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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task
« on: July 26, 2008, 01:35 AM »
What I did to make it work :

1- I only used the "Quick Outlook tasks" folder found in the archive -- not the 2 other folders (I'm not sure why they were included -- they should probably be removed).

2- I extracted (dragged and drop) this "Quick Outlook tasks" folder in :

%your program files folder%\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\

So that it looks like (in my system):

C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\QuickOutlookTask

3- Should one restart farr after that...? Farr crashed here... But when I restarted it, the alias worked as expected!  :up:

so

do my favorite task

created a task called.... my favorite task

Now, this thing doesn't seem to be open source, but it would have been nice if it was possible to add other info (comma or semicolon separated, maybe) like : task; priority; multiple categories; etc.

I'm glad you got it to work Armando!

Ad 1. What other two folders do you mean? In the archive there is only the QuickOutlookTask folder and one subfolder for the icon.

Ad 2. Extracting to the Custom folder also works, yes - it means you can edit the alias if you want.

Ad 3. I don't know enough about FARR to know if FARR should be restarted. It may be that FARR only reads the pre-installed aliases at program start and in that case it should be restarted. Maybe Mouser could give us a "Reload all Aliases" button as there is for the plugins.

And yes, I would also like to be able to give some more info, as you suggest, including the date and if a reminder should be set, but this is all that the do.exe application allows, as far as I know. Maybe I'll try to write a small application myself that will allow this. That would be fun, but I will have to find the time - I have never interacted with Outlook from a program before.

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Find And Run Robot / FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task
« on: July 25, 2008, 12:57 PM »
I use Outlook tasks quite a lot, for serious tasks, to-do lists, but also quick reminders. Today I stumbled across "QuickOutlookTask", a small command-line utility that allows you to quickly add an Outlook task. You simply type something like "do new outlook task" (command line, or Windows Run) and this creates a new Outlook task with subject "new outlook task". Outlook needn't even be running. See http://www.megalab.it/articoli.php?id=1288.

Well, a couple of days ago I discovered FARR and quickly fell in love with it (kudos, mouser :Thmbsup:) and I wanted to have this through FARR. So I wrapped this functionality in a FARR alias, and this is my attempt to pass it on to you.

Please extract the files in the zip-file to AliasGroups\Installed in your FindAndRunRobot installation folder. You should now have a FARR alias "do" and should be able to create an Outlook task by hitting your FARR hotkey and then typing "do something" (sans quotes). I  hope I am doing this right, because I am new to this game.

PLEASE NOTE:  The latest version of QuickOutlookTast is available at http://jpijper.dcmembers.com.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Farr Alias: Window Management
« on: July 24, 2008, 03:36 AM »
Eeer, o, I see, thanks   :-[ :-[

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Farr Alias: Window Management
« on: July 23, 2008, 06:55 AM »
  :up: Nice one jgpaiva!

Could you add a "restore" option? Or a "normal" option?  :-\

Thanks,
Jan Roelof

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If you have dos here installed, you already get what you want if you right-click the folder in the results and then choose "Shell context menu" !

Have fun!
Jan Roelof

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