Script to Extract a pdf Attachment out of Outlook

Question

 I have Microsoft Outlook 2007.  I was wondering if I can set a rule up in Outlook to take any e-mail with my companies Change Order Form (a pdf file - usually, when this file comes up, it has the words "Change Order" in the subject line of the e-mail) and save the attachment to a place on my harddrive.  Is this possible?  I saw where a rule can be set up to "run script" when certain crieria apply.  Is this something that could be done through java script?  If so, how should the java script read?  Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The existing Rules Wizard can't save attachments, so you'll have to create a rule to run a script:

How to create a script for the Rules Wizard in Outlook:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q306108

The "script" is actually a VBA macro within Outook, so you can't use JavaScript.

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Eric Legault
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Answer 2

Thank you for the information.  Do you by chance know where I can find vba that will save the attachments in a separate file?

Answer 3

No problem. 

MSDN is your friend:

Attachment.SaveAsFile Method (Outlook):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff869359.aspx

There's lots of code at OutlookCode.com as well.

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Eric Legault
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Answer 4

Look on this:

Tworzenie własnego programu - Lekcja 3. Export załączników z parametrami (pl-PL)

Saving images and attachments used in e-mail messages (en-US)

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Oskar Shon, Office System MVP

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Answer 5

The code on OutlookCode.com worked perfectly.  Thank you so much for your help.

Answer 6

I have a question regarding the code that I added to Outlook yesterday.  Everything ran perfectly yesterday.  However, when I try to run the same Macro today, I keep getting an error message.  The message says "The macros in this project are disabled.  Please refer to the online help or documentation of the host application to determine how to enable macros."  When I click on the help button, it just tells me that I need to open the program with macros enabled, but I don't have that option when I open Outlook.  This worked yesterday, why won't it work today.  I didn't do anything differently.  How can I turn the macros on and have them come on each time I open Outlook?

Answer 7

You need to change the macro settings in Outlook, not at startup.  Go to Options -> Trust Center -> Macro Settings.  You want to set it to "Enable all" or "Notifications for all macros".

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Eric Legault
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Answer 8

That worked.  Thank you.