New to VBA and not sure where to start

[ChicagoMike]

Hello,

I am new to the forum and very new to VBA. Basically I am just looking for a place to start. We do many events which include recording meetings. Thus we have an online calendar with info on each meeting.

I want to be able to:
Prompt the user to insert a unique ID which goes on the back end of a URL that opens in IE
Takes the data that I need from the page such as email, meeting title, date and time.
Create an outlook invite with the standard text we put into the body.
Then the user can review the meeting invite and hit send if all the info is correct.

Is the doable in VBA? Seems like it would be a perfect fit. I have been reading a book on coding VBA but is such a slow read. Is there a better way to learn this or should I push on?

My experience with coding is not extensive, but I know Javascript, PHP, and HTML very well so I see some similarities, but my attention span for this book is really testing me. In the past I've learned code by creating, not by reading, but I am also having a hard time finding a launchpad.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.
Mike

[ranman256]

Sounds like you'd have a box for their ID, and a button to start the app.
The button would run the macro to pull the URL data
then connect to Outlook and create the eVite.
(see some code blocks below..these dont do EXACTLY what you want but its door to get you in.)

  '--- SEND AN EMAIL

Public Function EmailO(ByVal pvTo, ByVal pvSubj, ByVal pvBody, ByVal pvFile) As Boolean
Dim oApp As Outlook.Application
Dim oMail As Outlook.MailItem
On Error GoTo ErrMail
Set oApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set oMail = oApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With oMail
    .To = pvTo
    .Subject = pvSubj
    If Not IsNull(pvBody) Then .Body = pvBody
    .Attachments.Add pvFile, olByValue, 1
    .Send
End With
EmailO = True
Set oMail = Nothing
Set oApp = Nothing
Exit Function
ErrMail:
MsgBox Err.Description, vbCritical, Err
Resume Next
End Function

  '--- PULL DATA FROM WEB SITE

Function ExecuteWebRequest(ByVal url As String) As String
Dim oXHTTP As Object
If InStr(1, url, "?", 1) <> 0 Then
    url = url & "&cb=" & Timer() * 100
Else
    url = url & "?cb=" & Timer() * 100
End If
Set oXHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
oXHTTP.Open "GET", url, False
oXHTTP.send
ExecuteWebRequest = oXHTTP.responseText
Set oXHTTP = Nothing
End Function

[ChicagoMike]

That is a great start! Thanks, I'm sure I will be back with more questions.

Cheers,
Mike