Method for accessing Outlook

1. Login to access emails, tasks, appointments, contacts and/or contact groups: function EmailStartOutlookSession or OutlookStartSession.
   You can also use EmailStartSession with a variable of type emailOutlookSession.
2. Logout: function CloseSession or EmailCloseSession.

Sending and receiving emails

• Automatic sending and IncomingData: Select the following options in Outlook options:
  • "Send the messages immediately during the connection".
  • "Check the new incoming messages every X minutes" and specify the requested number of minutes.
• Manual sending and receiving Click on the "Send / Receive" button.

Version of Outlook

MS Exchange server

• The access to Outlook is compatible with the MS Exchange servers but it requires the presence of an Outlook client on the computer.
• When using the Exchange or Outlook functions in a WEBDEV website, an Outlook client must be installed and configured on the server in the profile of the Internet guest.

• the emails via the Email functions.
  Warning: If an Outlook user has several e-mail accounts and several data files (pst file) in his profile, only e-mails from the pst file linked to the server (default pst file) will be read.
• the tasks via the Task functions.
• the appointments via the Appointment functions.
• the contacts via the Contact functions.
• the groups of contacts via the Group functions.

Outlook Notes

Limitations

• The WLanguage functions can be used to write the information into the "Contacts" database of Outlook but not into the "Address Book" database. Depending on the creation mode of the email in Outlook, Outlook proposes:
  • the addresses of contacts (containing the addresses managed WINDEV).
  • the addresses of the address book.
• When used in a WEBDEV website, an Outlook client must be installed and configured on the server in the profile of the Internet guest.
• To access Outlook in 64-bit mode, the WINDEV application must also be in 64-bit mode.