Setting an Activity's Priority

[Thatch2]

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone have code that shows how to set an Activity's prority? I've tried to look in the docs but can't find anything....

Thanx in advance.

T

[jimdurkin]

T,

This is untested code but wouldn't it be something like this:

Me.Activity.Priority = Me.HostFramework.Activities.GetActivityPriority("High")

-- Jim Durkin

[Thatch2]

Thanx. I'll try that. However, for foreign countries, does the "High" setting apply? Will the priority name in Spain ("Alto") be the same as in the US? I'd think you'd use some sort of number (0 for low, 3 for high, etc.).

Do you have any knowledge on this?

T

[jimdurkin]

T,

I always use a dropdownList control that allows the user to select the priority level.
Since I am adding the priority list from the ACT activities class, it handles Current Culture for me

Here is an example code from The Durkin Toolkit designer which now allows users to customize the "Edit Activity" window:

// Set the priority items from the framework into our custom dropdown

 Dim cDropDownlist As Durkin.Common.Classes.CustomControls.DropDownListDurkincDropDownlist = DirectCast(cControl, Durkin.Common.Classes.CustomControls.DropDownListDurkin)

cDropDownlist.Items.AddRange(Me.HostFramework.Activities.GetActivityPriorities(True))

cDropDownlist.DisplayMember = "Name"  // Current culture handled here !!

// Save the selected priority level from the custom dropdown.

Me.Activity.Priority = DirectCast(cControl, Durkin.Common.Classes.CustomControls.DropDownListDurkin).SelectedItem

Hope this helps.

-- Jim Durkin 

[Thatch2]

J,

Thanx for the info. Unfortunately that won't work on my case. I am developing an application that will take an Outlook Calendar item and put it into ACT! and set the priority in ACT! (the Outlook activities' priorities are 0, 1, 2 for low, medium, high). In the past I could just map these numbers to presets in ACT!. However, now it has been a real pain to find a common ground on the priorities side. The solution with High, Medium, Low may work in the US, but it won't anywhere else where English is not spoken. How does ACT! handle this? If the priorities values are not fixed, that means that anything driven of the pririties list has to be custom programmed and requires a custom setup for each install (which of course causes a plethora of bugs).

Thanx for all the info.

T

[jimdurkin]

T,

I  think that ACT will take a integer 1,2,3 for the priority.

ACTFM.Activities.GetActivityPriority(1)

Hope this helps.

-- Jim Durkin

[Thatch2]

Thanx. I'll give that a try.

T

[Thatch2]

I'm Baaack....

The methodology:

Me.Activity.Priority = Me.HostFramework.Activities.GetActivityPriority("High")

works if you are setting the priority on an activitytemplate. However, if you want to change the activity priority on an existing activity, you get a System.NullReferenceException error.

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

T

[vivek]

Try using the StandardActivityPriority enum since "High" is a std one.

[Thatch2]

What I'm doing is quite straight forward:

Dim MyActivityPriority As Act.Framework.Activities.StandardActivityPriority

             MyActivityPriority = ACTFM.Activities.GetActivityPriority(1) ' Medium priority
             ACTAppointmentObject.Priority = MyActivityPriority

The code above results on a NullReference error and the priority is not set. Any suggestion for a different type of code?

Thanx in advance.

T