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Francesco Guarino Free tool to Sync Salesforce events with Outlook or Google Calendar
Hi all,
I'm in a big trouble trying to find such a tool. Anyone knows a tool or a workaroud to do that? The only thing I've thinked is using a trigger when an event is created that does somithing to emule sending an invite, like this:
If no tool is available, is there a way to automate this process? Thanks!
I'm in a big trouble trying to find such a tool. Anyone knows a tool or a workaroud to do that? The only thing I've thinked is using a trigger when an event is created that does somithing to emule sending an invite, like this:
public class SendEmail {
public String sendTo { get; set; }
public String Subject { get; set; }
public Event objEvent{get;set;}
public SendEmail() {}
public sendInvite() {
Messaging.SingleEmailMessage mail = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();
String[] toAddresses = new String[] {sendTo};
mail.setToAddresses(toAddresses);
mail.setSubject(Subject);
mail.setPlainTextBody('');
Messaging.EmailFileAttachment attach = new Messaging.EmailFileAttachment();
attach.filename = 'meeting.ics';
attach.ContentType = 'text/calendar;';
attach.inline = true;
attach.body = invite();
mail.setFileAttachments(new Messaging.EmailFileAttachment[] {attach});
Messaging.SendEmailResult[] er = Messaging.sendEmail(new Messaging.Email[] {mail});
return null;
}
private Blob invite() {
String txtInvite = '';
txtInvite += 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR\n';
txtInvite += 'PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 12.0 MIMEDIR//EN\n';
txtInvite += 'VERSION:2.0\n';
txtInvite += 'METHOD:PUBLISH\n';
txtInvite += 'X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE\n';
txtInvite += 'BEGIN:VEVENT\n';
txtInvite += 'CLASS:PUBLIC\n';
txtInvite += 'CREATED:20150709T083709Z\n';
txtInvite += 'DTEND:20150709T010000Z\n';
txtInvite += 'DTSTAMP:20150708T203709Z\n';
txtInvite += 'DTSTART:20150709T000000Z\n';
txtInvite += 'LAST-MODIFIED:20150708T203709Z\n';
txtInvite += 'LOCATION:Online\n';
txtInvite += 'PRIORITY:5\n';
txtInvite += 'SEQUENCE:0\n';
txtInvite += 'SUMMARY;';
txtInvite += 'LANGUAGE=en-us:Meeting\n';
txtInvite += 'TRANSP:OPAQUE\n';
txtInvite += 'UID:4036587160834EA4AE7848CBD028D1D200000000000000000000000000000000\n';
txtInvite += 'X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"><HTML><HEAD><META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 08.00.0681.000"><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD><BODY><!-- Converted from text/plain format --></BODY></HTML>\n';
txtInvite += 'X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY\n';
txtInvite += 'X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1\n';
txtInvite += 'END:VEVENT\n';
txtInvite += 'END:VCALENDAR';
return Blob.valueOf(txtInvite);
}
}
If no tool is available, is there a way to automate this process? Thanks!
Please refer below article for Syncing Events with Salesforce for Outlook | Salesforce.
https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=outlookcrm_sync_events.htm&language=en_US
And also see AppExchange for free APPs.
https://appexchange.salesforce.com/category/email-calendar
Hope this helps you!
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Sandhya