Business Project Object

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Outlook Developer Reference
Business Project Object

The Business Project object represents a record that connects the relevant items related to a project, such as tasks, files, messages, calendar items, sales orders, and project issues. By managing these item, you manage the project.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Outlook 2007

Requirements

Business Contact Manager for Outlook

Remarks

Managing a project, particularly in the service industry, is essential for small businesses. Yet, small business owners have few integrated tools to assist them in delivering on-time, profitable projects. Unlike an opportunity, you can associate a project with multiple Account or Business Contact objects, but you can only assign one primary account or contact. You can add one or more Project Task objects to a business project.

Using the Outlook object model, you can programmatically:

  • Create a new business project
  • Select an existing business project
  • Edit a project properties
  • Delete a business project

The Business Projects folder contains business project records.

Example

The following C# and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) examples show how to create a new object instance of type IPM.Task.BCM.Project.

C# 
  
Outlook.TaskItem newProject = (Outlook.TaskItem)projects.Items.Add("IPM.Task.BCM.Project");
Visual Basic for Applications 
  
Set newProject = bcmProjFolder.Items.Add("IPM.Task.BCM.Project")

User Properties (Business Contact Manager only)

Activity Priority, Associated Contacts, Created By, Grand Parent Entity EntryID, Modified By, ParentDisplayName, Parent Entity EntryID, Project Due Date, Project Start Date, Project Status, Project Type

Parent Objects

TaskItem Object

For more information, see the Outlook 2007 Developer Reference by going to the MSDN Office Developer Center Web site.

See Also

Create a Business Project linked to a Primary Account | Create a Business Project linked to a Primary Business Contact | Select a Business Project | Edit a Business Project | Delete a Business Project