David Swain

I am looking for how to implement the following:

Modify Outlook UI (VSTO, I assume), so the Mailbox view, the navigation pane displays a list of folders, which are not mail folders. They would be folders which represent folders say on our document storage server.

The user should be able to "move" items from say their inbox folder, DRAG AND DROP onto these custom folders mentioned above, then somehow implement code to copy the mail message to the other server.

The requirements are asking to have these custom folders, hopefully inside the Outlook Navigation pane (or at least on left nav ).

My question is what customization concept should I use

My first research (reading only) suggests the usage of a custom task pane, maybe with a tree control. But not sure if I can drag and drop and not sure if I can get the custom task pane to appear in left nav.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for your time.



Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what?

X4U

Hi David,

you can use simple mailfolders also and register for the folder.items.add event.

Then use your code to copy the dropped item to your documentstorage.

There are also events for before item cut / drop as I know.

You can also use a second pst file for your folders - or public folders on exchange to separate the folders from normal folders.

Hope this helps,

greets, Helmut






Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what?

Hiren

Hi Helmut,

I am facing a similar situation.

Can you please elaborate upon your answer

Especially the "You can also use a second pst file for your folders - or public folders on exchange to separate the folders from normal folders" part.

As I would like my Document Store Folder Group to be independent of any other (i.e. start from the root itself).

Thank You in advance, any help would be appreciated.