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dvanderboom
This can be broken into several small suggestions:
1. Create contact groups, so you can assign individual contacts to an
organization. Maybe make this heirarchy multi-level to represent
departments, divisions, etc.
2. When a contact is selected, a list would be displayed of e-mails that
went to, or came from, that contact, in a separate pane or list view on the
page. If contact groups are affected, then you can select a contact group,
and all e-mails to or from contacts in that group would be displayed. This
would act as a great CRM-type e-mail organizing tool.
3. Associate categories with a particular contact or group. When an e-mail
is received from them, or sent to one of them, an optional prompt could
appear, asking the user to select some or none. These could be projects,
product lines, or other user-defined categories. They would be different for
each contact or group, reducing the need to put a million categories in one
big pot.
4. Set an option to share e-mails to or from selected contacts or contact
groups, so that any e-mails you receive personally will be visible to the
team.
5. Make contacts and contact groups shared, so that you don't have to
navigate annoyingly into the deeply nested public folders section. Make your
locally cached Contacts folder linked with the public folder, and the same
with shared e-mails and other objects. If an object is shared with a team,
display some icon indicated that unobstrusively in a corner of the contact
card or form.
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1. Create contact groups, so you can assign individual contacts to an
organization. Maybe make this heirarchy multi-level to represent
departments, divisions, etc.
2. When a contact is selected, a list would be displayed of e-mails that
went to, or came from, that contact, in a separate pane or list view on the
page. If contact groups are affected, then you can select a contact group,
and all e-mails to or from contacts in that group would be displayed. This
would act as a great CRM-type e-mail organizing tool.
3. Associate categories with a particular contact or group. When an e-mail
is received from them, or sent to one of them, an optional prompt could
appear, asking the user to select some or none. These could be projects,
product lines, or other user-defined categories. They would be different for
each contact or group, reducing the need to put a million categories in one
big pot.
4. Set an option to share e-mails to or from selected contacts or contact
groups, so that any e-mails you receive personally will be visible to the
team.
5. Make contacts and contact groups shared, so that you don't have to
navigate annoyingly into the deeply nested public folders section. Make your
locally cached Contacts folder linked with the public folder, and the same
with shared e-mails and other objects. If an object is shared with a team,
display some icon indicated that unobstrusively in a corner of the contact
card or form.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...cfff83a0&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts