Adding data to Outlook contacts

General
1

Hello friends of the Vaadin framework,

i am migrating an old php based application ( internal telefon book ) to the vaadin framework. It was possible to add telefon data via js-function to the contacts in MS Outlook.
I am connected to our internal net, via the domain user and Outlook works.
Trying this in Vaadin…until now no success.

       Button outlookButton = new Button();
        outlookButton.addListener(new Button.ClickListener()
        {
            public void buttonClick(ClickEvent event)
            {
                String script = "var Outlook = new ActiveXObject(\"Outlook.Application\");var myNamespace = Outlook.GetNamespace(\"MAPI\");var Kontakt = myFolder.Items.Add;var Suche = \"Test123\".indexOf(\" \");Kontakt.LastName = \"Test123\".substring(0,Suche);Kontakt.FirstName = \"Test123\".substring(0,Suche);Kontakt.Display();Kontakt.Save();Kontakt.Close(2);";
                final TextArea textarea = new TextArea();
                textarea.setValue(script);
                textarea.setVisible(false);
                mainWindow.addComponent(textarea);
                mainWindow.executeJavaScript(textarea.getValue().toString());
            }
        });

Did somebody have the same request ?

Thanks for your help,

Hans

2

Hello together,

it looks that there are also to do some settings in IE 8 ( before IE 7 was used ).
Inside the function with the test datas there are also mistakes with string separatings.
I will investigate further and update the post.

Greatings

Hans

3

Hurra…

the solution:

// Outlook-Export
Button outlookButton = new Button();
outlookButton.addListener(new Button.ClickListener()
{
public void buttonClick(ClickEvent event)
{
final TextArea script = new TextArea();
script.setVisible(false);
script.setValue(“var Outlook = new ActiveXObject("Outlook.Application");\n”
+ “Outlook.CreateObject("Outlook.Application");\n”
+ “var myNamespace = Outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI");\n”
+ “var myFolder = myNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(10);\n”
+ “var Kontakt = myFolder.Items.Add;\n”
+ “Kontakt.LastName = "Test456LastName";\n”
+ “Kontakt.FirstName = "Test456FirstName";\n”
+ “Kontakt.Display();\n”
+ “Kontakt.Save();\n”
+ “Kontakt.Close(2);\n”
+ “alert("Kontakt in Outlook übernommen")”);
mainWindow.addComponent(script);
mainWindow.executeJavaScript(script.getValue().toString());
}
});

Make sure, when running the applicatian that you are in your Intranet !
You have to be connected to your Outlook via your domain user.
The settings in IE 8 have to allow the running of ActiveXObjects.
Separate the first and family name and other informations out of your data container and replace the fixed values.

Hope this helps you all to have fun with Vaadin.

Greatings

Hans

4

Is the invisible TextArea really needed here or could you simply directly give the string as a parameter to mainWindow.executeJavaScript()?

5

Hello Henri,

good Question .
Thinking about a clearly layout (for separating all the data’s like e-mail, office telephone number, mobile number etc.out of the persistence layer and concatenate it for the javascript engine) i prefer this coding.
The values for the javascript/Outlook var’s will be replaced with java strings.

Have you any doubt about performance or something else ? Until now, everything works well.
I attached a screen shot with the button functionality.

Greatings

Hans
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