Comments on: Use VBA To Reset Task Due Dates in Outlook

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:33:03 +0000

I am trying to get the Status property of an Outlook task using VBA but whenever I try to reference it I get the error object doesn’t support this property or method.
Set taskItems = itTasks.Items


    For Each task In taskItems

        count = count + 1
        statusText = ""

        With task

            creationTime = .creationTime . Works

            subject = .subject  ' Works

            statusText = .Status ' Does not work

        End With

I can get the subject and the creationTime but how do I get the status? I can't seem to get it in the same manner. I am using Microsoft Outlook 2003, (the mail box is on an Exchange Server 2007 server , same DOMAIN same LAN)

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:43:21 +0000

I want to use a vba script to change due date for selected tasks to a certain date, can someone tell me how to write that VBA? Thanks.

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:46:23 +0000

hey got it !

hadn’t realised this, but task.save was out-commented !
I would have imagined that setting task.Duedate was enough, but this is VBA isn’t

thanks

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:42:25 +0000

Thanks for responding -
it’s the default folder actually I’m using.
I tried the ns.PickFolder() method, but same result – code runs but nothing happens…

Don’t see it – so I’m stuck here basically.
Would be lovely if this works

By: Ty

Ty — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:14:58 +0000

It is mapped to the default folder. If you want to check a different folder you need to grab a reference to it using the Namespace object (ns in the code).

Maybe call the PickFolder method and ask the user which folder to work against. Something like:

Set fld = ns.PickFolder()

I use the today() function because I am an old VBA developer and I like the today() function. It works.

By: Danny Puype

Danny Puype — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:06:20 +0000

This is nice -
however I tried it out, but can’t get it to work in my Outlook 2007 – …
tried a bit of everything, but don’t see it – dommage

It seems the macro rolls through, but there’s no records in the recordset…
wonder whether it could be linked to the default folder?
I don’t get an error message, just goes through it doing nothing.
Tried to fiddle around with different settings for rest var with different fields too, but no luck -

Also I wondered why you use the today() function, shouldn’t that be date()?

Any suggestions much welcomed of course
rgds

By: Ty

Ty — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:54:06 +0000

it’s another filter that isn’t used in this code sample. It can be used in Items.Restrict(…) . I believe it will restrict the items collection to the same filter (<> ‘Completed’). The difference is the unused filter string references the MAPI folder id and is a bit of a pain to figure out.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:26:09 +0000

What was the purpose of creating and populating the filterSQL string? It doesn’t appear to get used – Am I missing something?

By: Korayem

Korayem — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:39:34 +0000

Awesome. Just showed this to my boss and he loves it. I even assigned a shortcut for this macro…