How can I get access to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlRuletype (or other namespaces) in WSH, JScript

Question

I have written the WSH script using JScript. I am currently getting in stuck that I cannot refer to the namespace "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlRuletype". The source code is shown below:

var olApp = WScript.CreateObject("Outlook.Application");
var olNS = olApp.Session;
var folder = olNS.Folders("myname@mailserv.com").Folders("Inbox");

CreateRule(olNS);
ShowInbox(folder);

function CreateRule(olNS)
{
    var rules = olNS.DefaultStore.GetRules();

    //Error occurred here..
    //Error:  'Microsoft' is undefined
    //Code:   800A1391
    //Source: Microsoft JScript runtime error
    var opt = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlRuletype.olRuleReceive;

    var newRule = rules.Create("Testing", opt);
}

function ShowInbox(folder)
{
    if (olApp.Explorers.Count == 0)
    {
        folder.Display();
    }
}

Am I correctly referring to the namespace? Thank you for every suggestion in advance.

Answer 1

Windows Script Host and JScript don't know anything about constants in type library enumerations. You need to explicitly define these constants in your script:

var olRuleReceive = 0;
var olRuleSend = 1;

So, have I need to find out about the number of constant value myself? Do you have some way to search that value from MSDN document?

You have several options:

• Look up the constant values in the Outlook developer reference in MSDN.

• Look up the constant values in the VBA Object Browser (see Bill_Stewart's comment).

• Place your code into a Windows Script File (.wsf) and import the Outlook type library using the <reference> element. In this case you can use all Outlook enumeration constants without having to declare them.

  <job>
      <reference object="Outlook.Application"/>
      <script language="JScript">
          WScript.Echo(olRuleSend); // 1
      </script>
  </job>