Adding Appointments to other users outlook calendar

DeliriumNZ has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Im new so please bare with me. I have been given a project at work to create a perl script that sorts out incoming mail to a particular mailbox and then extracts data from those emails and then uses that data to create appointments in the calendar. Now I have managed to create this successfully but the problem I have is the calendar is another persons calendar, where i can only get it going for doing it on my calendar. so how do i add an appointment to another persons calendar, is pretty much what I need. It is driving me nuts. I have looked all over the internet and cant find anything.

Here is a sample of the code I am using for my calendar:


if(($start=index($subject, "Telecom Service Event", $start)) != -1) {
        ($SubjectRefuge, $Ref) = split(/Ref. /, $subject);
        
        my $newoutlook = Win32::OLE->new('Outlook.Application') or die
+ "Error!\n";
        my $newappt = $newoutlook->CreateItem(olAppointmentItem);
        $newappt->{Subject} = "Telecom Outage Ref: $Ref";
        $newappt->{Start} = "$Date $NZStd";
        $newappt->{Duration} = 1 ;  #1 minute
        $newappt->{Body} = "$body";
        $newappt->{ReminderMinutesBeforeStart} = 1;
        $newappt->{BusyStatus} = olFree;
        $newappt->Save();
    }
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Re: Adding Appointments to other users outlook calendar by Perlbotics (Archbishop) on May 01, 2009 at 18:57 UTC
Hi, I'm just guessing, but you might have troubles accessing other peoples Outlook processes because of access restrictions (other user and/or other computer) - which is annoying but good. Outlook uses normal eMails to invite to appointments. Maybe sending invitations to the people in question is an alternative unless there is a requirement for a silent calendar update? However, depending on the number of invitations it could be annoying to receive 20 or so invitations at once. This link might be a starter: Exchange Compatible iCAL Invitations Another option might be to create and share a calendar specially provided for event-announcements (e.g. Share your calendar information)... Directly accessing the Exchange server would probably be the cleanest solution, but that's beyond my experience. Maybe another Monk knows....?	[reply]
Re^2: Adding Appointments to other users outlook calendar by spectre9 (Beadle) on May 01, 2009 at 19:56 UTC
Maybe you could use Mail::Outlook as a springboard to get the functionality you wish. "Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity." -- Shunryu Suzuki	[reply]