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Create a Marketing Campaign

Outlook Developer Reference
Create a Marketing Campaign

The following C# and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) examples show how to create and define a Marketing Campaign object.

  private void CreateMarketingCampaign()
        {
            Outlook.ApplicationClass _app = new Outlook.ApplicationClass();
            Outlook.Application olApp = (Outlook.Application)_app;
            Outlook.NameSpace olNameSpace = _app.GetNamespace("MAPI");
            Outlook.Folders folders = olNameSpace.Session.Folders;
            Outlook.Folder bcmRootFolder = (Outlook.Folder)folders["Business Contact Manager"];
            Outlook.Folder mktgCampFolder = (Outlook.Folder)bcmRootFolder.Folders["Marketing Campaigns"];
            Outlook.UserProperty userProp;
        Outlook.TaskItem taskItem = (Outlook.TaskItem)mktgCampFolder.Items.Add("IPM.Task.BCM.Campaign");
        taskItem.Subject = "New Marketing Campaign";

        if (taskItem.UserProperties["Campaign Code"] == null)
        {
            userProp = taskItem.UserProperties.Add("Campaign Code", Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlUserPropertyType.olText, false, false);
            userProp.Value = "SP2";
        }

        if (taskItem.UserProperties["Campaign Type"] == null)
        {
            userProp = taskItem.UserProperties.Add("Campaign Type", Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlUserPropertyType.olText, false, false);
            userProp.Value = "Direct Mail Print";
        }

        if (taskItem.UserProperties["Budgeted Cost"] == null)
        {
            userProp = taskItem.UserProperties.Add("Budgeted Cost", Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlUserPropertyType.olCurrency, false, false);
            userProp.Value = 243456;
        }

        if (taskItem.UserProperties["Delivery Method"] == null)
        {
            userProp = taskItem.UserProperties.Add("Delivery Method", Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlUserPropertyType.olText, false, false);
            userProp.Value = "Word Mail Merge";
        }

        taskItem.StartDate = System.DateTime.Parse("4/20/2006");
        taskItem.DueDate = System.DateTime.Parse("5/20/2006");

        taskItem.Save();

    }
  Sub CreateMarketingCampaign()

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace Dim olFolders As Outlook.Folders Dim bcmRootFolder As Outlook.Folder Dim bcmCampaignsFldr As Outlook.Folder Dim newMarketingCampaign As Outlook.TaskItem Dim userProp As Outlook.UserProperty

Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Set objNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set olFolders = objNS.Session.Folders

Set bcmRootFolder = olFolders("Business Contact Manager") Set bcmCampaignsFldr = bcmRootFolder.Folders("Marketing Campaigns")

Set newMarketingCampaign = bcmCampaignsFldr.Items.Add("IPM.Task.BCM.Campaign") newMarketingCampaign.Subject = "Sales Project with Wide World Importers"

If (newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties("Campaign Code") Is Nothing) Then Set userProp = newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties.Add("Campaign Code", olText, False, False) userProp.Value = "SP2" End If

If (newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties("Campaign Type") Is Nothing) Then Set userProp = newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties.Add("Campaign Type", olText, False, False) userProp.Value = "Direct Mail Print" End If

If (newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties("Budgeted Cost") Is Nothing) Then Set userProp = newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties.Add("Budgeted Cost", olCurrency, False, False) userProp.Value = 243456 End If

If (newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties("Delivery Method") Is Nothing) Then Set userProp = newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties.Add("Delivery Method", olText, False, False) userProp.Value = "Word Mail Merge" End If

If (newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties("End Time") Is Nothing) Then Set userProp = newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties.Add("End Time", olDateTime, False, False) userProp.Value = "3/10/2006" End If

If (newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties("Start Time") Is Nothing) Then Set userProp = newMarketingCampaign.UserProperties.Add("Start Time", olDateTime, False, False) userProp.Value = "3/9/2006" End If

newMarketingCampaign.Save

Set newMarketingCampaign = Nothing Set bcmCampaignsFldr = Nothing Set bcmRootFolder = Nothing Set olFolders = Nothing Set objNS = Nothing Set olApp = Nothing End Sub

See Also

Select a Marketing Campaign | Edit a Marketing Campaign | Delete a Marketing Campaign | Print Total Accounts | Print Total Business Contacts | Print Total Opportunities | Print Total Leads | Office Developer Center: Outlook 2007