[ Team LiB ]Using Folder Home Pages Use folder home pages to replace the view on a folder with a Web page, or use the Outlook View control to display different Outlook items in a folder
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Using Folder Home Pages
Use folder home pages to replace the view on a folder with a Web page, or use the
Outlook View control to display different Outlook items in a folder
You can choose any Web page for the folder home page, but using a locally stored home page is usually the best because it won't cause Outlook to hang if your Internet
connection is slow
Outlook Today is a folder home page, but the folder it's in has
security restrictions on the type of controls that will display Folders
don't have the same restrictions and, as a result, they can display
controls that Outlook Today cannot For this reason, it's generally
better to leave Outlook Today as is and create folder home pages
when you want to use a custom Outlook Today page
Open the Folder properties sheet by right-clicking on the folder and choosing Properties from the menu Select the Home Page tab and enter the URL or browse for a local file Display the home page by checking Show Home Page by Default for This Folder (see Figure 3.15)
Figure 3.15 Set a local file or page from the Internet as your folder home page Although you can use any file type that displays in Internet Explorer, using HTML-formatted pages is more practical than using text or image files as your home page.
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updating offline files Choose OK to close the dialog and click OK again to close the property sheet, or click Cancel if Outlook continues to complain The local file is set as your folder home page, even though you chose Cancel
To view the contents of the folder, uncheck Show Home Page by Default for This Folder
To clear the filename, choose Restore Defaults
When you assign a folder home page to a Calendar folder, you need to
use the folder list to view the folder home page If you select the folder
from Calendar's Navigation Pane, the folder contents display
Although you can use any HTML page for the folder home page, you might like to use a page displaying other Outlook folders Using the Outlook View control, you can display the contents of any folder in your profile in the folder home page
Enter the following code into a new Notepad file Adjust the height and width parameters
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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My Folder Home Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
<OBJECT id=ViewCtlFolder height=225 width=500
classid=CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046>
<PARAM NAME="Folder" VALUE="Calendar">
<PARAM NAME="Namespace" VALUE="MAPI">
<PARAM NAME="Restriction" VALUE="">
<PARAM NAME="DeferUpdate" VALUE="0"></OBJECT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Figure 3.16 Two Outlook View controls embedded in an HTML page display a
Calendar and Tasks folder as a folder home page
If you show the Web toolbar, you can select a folder, and then copy the
folder path from the Address field to use in the View control Use the
folder names following outlook:
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folder home pages or desktop wallpaper, see
http://www.poremsky.com/AD_DD.htm
The toolbar for the first folder used in your home page is enabled, as shown in Figure 3.16 Changing the views for additional folders used in a View control is a bit more difficult; in many cases you can right-click on the field names in the View control and choose a new view For a calendar, right-click anywhere on the calendar and choose Go
to Date Select a different view from the Go to Date menu
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