VBA Outlook 2013: How to retrieve a Vcard from a webpage and assign to a contactitem object
Situation: I have a Webpages containing Links to a vcards. If I click on such a link, I can either retrieve this vcard in form of a contactitem or can download the vcf file.
Now I want to handle this from a macro. The vba macro is supposed to Analyse the Webpage, find the URL referring to the vcard, and create a contactitem with These vacrd Information.
The problem I'm having is, that navigating to the URL automatically Downloads the vcf file. Idon't see how I can retrieve the Information and make it accessible in the macro for further Analysis.
So simply spoken, the idea is:
Analyse Webpage
find URL to vcard
retrieve vcard (as contactitem?)
Have Information from vcard accessible for further Analysis
Can someone Point me to how I can retrieve Information and make it accessible from within the macro?
Now I want to handle this from a macro. The vba macro is supposed to Analyse the Webpage, find the URL referring to the vcard, and create a contactitem with These vacrd Information.
The problem I'm having is, that navigating to the URL automatically Downloads the vcf file. Idon't see how I can retrieve the Information and make it accessible in the macro for further Analysis.
So simply spoken, the idea is:
Analyse Webpage
find URL to vcard
retrieve vcard (as contactitem?)
Have Information from vcard accessible for further Analysis
Can someone Point me to how I can retrieve Information and make it accessible from within the macro?
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@BlueDevilFan: Thanks for the code and your Patience. I've been experimenting quite a while and finally decided to use the following construct:
1. Navigate to the URL (IE.navigate) and Exit the running macro (Following further on the Explorer properties didn't get me any further, as the Explorer looses any Connection to the URL called)
2. Chose "open" from the Dialog "open,save,cancel"
3. Once the vcard is open, it is displayed in a new inspector. I capture the Event "newinspector" and process from there the downloaded Contact Object. The Beauty of this is, that I can use the full object properties of the contact and I can save the contact, too.
But thanks very much anyway for investigating!
1. Navigate to the URL (IE.navigate) and Exit the running macro (Following further on the Explorer properties didn't get me any further, as the Explorer looses any Connection to the URL called)
2. Chose "open" from the Dialog "open,save,cancel"
3. Once the vcard is open, it is displayed in a new inspector. I capture the Event "newinspector" and process from there the downloaded Contact Object. The Beauty of this is, that I can use the full object properties of the contact and I can save the contact, too.
But thanks very much anyway for investigating!
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