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I've followed a solution found at superuser for capturing the unique identifier (UID) of an Outlook message stored in a PST file, and creating a org link of the form:

[[outlook:UID][Message subject]]

Selecting this link in emacs opens the message in Outlook using a little Lisp stored as org-outlook.el in my .emacs.d/lisp directory, so I can access specific messages right from org. Really nice solution for integrating emails that I need to reference right from my notes.

The problem is that I also like to export my notes as html using org-html-export through C-c C-e h o, but the Outlook links get rendered as:

<a href="UID">Message subject</a>

which tries (and fails, of course) to open a local file named "UID" instead of:

<a href="outlook:UID">Message subject</a>

which my browser correctly passes off to Outlook.

Is there a way for me to custom define the link export format for an outlook: link? Kinda a newbie here, and I couldn't find anything on the topic.

Thanks

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  • Are you using org-add-link-type or org-link-set-parameters in org-outlook.el? The former is deprecated in recent versions of org-mode.
    – NickD
    Commented Oct 2, 2017 at 22:02
  • @Nick - the author of org-outlook.el -- posted a few years back in response to a question on superuser -- used org-add-link-type, which, as for as I saw in the org manual did not have an export: function. So glad you pointed me to the revised capability of org-link-set-parameters - that was the ticket! - I revised org-outlook.el to use follow: and export: and it works like a champ. Thank you so much!
    – kwoodham
    Commented Oct 3, 2017 at 19:27
  • Actually, org-add-link-type takes a second optional argument called export, so you might have been able to do it with that, but it's certainly better to change it to the modern idiom.
    – NickD
    Commented Oct 3, 2017 at 20:51

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See comment from @Nick

For anyone interested; I modified org-outlook.el from what is shown at superuser to be:

;; old: 
;; (org-add-link-type "outlook" 'org-outlook-open)

;; new:
(org-link-set-parameters
 "outlook"
 :follow (lambda (path) (org-outlook-open path))
 :export (lambda (path desc backend)
           (cond
            ((eq 'html backend)
             (format "<a href=\"outlook:%s\">%s</a>" path desc)))))

Thanks again for the hint from @Nick - not sure how to give him credit for the answer since he provided feedback in a comment.

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  • You have given me more than enough credit, given that you did all the work! You might want to add a pointer in the superuser question pointing back to this - and if there is an upstream repo for org-outlook.el, maybe open an issue, pointing back to your solution.
    – NickD
    Commented Oct 3, 2017 at 20:51

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