Post Appointments to a Shared Calendar

[sfritz]

Hi Advansys Support,

I am writing in hopes that you will have an example kicking around or some guidance, either would be greatly appreciated.

I have written a call documentation tool for our Child Health Line using formativ. The call documentation tool writes out all the the data to an MySQL database. An enhancement has been requested to be able to book prenatal consults while documenting the call as appointment would need the Caller’s name, phone number and area which is collected on the form already as mandatory fields. Each user has proxy access to the prenatal calendar. The users would like to be prompted when prenatal consults is selected for the reason for the call, would you like to book an appt now? Yes/No If yes, pop up a calendar that includes date/time, pull the caller’s information and post an appointment to the calendar. No busy search is required as there is a rule on the calendar to accept all appointments and our administrative team does clean up manually. Then return to the form and continue processing. If the caller’s does not wish to book the appointment, the user can carry on with the call details. Is this possible?

Talk to you soon.
Shelley

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[Support 2]

We hope to be able to reply with a suggestion soon. Unfortunately this time of year is a little crazy.

Regards,

Advansys Support

[sfritz]

Not a problem, I completely understand. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and look forward to your suggestions in the New Year.

[Support 2]

Thank you for your understanding and best wishes also to you and your colleagues!

Regards,

Advansys Support

[Support 3]

Sorry for the delay in our response.

It looks like you can achieve your enhancement request using Formativ. You can write a function to create and send an Appointment when the user being prompted to “Would you like to book an appt now?” and pressed the ok button. If you are using GroupWise 7 then you can create a sub-calendar and share the calendar with other users. Select Calendar folder and choose “New Calendar” popup menu option to create a new calendar. Choose “Sharing…” popup menu option to provide the share users list. You can use the Formativ to create posted Appointment into this shared sub-calendar. Please see below an example to create posted Appointment into a sub-calendar.

See the Object API (http://developer.novell.com/documentation/gwobjapi/index.html?gwobjenu/data/h7ikbsqg.html), Formativ Language Guide and Developers Guide for more information.

  
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' This sample code create a posted Appointment into a sub-calendar called
' "Prenatal Calendar". The idea is to share the sub-calendar with other users so
' that shared users can add or modify the calendar items. This sub-calendar
' option is only available in GroupWise 7 or later version.
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sub Main(Client, GWEvent)

  CreateAppointment("Prenatal Calendar")

End Sub



' Create posted appointment in sub-calendar folder. You can share this sub-calendar
' folder with others users so that shared users can view the calendar messages.
sub CreateAppointment(aSubFolderName)

  dim oAppt
  dim oFolder
  dim oSubCalendar

  set oSubCalendar = nothing

  for each oFolder in groupwise.account.calendar.folders
    if (ucase(oFolder.name) = ucase(aSubFolderName)) then
      set oSubCalendar = oFolder
      exit for
    end if
  next

  if (oSubCalendar is nothing) then
    exit sub
  end if


  set oAppt = nothing
  set oAppt = oSubCalendar.messages.add("GW.MESSAGE.APPOINTMENT", fgwPersonal)
  oAppt.StartDate = now
  oAppt.EndDate = DateAdd("h", 1, now)
  oAppt.Place = "Office"
  oAppt.Subject.plaintext = "Test Appointment: " & now
  oAppt.BodyText.plaintext = "Test appointment. Please ignore."


  set oAppt = nothing
  set oFolder = nothing
  set oSubCalendar = nothing

end sub

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Advansys Support

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