how to determine if user has Outlook or Lotus Notes

I have a bunch of users spread out in different locations. I have code
that pulls a tab out of a workbook and emails it to my address. I have
two problems...

#1 - I don't know how to determine if the user has Lotus Notes or
Microsoft Outlook

#2 - I don't know how to send the worksheet via Lotus Notes like I do
for Outlook users.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Jamie

On 30 Jun 2006 15:21:44 -0700, jseven wrote:

> I have a bunch of users spread out in different locations. I have code
> that pulls a tab out of a workbook and emails it to my address. I have
> two problems...
>
> #1 - I don't know how to determine if the user has Lotus Notes or
> Microsoft Outlook

For Outlook:

Dim a As Object
On Error GoTo err_nooutlook
Set a = CreateObject("outlook.application")
On Error GoTo 0
ex_sub:
Exit Sub

err_nooutlook:
MsgBox "No Outlook", vbOKOnly + vbExclamation
Resume ex_sub

Probably similar for LN, just replace "outlook.application" with
"Notes.NotesSession" (I havent't tested it, but should work).

> #2 - I don't know how to send the worksheet via Lotus Notes like I do
> for Outlook users.

I've found this code few months ago (I don't remember where...). I use LN
6.5 and the code works fine with this version. I don't know if it's
compatible with other versions.

'This public sub will send a mail and attachment if neccessary to the
'recipient including the body text.
'Requires that notes client is installed on the system.
Public Sub SendNotesMail(Subject As String, Attachment As String, Recipient
As String, BodyText As String, SaveIt As Boolean)
'Set up the objects required for Automation into lotus notes
Dim Maildb As Object 'The mail database
Dim UserName As String 'The current users notes name
Dim MailDbName As String 'THe current users notes mail database name
Dim MailDoc As Object 'The mail document itself
Dim AttachME As Object 'The attachment richtextfile object
Dim Session As Object 'The notes session
Dim EmbedObj As Object 'The embedded object (Attachment)
'Start a session to notes
Set Session = CreateObject("Notes.NotesSession")

'Get the sessions username and then calculate the mail file name
'You may or may not need this as for MailDBname with some systems you
'can pass an empty string or using above password you can use other
mailboxes.
UserName = Session.UserName
MailDbName = Left$(UserName, 1) & Right$(UserName, (Len(UserName) -
InStr(1, UserName, " "))) & ".nsf"
'Open the mail database in notes
Set Maildb = Session.GETDATABASE("", MailDbName)
If Maildb.IsOpen = True Then
'Already open for mail
Else
Maildb.OPENMAIL
End If
'Set up the new mail document
Set MailDoc = Maildb.CREATEDOCUMENT
MailDoc.Form = "Memo"
MailDoc.sendto = Recipient
MailDoc.Subject = Subject
MailDoc.Body = BodyText
MailDoc.SAVEMESSAGEONSEND = SaveIt
'Set up the embedded object and attachment and attach it
If Attachment <> "" Then
Set AttachME = MailDoc.CREATERICHTEXTITEM("Attachment")
Set EmbedObj = AttachME.EMBEDOBJECT(1454, "", Attachment,
"Attachment")
End If
'Send the document
MailDoc.PostedDate = Now() 'Gets the mail to appear in the sent items
folder
MailDoc.SEND 0, Recipient
'Clean Up
Set Maildb = Nothing
Set MailDoc = Nothing
Set AttachME = Nothing
Set Session = Nothing
Set EmbedObj = Nothing
End Sub

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PL