How to access an appointment item linked to BCM Contact's communication history using Outlook Object Model programmatically?

One of my customer is developing application based on Business Contact Manager(BCM) and would like to access an Appointment item linked to BCM contact’s communication history folder using Outlook Object Model(OOM) ?

We can refer to the linked item from the Communication History folder(hidden) of BCM as the linked item are saved as Journal Item in it. See how we can added a file as linked item to the BCM contact or other item @ Files.

Here is the VBA sample code snippet to get the reference to an an Appointment item linked to BCM contact’s communication history folder using Outlook Object Model(OOM) usingParent Entity EntryID Property

NOTE: Following programming examples is for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. This sample code assumes that you are familiar with the programming language being demonstrated and the tools used to create and debug procedures. This sample code is provided for the purpose of illustration only and is not intended to be used in a production environment.

 Public Sub OutlookExtractMeetingItem()

         Dim ol As Outlook.Application

         Dim olns As Outlook.NameSpace

         Dim bcmRootFolder As Outlook.Folder

         Dim olFolders As Outlook.Folders

         Dim bcmContactsFldr As Outlook.Folder

         Dim allContacts As Outlook.MAPIFolder 'Used for Personal default folder

         Dim allContacts1 As Outlook.Items 'Used for Business Contact folder

         Dim contact As Outlook.ContactItem

         Dim contacts As Outlook.Items

         Dim meetingItem As Outlook.meetingItem

         Dim strParentID As String

         Dim bcmHistoryFolder As Outlook.Folder

         Dim oAppas As Outlook.JournalItem

         Dim oItems As Outlook.Items

         Dim oItem As Object

        Set ol = Application

        Set olns = ol.GetNamespace("MAPI")

        Set olFolders = olns.Session.Folders

        Set bcmRootFolder = olFolders("Business Contact Manager")

        'set to the default Contacts in the BCM folder

        Set bcmContactsFldr = bcmRootFolder.Folders("Business Contacts") 

         ' Set objAllContacts equal to the collection of all contacts.

         Set allContacts1 = bcmContactsFldr.Items

         allContacts1.Sort ("CompanyName")

         Set bcmHistoryFolder = bcmRootFolder.Folders("Communication History")

         Set oItems = bcmHistoryFolder.Items

 'Loop through all contact and match "Parent Entity EntryID" to Communication History folder items

         For Each contact In allContacts1

                 strParentID = contact.EntryID

                 For Each oItem In oItems

                    Set oAppas = oItem

                     If strParentID = oAppas.ItemProperties("Parent Entity EntryID") Then

                         'MsgBox (oAppas.ItemProperties("Parent Entity EntryID").Value)

      'We get reference to the appointment object we can work with appointment object once matched 

                         oAppas.Display

                     End If

                 Next

         Next

 End Sub

Hope this helps!!!

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 28, 2011
  That is a nice example. I am looking to export the BCM contacts via VBS, please let me know if you have done so, or any reference to the BCM object.