is the fact that you can not search on a partial string.

After searching or (when a folder is not too large) retrieving the complete folder contents you can loop through the folder and get the id of the email you found/selected.

Hope this helps.

BTW when you download the plugin you will also have a sample solution showing you how to do this…

I will release a new version of the plugin somewhere tomorrow or the day after!