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Reporter | |
VBOffice Reporter is an easy to use tool for data analysis and reporting in Outlook. A single click, for instance, allows you to see the number of hours planned for meetings the next month. |
With a recursive loop through all the folders you can, for instance, get all their contents without the need to know each folder name. This is useful if at programming time you don't know which or how many folders will be existent. This sample demonstrates the basics, which can easily be reused for different needs.
Public Sub LoopFolders(Folders As Outlook.Folders, _ ByVal Recursive As Boolean _ ) Dim Folder As Outlook.MAPIFolder For Each Folder In Folders DoAnything Folder If Recursive Then LoopFolders Folder.Folders, Recursive End If Next End Sub Private Sub DoAnything(Folder As Outlook.MAPIFolder) Debug.Print Folder.Name End Sub
Category-Manager | |
With Category-Manager you can group your Outlook categories, share them with other users, filter a folder by category, automatically categorize new emails, and more. You can use the Addin even for IMAP. |
Here comes an implementation for the above recursive loop through all folders: For a selected folder and its subfolders we set to not display the number of unread items but the number of all items.
Add the function 'ChangeFolderSettings' to the both functions above. Note the variable 'EditSubfolders': It controls whether the setting will be changed only for the subfolders of the selected folder or also for the selected one itself.
Public Sub ChangeFolderSettings() Dim Folder As Outlook.MapiFolder Dim EditSubfoldersOnly As Boolean 'Select start folder Set Folder = Application.Session.PickFolder 'True will change subfolders only, False will also change the start folder itself EditSubfoldersOnly = False If Not Folder Is Nothing Then If EditSubfoldersOnly = False Then DoAnything Folder LoopFolders Folder.Folders, True End If End Sub
In the function 'DoAnything' we need to change only a single line:
Private Sub DoAnything(Folder As Outlook.MAPIFolder) 'Setting the property to True will display all items, 'False would display unread items only Folder.ShowItemCount = True End Sub
This sample extends the folder loop by a loop through all of the items of each folder.
Public Sub LoopFolders(Folders As Outlook.Folders, _ ByVal Recursive As Boolean _ ) Dim Folder As Outlook.MAPIFolder For Each Folder In Folders LoopItems Folder.Items If Recursive Then LoopFolders Folder.Folders, Recursive End If Next End Sub Private Sub LoopItems(Items As Outlook.Items) Dim obj As Object For Each obj In Items If TypeOf obj Is Outlook.MailItem DoAnything obj End If Next End Sub Private Sub DoAnything(Item As Outlook.MailItem) Debug.Print Item.Subject End Sub
OLKeeper | |
OLKeeper reliably prevents users from closing their Outlook window and thus possibly missing reminders or e-mails. |
The samples above for the OOM work with all versions of Outlook, however, up to and including Outlook 2003 they are pretty slowly. For these versions of Outlook the CDO 1.21 library is much faster.
Public Sub LoopFolders(Folders As MAPI.Folders, _ ByVal Recursive As Boolean _ ) Dim Folder As MAPI.Folder For Each Folder In Folders DoAnything Folder If Recursive Then LoopFolders Folder.Folders, Recursive End If Next End Sub Private Sub DoAnything(Folder As MAPI.Folder) Debug.Print Folder.Name End Sub
Here comes the CDO version for listing the folder contents.
Public Sub LoopFolders(Folders As MAPI.Folders, _ ByVal Recursive As Boolean _ ) Dim Folder As MAPI.Folder For Each Folder In Folders LoopItems Folder.Messages If Recursive Then LoopFolders Folder.Folders, Recursive End If Next End Sub Private Sub LoopItems(Items As MAPI.Messages) Dim obj As Object For Each obj In Items If TypeOf obj Is MAPI.Message DoAnything obj End If Next End Sub Private Sub DoAnything(Item As MAPI.Message) Debug.Print Item.Subject End Sub
Category-Manager | |
With Category-Manager you can group your Outlook categories, share them with other users, filter a folder by category, automatically categorize new emails, and more. You can use the Addin even for IMAP. |