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Call A VB Script In A Rule In Outlook






Prerequisite






  1. Open registry editor (using ‘regedit’ in run).
  2. Go to the following path in registry editor - Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Security
  3. Change the value of ‘EnableUnsafeClientMailRules’ from 0 to 1.
  4. Picture showing registry window for setting the value of EnableUnsafeClientMailRules from 0 to 1
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  5. Close the registry editor.

Create A VBA Script




  1. Go to the ‘Developer’ tab in outlook.
  2. Click on ‘Visual Basic’ button.
  3. Picture showing the Visual Studio button inside the developer tab
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  4. An editor will open as shown in screen shot below
  5. Picture showing the visual basic editor for writing code
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Sub MyMethod(Item As Outlook.MailItem)
	MsgBox "Hi"
End Sub




Picture showing the implementation of MyMethod inside the visual basic editor
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Create Rule




  1. Go to the ‘Home’ tab.
  2. Click on ‘Rules’ – ‘Create Rules…’
  3. Picture showing the Rules menu for creating new rules
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  4. A pop-up window will appear as shown in figure below
  5. Picture showing the Create Rule window for setting the rule on subject line
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  6. Here, you can select the any condition. For this article, I am selecting a condition – when Subject contains ‘TestTest’.
  7. Click on ‘Advanced Options…’. Following window will come
  8. Picture showing the Rules wizard when rule is created on the subject line
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  9. Click on ‘Next’.
  10. In the next screen, select the option ‘run a script’
  11. Picture showing the action to be performed when rule criteria is met
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  12. In the second window, click on the ‘a script’ link as shown by red border in above image.
  13. A window will appear to select the script
  14. Picture showing the list of script to be choosen for execution
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  15. Click ‘Ok’ to close this window and click on ‘Finish’ in the parent window.

Output




Picture showing the message box which invoked when the rule criteria is met
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Posted By  -  Karan Gupta
 
Posted On  -  Sunday, October 21, 2018

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