Print Current Week's Calendar

Print Current Week's Calendar

Desktop users usually have daily routines, such as printing their weekly calendar, that helps them keep themselves productive and organized. Create desktop flows that automate these repetitive tasks and make your workweek easier.

What Print Current Week's Calendar can do

• Build Paths (Core.Programming.Function) — sets msg.desktop_folder to <$Home$>\Desktop and msg.image_path to <desktop>\calendar.jpg.
• Launch Outlook (Core.Process.StartProcess, optBackground: true) — launches OUTLOOK.EXE from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16 → msg.outlook_pid.
• Wait For Outlook (Robomotion.WindowsAutomation.WaitWindow) — selector //Window[contains(@Name,"Outlook")], optCondition: appear, optTimeout: 60.
• Switch To Calendar (Robomotion.WindowsAutomation.SendKey) — sends {Ctrl}+2 to the Outlook window.
• Switch To Work Week View (Robomotion.WindowsAutomation.SendKey, continueOnError: true) — sends {Ctrl}+{Alt}+2.
• Wait For Repaint (Core.Programming.Sleep, optDuration: 2).
• Capture Window (Robomotion.WindowsAutomation.Screenshot, optFullScreen: false) — saves the Outlook window to msg.image_path.
• Build Print Args (Core.Programming.Function) — sets msg.print_args to ['-NoProfile', '-Command', 'Start-Process -FilePath "<image>" -Verb Print'].
• Send To Printer (Core.Process.StartProcess, optBackground: true, continueOnError: true) — inFilePath: powershell, inArguments: msg.print_args.
• Wait Print Spool (Core.Programming.Sleep, optDuration: 4), then Delete Screenshot (Core.FileSystem.Delete, continueOnError: true).
• Build Kill Args + Close Outlook (Core.Process.StartProcess → taskkill /F /IM outlook.exe, continueOnError: true), then Core.Flow.Stop.

Behind the scenes

• The "Switch To Work Week View" step uses continueOnError: true so the flow still proceeds on Outlook builds where Ctrl+Alt+2 is absent or unbound.
• The flow intentionally prints an image of the current Outlook window (via a screenshot sent through the shell Print verb), not a vector export of the calendar.
• A 2-second sleep after the view switch gives Outlook time to repaint before Screenshot runs; a 4-second sleep after print keeps the image on disk long enough for the spooler to read it before Delete removes it.
• Outlook is closed via taskkill /F, so unsaved items in other Outlook windows would be lost — the flow assumes Outlook was launched solely for this run.