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Outlook Programming - creating Timesheet

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by burst^capacitor

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I need to come up with a way to create electronic timesheet.So the option which I believe i have is integrating the timesheet in Outlook since it been used extensively. But I am not familiar in Outlook programming.
What I have is this:
1)MicrosoftOutlook 97
2)Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0
3)Microsoft Access 97

Please advice what and how should I do it.

p/s : if you guys have come accross any good 3rd party timesheet software, please let me know.

Thank you .

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by vinnyd

I guess you have never been to the Microsoft.com Download site.

For Outlook 97 and 98 they have a file called timecard.exe which is a free download that has an electronic timesheet.

The timesheet is an outlook form that has an Excel spreadsheet embedded it in it. So I do not know if this one will work for you since Excel was not in the list above.

Try it out and see if it works.

by bill

I'd suggest you get a copy of 'Office Developer' from Microsoft, and/or a subscription to MSDN.

What you want to do, is very doable, and involves writing an app to sit 'between' your database and Outlook, and on certain database change events, update the appropriate Outlook info.

Not all that bad a task, and one that sounds kinda fun to do, but you'll be spinning your wheels without the code snippets and samples from the two tools I suggested.

Let me know if I can help ya further.

-Bill

by burst^capacitor

Guys, thanks for your advice, but i have taken a different approche. Managed to get it done through the companies intranet.Found a company that develops Timesheet programs for intranets, www.softerra.com. I have downloaded the free version of the programme and it is now runnning fine on the intranet.
Thanks again for your responses.

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