Comments on: Lean GTD 2007 http://blog.drakengren.com The place for me to turn abstract stuff into concrete (!). Mon, 16 May 2011 13:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thomas Drakengren http://blog.drakengren.com/lean-gtd-2007/#comment-418 Mon, 16 May 2011 13:06:39 +0000 http://blog.drakengren.com/?page_id=178#comment-418 OK, done! :-)

]]> By: ideasmiths http://blog.drakengren.com/lean-gtd-2007/#comment-417 Mon, 16 May 2011 13:00:35 +0000 http://blog.drakengren.com/?page_id=178#comment-417 Outlook2010 changed so much compared to outlook 2002/2007 that I had used. The commandbar that you used is no longer supported after 2010 so i guess the accelerator buttons went with it. 2 weeks ago, Microsoft launched the Outlook365 (online cloud based stuff) which is in beta stage and free for all to use at the moment. I am guessing Outlook2010 days are numbered too ….

]]> By: ideasmiths http://blog.drakengren.com/lean-gtd-2007/#comment-416 Mon, 16 May 2011 12:44:11 +0000 http://blog.drakengren.com/?page_id=178#comment-416 Sorry thomas my fault, i missed copying two lines of code. Please delete the earlier commend. This commend contains the correct codes

I have completed my own routines and got some time to install the LeanGTD2007. I have made some small changes to enable it to work for 2010.
The issue was the obscure bug attachment.add method which works in 2007 but broke in 2010. This bug went undocumented and was supposed to be fixed in outlook service pack 1 (but it’s still there). I had to dig this information up after several deep google searches.

Anyway, 2010 users should just install the downloaded LeanGTD2007.bas, ignore the message during installation that this will only works on 2007. After installation, you will see in the addin tab the 4 commands buttons. Click on each of them in turn and when it broke, click debug and add in these code. For example, the Act on item command button fails at this line newTask.Attachments.Add selectedItem
Replace that line with these codes. What it does is to save the item you selected onto the system temporary folder, then allows itself to be added to the new task. (jargon for programmers)…..The Microsoft bug does not allow outlook items to be added correctly, even when the method shows no bug

Dim strTempPath As String
Dim strPath As String
‘Use the user computer /TEMP location to store attachments found in mails
strTempPath = Environ(“TEMP”)
strPath = strTempPath & “\testmsg.msg”
selectedItem.SaveAs strPath, olMSG
newTask.Attachments.Add strPath, Outlook.olEmbeddeditem, 1, selectedItem.subject

‘newTask.Attachments.Add selectedItem

Take note, if you copy and paste the codes above, some browsers will change the single quote ‘ and doublequotes ” to something else and cause it to fail in your outlook debug, just retype it (the correct single and double quote is on the left of the return key)

Repeat the same process with the command button schedule Item with the replacement codes below

Dim strTempPath As String
Dim strPath As String
‘Use the user computer /TEMP location to store attachments found in mails
strTempPath = Environ(“TEMP”)
strPath = strTempPath & “\testmsg.msg”
selectedItem.SaveAs strPath, olMSG

newAppointment.Attachments.Add strPath, Outlook.olEmbeddeditem, 1, selectedItem.subject

]]> By: Thomas Drakengren http://blog.drakengren.com/lean-gtd-2007/#comment-415 Mon, 16 May 2011 12:35:04 +0000 http://blog.drakengren.com/?page_id=178#comment-415 Splendid, thanks a lot, that wasn’t easy to realize! I’ll take the time to integrate this into the macros as soon as possible. I need to look at the accelerator keys too; they don’t seem to work either. Probably I’m using an outdated method for those…

]]> By: ideasmiths http://blog.drakengren.com/lean-gtd-2007/#comment-414 Mon, 16 May 2011 12:11:26 +0000 http://blog.drakengren.com/?page_id=178#comment-414 [Deleted comment. Updated comment below! /Thomas]

]]> By: Lean GTD 2007 for Outlook 2010 « Conceptual Integrity http://blog.drakengren.com/lean-gtd-2007/#comment-224 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:28:13 +0000 http://blog.drakengren.com/?page_id=178#comment-224 [...] Outlook 2010 Posted on June 20, 2010 by Thomas Drakengren Reader bgbuffalo was so kind to point out that my macro package for simplifying GTD with Outlook 2007, Lean GTD 2007, didn’t work with [...]

]]> By: bgbuffalo http://blog.drakengren.com/lean-gtd-2007/#comment-223 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:47:19 +0000 http://blog.drakengren.com/?page_id=178#comment-223 Sure, I appreciate what you have done and miss having a working macro.

]]> By: Thomas Drakengren http://blog.drakengren.com/lean-gtd-2007/#comment-222 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:14:53 +0000 http://blog.drakengren.com/?page_id=178#comment-222 Thanks for reporting this. I haven’t yet upgraded to Outlook 2010, so probably some changes are needed. I’ll look into this to see if I can make some changes based upon the documentation only. Perhaps I can send my attempts to you for testing?

]]> By: bgbuffalo http://blog.drakengren.com/lean-gtd-2007/#comment-221 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:36:53 +0000 http://blog.drakengren.com/?page_id=178#comment-221 Just upgraded to Outlook 2010. The macro installs and the 4 buttons show up on the “add-ins” tab of the ribbon. Two of them, “next action” and “all day” open up a new task or appointment, but the text of the email are not carried into the new windows. “Act on item” and “schedule” bring up error message “8004010f object could not be found”.

Clicking on debug brings you to “newTask.Attachments.Add selectedItem” and ” newAppointment.Attachments.Add selectedItem” respectively. Unfortunately my knowledge of VB is nil, hopefully it is a simple fix. I had been using the macro regularly.

]]> By: Thomas Drakengren http://blog.drakengren.com/lean-gtd-2007/#comment-216 Tue, 25 May 2010 12:12:20 +0000 http://blog.drakengren.com/?page_id=178#comment-216 Thanks, I’m happy that you like it! :-)

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