Folder Home Page

[BryanC]

Hey Everyone - thanks in advance for the help.

I'm working on an existing addin that was written for outlook 2003. It took
advantage of folder home pages by displaying many of the pages in html by
setting a folder home page. Their look is similar to the Outlook today page.

My Questions is, since outlook 2007 does not allow setting folder home pages
anymore due to security reasons, is there any way to accomplish the same view
without using folder home pages. It's possible to overwrite this setting in
the registry (thanks to some posts from Sue Mosher), but this is definitely
not optimal since is re introduces a security hole.

Is it possible to display a custom view when you click on a folder which
displays a view with just one big ie control/or html control in it (where i
can dump my html).

For clarity here is an example structure

Main Folder (Main store)
- Category 1
-- To do today
-- To do tomorrow
-- To do last week

Clicking on Category 1 would bring up a Category 1 page (looks like outlook
today page).

Thanks for the help,
Bryan

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You can use a folder home page in Outlook 2007, I do that sometimes. Just
use the Outlook View Control to display what you want. There's information
on using that at www.outlookcode.com.

If you look at the Object Browser in Outlook 2007 you don't see some of the
home page properties on the Folder object unless you display hidden items in
the Object Browser.

 

[BryanC]

Hey Ken,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

The problem is that my custom addin uses a non default store which in
Outlook 2007, does not allow Folder Home Pages. If there was a flag i could
set to allow this functionality just on my custom store, that would be great.
I don't believe this is possible though unfortunately and i'd like to find a
way to get basically the same view, while still using the Outlook View
Control.

Thanks,
Bryan C

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

If this is a custom MAPI store then you should post in the
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.messaging group and see if the Extended
MAPI experts there can help.