how best to create an appointment from external app?

[glenndm]

Hi,
As my zimbra setup is nearing completion, I'm now wondering about the best way to link it with other custom office applications.
These applications include invoicing, accounting with quoting and phonecall followups. they all are windows-based and access a central FoxPro database (which I must keep)

Those apps can add appointments in outlook calendars (and create other msoffice docs)

When the zimbra server is going live (OSS), outlook will be dropped favoring the webapp under firefox.

What I need to know first, is the best way for an external (windows?) application to zimbra to create appointements.

Is this something zimlets could do? If so, which language are they written in?

regards
glenn

[JoshuaPrismon]

Your best bet is probably either to create a iCalender event and upload it, or to use the Zclient/SOAP interface to call the server to create the event.

For both systems you probably want to create the event in your existing application rather then in Zimbra.

If you wanted, you could also have Zimbra pull the events from a outside server. If you did that, you could write the functionality in a Zimlet (which itself is written in Javascript).

[SuperMario]

The best way to build code to do this involves the following steps:

1) Grab the mailbox
2) Create a ZComponent
3) Fill the ZComponent with the following values:
* start time
* end time
* location
* name
4) Set the ZComponent as the component of a ZInvite
5) Create a ZMailbox.ZOutgoingMessage object
6) Create a ZMailbox.ZOutgoingMessage.MessagePart object
* The constructor here will take your content-type and content
7) Set the ZMailbox.ZOutgoingMessage object
* subject
* message (which is a ZMailbox.ZOutgoingMessage.MessagePart object)
8) Use the mailbox to add the appointment
* mBox.createAppointment(folderId, flags, ZMailbox.ZOutgoingMessage, ZInvite, event_id)

[glenndm]

enough new keywords to keep me occupied!

thank you both for the suggestions.
glenn

[dipeshmehta]

Originally Posted by glenndm

enough new keywords to keep me occupied!

thank you both for the suggestions.
glenn

Hello,

First of all, sorry for opening too old thread.

I just wanted to know, had you achieved your goal? My requirement is very similar to yours, so if your answer is 'yes', I shall need little guidance from you.

Thanks in advance.

Dipesh

[glenndm]

Sadly, this is still on my todo list. At the time it got shoved down as other matters took precedence and it hasn't floated back up since.

glenn