Outlook VBA - save attachment using email Subject as filename

I have a piece of VBA script that saves attachments, and is activated using outlook Rules.

The attachment I'm interested in comes once a day and always has the same name, so I want to concatenate the subject of the email - which does change each day (or concatenate the date of the email).

I have never done VBA before and the following *works* as long as 'emailsubject' is set equal to a "string like this":

Public Sub saveAttachtoDisk(itm As Outlook.MailItem)
Dim objAtt As Outlook.Attachment
Dim saveFolder As String
Dim emailsubject As String

emailsubject = "string like this"

saveFolder = "D:\Users\AAA\Reporting\"
For Each objAtt In itm.Attachments
objAtt.SaveAsFile saveFolder & "\" & emailsubject & objAtt.DisplayName
Set objAtt = Nothing
Next
End Sub

I have tried setting emailsubject equal to each of the following :
emailsubject = Outlook.olMailItem.Subject
emailsubject = Item.Subject
emailsubject = olMailItem.Subject
emailsubject = MailItem.Subject
emailsubject = objMsg.Subject

But none of these work - what is wrong / missing?
Many thanks
Quentin

VB ScriptOutlookEmail Clients

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quentinp

8/22/2022 - Mon

spinzr0

11/15/2010

It should be itm.Subject

quentinp

11/15/2010

ASKER

Thanks - but that's not working either, though it does pause in the same way as when it *is* working. Just no file in the folder.
I've realized that the Subject probably has some characters in it that will mess things up :

"/" and ":"

Alternatively - can I insert the date of the email?

spinzr0

11/15/2010

In that case, it would be itm.ReceivedTime. You'd still need to replace the \ and :. So I would use
Replace(Replace(item.ReceivedTime, "/", "-"), ":", ".")

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quentinp

11/15/2010

ASKER

Thanks - still not working though. I have :

Public Sub saveAttachtoDisk(itm As Outlook.MailItem)
Dim objAtt As Outlook.Attachment
Dim Msg As Outlook.MailItem
Dim saveFolder As String
Dim emailsubject As String

emailsubject = Replace(Replace(itm.ReceivedTime, "/", "-"), ":", ".")

saveFolder = "D:\Users\AAA\Reporting\"

For Each objAtt In itm.Attachments

objAtt.SaveAsFile saveFolder & "\" & emailsubject & objAtt.DisplayName

Set objAtt = Nothing

Next

End Sub

I tried
emailsubject = Replace(Replace(item.ReceivedTime, "/", "-"), ":", ".")
emailsubject = Replace(Replace(itm.ReceivedTime, "/", "-"), ":", ".")
emailsubject = Replace(Replace(itm.CreationTime, "/", "-"), ":", ".")
emailsubject = itm.class
emailsubject = Msg.class
emailsubject = itm.Importance
emailsubject = Msg.Importance

in the above - (I was hoping to hit a property that didn't need the Replace function) and none of them worked.

For debugging is there a way to find out if I am getting a value for "emailsubject" - before I try to use it in a filename? (Can I show it onscreen?)

Many thanks
Quentin

spinzr0

11/15/2010

emailsubject = Replace(Replace(itm.ReceivedTime, "/", "-"), ":", ".")

msgbox emailsubject

quentinp

11/15/2010

ASKER

Something weird is going on - after this didn't work I've gone all the way back to the original script that did work, and still no luck.
So something else has changed in the meantime.
I've restarted Outlook, still no luck. will have another go at this tomorrow.
Many thanks
Quentin

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spinzr0

11/17/2010

Any luck? Happy to still help.

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9/30/2011

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