This code was apparently written to update Outlook objects on the
server. Anything CF does is on the server-side of things -- to update a
client's Outlook database on the client machine, you will most likely
need some activex or vbscript action.
ColdFusion wont do this for you.
However if there is an exchange server running or some central store of
outlook .pst files which are connected to over the network, then you
might be able to mess around with running CF code to update those files.
But yeah the reason you got the error you did is that Outlook isn't
installed on the server you are running CF on, therefore the "class
string" for it is unrecognized.
--brendan avery
-----Original Message-----
From: Ciliotta, Mario [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 6:35 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Outlook and CF
Hi,
I was wondering if some who is familiar with using Outlook along with CF
could
take a look at this code. I have to try to create a task in Outlook via
a cf
page and I found this code on CFCOMET but I get an error on the page.
Do I
need to have Outlook installed on my CF server or can I connect to the
users
Outlook running on their desktop. I have heard that this can be done in
VBScript but I have not seen any examples.
Here is the code that I got from CFCOMET:
CFTRY>
<!--- If it exists, connect to it --->
<CFOBJECT
ACTION=""
CLASS="Outlook.Application"
NAME="objOutlook"
TYPE="COM">
<CFCATCH>
<!--- The object doesn't exist, so create it --->
<CFOBJECT
ACTION=""
CLASS="Outlook.Application"
NAME="objOutlook"
TYPE="COM">
</CFCATCH>
</CFTRY>
<CFSCRIPT>
/* Get the object name space - currently MAPI is the only option */
objNameSpace = objOutlook.getNameSpace("MAPI");
/* If you're on Windows NT or 2000, use the next line */
objNameSpace.Logon("", "", False, False);
/* Set the folder to Inbox which is '6' */
objFolder = objNameSpace.getDefaultFolder(6);
/* Return the 'Items' collection */
objAllMessages = objFolder.Items;
/* Sort the messages by date descending */
objAllMessages.Sort("[ReceivedTime]", 1);
</CFSCRIPT>
<CFOUTPUT>
You have a total of #objAllMessages.Count# messages,
#objFolder.UnreadItemCount# are unread:<P>
<TABLE CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%"
BGCOLOR="gray">
<TR BGCOLOR="ffffff">
<TD><B>Sender</B></TD>
<TD><B>Date</B></TD>
<TD><B>Size</B></TD>
<TD><B>Subject</B></TD>
</TR>
<!--- Loop through the 'Messages' collection --->
<CFLOOP COLLECTION="#objAllMessages#" ITEM="this">
<TR BGCOLOR="ffffff">
<TD>#this.SenderName#</TD>
<TD>#DateFormat(this.ReceivedTime, "ddd mm/dd")#</TD>
<TD>#iif(this.size LT 1000, DE("#this.size#b"),
DE("#Round(this.Size/1000)#k"))#</TD>
<TD><A HREF=""> #iif(this.UnRead, DE("<B>#this.Subject#</B>"),
DE("#this.Subject#"))#
</A>
</TD>
</TR>
</CFLOOP>
</TABLE>
</CFOUTPUT>
And this is the error message that I receive:
Error trying to create object specified in the tag.
COM error 0x800401F3. Invalid class string
The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier
of
(CFOBJECT), occupying document position (10:5) to (14:19) in the
template file
G:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mario\test_outlook.cfm.
Date/Time: 02/27/04 19:29:16
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0)
If anyone has any ideas on how to do this or if it is possible to do
this with
Java instead. I tried this code on my CF4.5 dev box and my CF5.0 dev
box but
not on my MX dev yet.
Thanks
Mario
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