How to add voting buttons to a post in a public folder

[Ani]

How can i add voting buttons to a post in a public folder like I can to an
email msg? If this is infact possible, how would I be able to dynamically
display the results when somebody opens the post. We are using Office 2003
and Exchange 2003

For example, if you have a public folder that is about Restaurant reviews.
Somebody can create a post with the review and it should automatically have
voting buttons so everyone else who has been to the restaurant can simply
cast their vote rather than responding to the thread (a really long thread
makes it hard to get a picture of how many are voting for or against it).
When someone else comes back to look at the post, they should be able to see
what the votes tally is.

Perhaps there is another way of achieving the same functionality. If so,
please let me know.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

My favorite scheme for this task is to use voting buttons -- mainly for the
right-click context menu choices they add -- but use code to set not the
subject but a custom property named Vote that's already created in the
folder. Here's an example of how that can work:

Function Item_CustomAction(ByVal Action, ByVal NewItem)
Const olText = 1
Set objProp = NewItem.UserProperties.Add("Vote", olText)
objProp.Value = Action.Name
NewItem.Display
Set objProp = Nothing
' close the current item
Item.Close 0
End Function

I have my view set up with two levels of grouping -- by Conversation and by
the Vote field. When all items are marked unread, I can collapse all groups
and see the vote tallies under each conversation.