Comments on: OutLinker Setup Gets Easier and New Attachment Feature

By: Carlo

Carlo — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:00:07 +0000

Hi, what is the very latest version of Outlook Linker supposed to be?
The beta installer link takes to file oulinker332.exe, but when I check for updates from within Outlook Linker I get a warning saying that I'm running version 20110329 while the latest version is 2011112.
How can I get that version 20111112 (assuming it is indeed the most recent one)?
Thanks,
Carlo

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:04:09 +0000

Hi Ron — "ThreadZoom" was a quick hack to have it navigate across just the messages in the thread. The latest version replaces this with "nt" (next in thread) and "pt" (previous in thread) buttons.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:45:19 +0000

Yep – PEBKAC – all is fine after redoing the copy/paste.

On another note, what is the ThreadZoom button supposed to do? I see the note that says "X msgs in this thread" but clicking the button does nothing that I can discern. Am I missing something?

Ron

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:46:37 +0000

Ron — That is strange. Did you paste the macro in from the wiki? That function is the last one at the end so perhaps it got left out in the cut/paste?

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:30:32 +0000

Just installed the latest update and am getting "Compile error: Sub or Function not defined" pointing at "olversioncheck" on line 108.

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:46:48 +0000

Thinking about this some more, it is much easier for MindReader users to just retain the necessary English keywords in their mindreaderconfig.mmap to convert the few keywords that OutLinker sets. The source code for OutLinker in the latest version does break out the language keywords so it can be customized if desired.

The latest version also has a new feature. If you have several messages in a conversation/thread, they will be recognized and you can focus in on just on that subset by hitting the ThreadZoom button (only shown when conversation message selected). That will enable you to quickly traverse the thread and delete/reply as appropriate.

The other messages will still be selected but you will need to exit/re-run OutLinker to add them back into the rotation when you are done with the thread.

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:37:27 +0000

In the meantime, the best strategy for OutLinker compatibility would be to add extra entries in your MindReaderConfig.mmap to catch codes coming over from OutlLinker. For example, if you have "hoy" as today in the due date branch, add an additional "today" branch, etc.

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:05:14 +0000

Que es una buena idea. Hay planes para configuraciones MindReader en holandés, francés y español. Para aquellos que para funcionar correctamente, necesita OutLinker de cambiar también.

Programming the entire interface and functionality to be language independent will take some work. The first priority should probably be to adapt the keywords being set [today -> hoy] by the buttons so they are recognized correctly.

There are a couple of potential strategies:
1. We could have a configuration form where user could change the specific
keywords. These could be set by the program for known languages.
2. We could open the mindreaderconfig map and use it in reverse to "learn" the keywords in use by looking at the notes.
3. We could embed the language in the VB code and selectively activate it with a compilation or configuration switch, or by including different versions of a module in setup for different languages.

Are there particular language configuration options you really need configurable in the near term to work with your system?

By: gmmazza

gmmazza — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:50:04 +0000

Hi AO, I find outlinker great, but I would like to see some kind of custom config file like the one in mindreader, for us, non English speakers. That will make Outlinker much more useful. Specially now that you added buttons. Grat work and ultra fast response to all the errors.

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:28:11 +0000

Mark — Sorry about that. I had initially not realized that deleting nonexistent settings would throw an error and hadn't trapped it everywhere. I appreciate everyone's patience in this upgrade. The transition to registry storage had quite a bit of code revision associated with it (net -10%) and I need to keep code workable for people in varous states of fresh-install/upgrade mode. Try the latest version which should fix this issue.

By: Mark Bloodgood

Mark Bloodgood — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:38:20 +0000

Outlinker.exe fails to move or create settings in the registry. I stop with the runtime error 5: "DeleteSetting OutLinkerRegName, OutLInkerRegPref, "ArchiveFolder"
This line is repeated twice in the subroutine and it is stopping at the first instance.
The orginal Outlinker Settings Note only has three entries left:
underinbox:0
gmailstore:imap. . . . (I don't have gmail)
ArchiveFolder: Outlinker Archive

The only other thing I can think to mention is that the Outlook Program is on C:, but the message folder, My Documents, GyroQ, etc. are on D:\

Thanks for any help you can provide,

–Mark

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:02:10 +0000

Problem solved – you were exactly correct. The other difference is that I am on a laptop and moved from being docked with multiple monitors to undocked. I had Outlook and therefore Outlinker running on one of the secondary monitors when I was docked.

