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Outlook 2003 VBA needed to parse a subject line and run a dos batch file passing parameters

Asked by smyers051972 in VB Script, Outlook Groupware Software

Tags: Microsoft, Outlook, 2003, Outlook VBA Subject line parsing

I have a VBA script that is set up with a rule in outlook 2003 that takes an attachment and copies it to the hard drive, then a batch file is run against that script file. This way is just not as efficient and would like some help getting a new VBA that would provide the following functionality:

End User sends an email to a specified email account (only accessable internally) with the following text in the email subject: Report ReportName player# ship

Through a rule set up in outlook 2003 would match the word "Report" in the subject line, a VBA script is called and does the following:

1. VBA code should first generate a email receipt back to the address that sent the request stating the following in the email:

From: Noreply@ (fake address)
Subject: ReportName Player# Ship Reciept <- (Parsed and below from Subject)

Body:
The Report you requested for player# on ship was received and will be processed shortly, once completed it will be emailed back to you as a PDF attachment. Thank you.

After the reciept is emailed, the script should continue and call a dos batch file with the following parameters: C:\reports\myreport reportname player# ship requesting_email_address

When the VBA is calling the batch file, the data it sends would all be parsed from the subject and the email address of the original requestor should be passed as shown above. One reason for using the subject line also helps when users would send HTML and Text formatted emails, this should eliminate that issue however in the alternative perhaps the email could be converted to text format through the script first if it would possibly still become an issue some how.

Thanks again for your help. I have attached the VBA script I have now however all it does is copy the attachment to the hard drive and then a third step in my rule calls a batch file through outlook rules and the dos batch file parses the text file. I really would like to eliminate all that and just go from the subject line as shown above.

Thanks again!

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             Sub AARSaveAttachmentsToDiskRule(olkMessage As Outlook.MailItem)
    Dim olkAttachment As Outlook.Attachment, _
        objFSO As Object, _
        strRootFolderPath As String, _
        strFilename As String
    'Change the path on the following line to the folder you want the attachments save in
    strRootFolderPath = "C:\util\reports\"
    Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    For Each olkAttachment In olkMessage.Attachments
        strFilename = olkAttachment.FileName
        intCount = 0
        Do While True
            If objFSO.FileExists(strRootFolderPath & strFilename) Then
                intCount = intCount + 1
                strFilename = "Copy (" & intCount & ") of " & olkAttachment.FileName
            Else
                Exit Do
            End If
        Loop
        olkAttachment.SaveAsFile strRootFolderPath & strFilename
    Next
    Set objFSO = Nothing
    Set olkAttachment = Nothing
    Set olkMessage = Nothing
End Sub

           
         

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Outlook 2003 VBA needed to parse a subject line and run a dos batch file passing parameters

Asked by smyers051972 in VB Script, Outlook Groupware Software

Tags: Microsoft, Outlook, 2003, Outlook VBA Subject line parsing

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