Using Folder Home Pages

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[ Team LiB ]Using Folder Home PagesUse folder home pages to replace the view on a folder with a Web page, or use theOutlook 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 homepage is usually the best because it wont cause Outlook to hang if your Internetconnection is slow. Outlook Today is a folder home page, but the folder its in has security restrictions on the type of controls that will display. Folders dont have the same restrictions and, as a result, they can display controls that Outlook Today cannot. For this reason, its 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 Propertiesfrom 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 (seeFigure 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.When you set a local file as your folder home page, Outlook will complain aboutupdating offline files. Choose OK to close the dialog and click OK again to close theproperty sheet, or click Cancel if Outlook continues to complain. The local file is set asyour 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 Calendars Navigation Pane, the folder contents display.Although you can use any HTML page for the folder home page, you might like to use apage displaying other Outlook folders. Using the Outlook View control, you can displaythe 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 parametersto suit and replace Calendar with the folder you want to display. Save the text with an.HTML extension and use it for your folder home page (see Figure 3.16).My Folder Home Page 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:. For more information about using the Outlook View control to create 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 Figure3.16. Changing the views for additional folders used in a View control is a bit moredifficult; in many cases you can right-click on the field names in the View control andchoose a new view. For a calendar, right-click anywhere on the calendar and choose Goto Date. Select a different view from the Go to Date menu.[ Team LiB ]