Thanks again.

Ron

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:21:15 +0000

New version without the stray dialog box uploaded this morning.

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:16:09 +0000

Ron — One possible problem could be that the form remembers its last location and due to a change in screen resolution (or non use of dual screen) it is trapped off your screen. I just uploaded a new version that tries to reset with each use.

Eventually it should check keep this sticky unless it determines it is not visible.

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:21:32 +0000

Hi Ron — It wouldn't be related to emptying the queue. I'm not sure what is happening. Did you install with outlinker.exe or manually?

Could you try opening the macro in the macro editor and then hitting F8 repeatedly to "step into" program to see what line it is getting in trouble on (or if it is looping).

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:52:23 +0000

There is one message in my GyroQ Queue so Outlinker did work once after emptying my queue – I processed that message as a one off.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:34:23 +0000

Okay, now I have a REALLY perplexing problem. Everything was working fine – REALLY fine – this morning and I blew through about 100 emails. This afternoon I can't get the form to come up. When I try to start OutLinker the current message opens and that is all – the form never appears and Outlook locks up. I have to kill Outlook using the task manager. I have no idea what is going on. The only thing I can think of is that this started after I emptied my GyroQ Queue.

Ron

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:51:22 +0000

Thanks Ron — You are one step ahead of me! That has been a nagging issue I hadn't gotten around to tracking down but had just made it to the top of my list.

It was due to a bug in the logic around trying to bring you back to the last message you were working on. If that message is being deleted it needs to account for that when it gets run again. The latest uploaded version has some fixes that should eliminate it.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:02:07 +0000

I am regularly getting caught in a loop with the message "You are at bottom of message list. Start over at top". Clicking "Yes" just repeats the message. Clicking "No" clears the message and brings up the stats pop up but restarting Outlinker returns me to the message. The only way I have found to break the loop is to shut down Outlook completely and restart it.

Ron

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:35:42 +0000

Another updated posted this morning to address runtime error issues experienced by some.

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:26:14 +0000

A new outlinker.exe is uploaded to the beta link that should fix the runtime error issue, but let me know what people experience. Upgrade related code is hard to test as I don't have machines is various states.

Marco — Outlinker just processes the selected messages, so if you have selected the message resulting from the search, it should work the way you want. I just tested and it seemed fine. Can you give it another try?

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:39:35 +0000

Marco
re: Runtime error

sorry about that. I missed some initialization in the upgrade code. I didn't have a chance to fix the setup program this morning. I added some lines to the Outlinker.bas file on the macro page on the wiki to address it. I'll fix the setup this evening.

http://wiki.activityowner.com/index.php?title=Outlinker.bas

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:51:49 +0000

I tend to not include links to all my messages in mindmaps – only ones I want to track progress on. Sometimes I find out at a later stage that I would still like to track it. To get to the relevant message I use a search in Outlook…
To allow adding a link while reading the message I also added the OutLinker macro button in the email form in Outlook. This was working fine until last Friday, but somehow with the new OutLinker this is no longer possible (it jumps to the first item in my intray).
Is it possible to continue the previous behaviour? Now, as a workaround, I use search to get to the correct message, write down the details (date/time and subject) and then scroll to the correct message in my MainArchive …

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:56:43 +0000

Ouch, I'm getting a run-time error 94 (invalid use of null) on line 21 – setboolean "attachmsg", attachCheckBox.value.
I don't see the form after clicking the outlinker button.

Not sure whether this is relevant:this is the first time I run OutLinker after the upgrade to the "registry version".

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:48:54 +0000

OK — I uploaded a fresh copy to beta download (and the forms and code to the wiki for manual upgraders).

New Features (reflected on new picture in blog entry above):

* Removed limit on selected messages (people processing their sent items were running into 600 message limit).

* Made options to put message in note and to attach message as a file sticky on main form (put message in note option was on options page).

* Turn timer red if you run over 2 minutes between processing messages. You have to mouse over the form to get it to update.

* Limit message size in GyroQ transfers to 10,000 characters. There have been occasional reports of GyroQ queue failures with extremely large messages. This may guard against that. I found 93% of messages in my archive were smaller than this.

*Trapped error whereby last use date value coming from registry was not empty.

Keep the comments and error reports coming.