AppointmentItem.MeetingStatus Property

Outlook Developer Reference

Returns or sets an OlMeetingStatus constant specifying the meeting status of the appointment. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.MeetingStatus

expression   A variable that represents an AppointmentItem object.

Remarks

Use this property to make a MeetingItem object available for the appointment.

Example

This Visual Basic for Applications example uses CreateItem to create an appointment and uses MeetingStatus to set the meeting status to "Meeting" to turn it into a meeting request with both a required and an optional attendee.

Visual Basic for Applications
  Sub CreateAppt()
    Dim myItem As Object
    Dim myRequiredAttendee, myOptionalAttendee, myResourceAttendee As Outlook.Recipient
    
    Set myItem = Application.CreateItem(olAppointmentItem)
    myItem.MeetingStatus = olMeeting
    myItem.Subject = "Strategy Meeting"
    myItem.Location = "Conference Room B"
    myItem.Start = #9/24/1997 1:30:00 PM#
    myItem.Duration = 90
    Set myRequiredAttendee = myItem.Recipients.Add("Nate Sun")
    myRequiredAttendee.Type = olRequired
    Set myOptionalAttendee = myItem.Recipients.Add("Kevin Kennedy")
    myOptionalAttendee.Type = olOptional
    Set myResourceAttendee = myItem.Recipients.Add("Conference Room B")
    myResourceAttendee.Type = olResource
    myItem.Display
End Sub

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