Outlook: Creating Your Own Outlook Today Page (Part 2)

April 18th, 2008

If you are making your own Outlook Today page, then these additional snippets of code are sure to be of use to you. You can add the following folders: Sent Items, RSS Feeds, and Search Folders. You can even add some Google Gadgets to spice things up.

Sent Items

<OBJECT classid=CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046 id=ViewCtlFolder width="600" height="650">
<param name="Folder" value="Sent Items">
<param name="Namespace" value="MAPI">
<param name="Restriction" value><param name="DeferUpdate" value="0"></OBJECT>

RSS Feeds (change Digital Streets to the name of the desired feed)

<OBJECT classid=CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046 id=ViewCtlFolder width="600" height="650">
<param name="Folder" value="RSS Feeds\Digital Streets">
<param name="Namespace" value="MAPI">
<param name="Restriction" value><param name="DeferUpdate" value="0"></OBJECT>

Search Folders (change Tech-Recipes to the name of the Search Folder)

<OBJECT classid=CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046 id=ViewCtlFolder width="600" height="650">
<param name="Folder" value="Search Folders\Tech-Recipes">
<param name="Namespace" value="MAPI">
<param name="Restriction" value><param name="DeferUpdate" value="0"></OBJECT>

Search Folders in a Personal Folder (PST)

<OBJECT classid=CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046 id=ViewCtlFolder width="600" height="650">
<param name="Folder" value="\\PersonalFolderName\Search Folders\SearchFolderName">
<param name="Namespace" value="MAPI">
<param name="Restriction" value><param name="DeferUpdate" value="0"></OBJECT>

Another addition you can make to spice up your Outlook Today page is adding Google Gadgets. Simply find the Gadget you want, click the associated Add to your webpage button, adjust the settings to meet your needs and finally copy and paste the generated code into your Outlook Today page. This is an easy way to add clocks, weather, news feeds, etc.

One other thing to keep in mind, you don’t have to use Outlook to access the page, you can open it up in Internet Explorer. This makes for some cool ways to integrate Outlook elements on your intranet. The user has to have Outlook installed and configured on their system to view their email, calendar, etc. in the webpage.

Posted by shamanstears Filed in Microsoft Office

10 Responses to “Outlook: Creating Your Own Outlook Today Page (Part 2)”

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  3. seamonkey420 Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    @shaman

    i wonder.. is there a way to perhaps implement an RSS weather feed into that today screen? hmm.. i may need to play and play some more!!

    great posts!!!!!!!

  4. seamonkey420 Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    @shaman.. yup.. i need to read the full post.. hehe.. :P

  5. John Ritterbush Says:
    April 29th, 2008 at 10:28 am

    Awesome tips.

    I even added links to my commonly used email templates so all I have to do is click the link on my custom Today page and it opens the template. It saves me so much time.

    Thanks again.

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  7. Mauricio Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 10:32 am

    Great tips.
    When I open my Outlook Today I see a summary of my calendar and my tasks. Can I include these views in my customized page? I want to create a page with summary of Calendar + summary of tasks + detailed email filter.

    Thanks.

  8. Belinda Says:
    June 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    This is great stuff. I am trying to use it in a webpart on our MOSS 2007 (Sharepoint) intranet. I have it pointing to a Public folder that contains contacts and am trying to get it to default to the Address Card view. Whenever I put a view parameter into the code it switches to displaying the inbox. My code is:

    IF I add a line

  9. Vynka Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Is it possible to draw from two different sets of folders? For example my outlook has an excahnge mailbox as well as a .pst mailbox for personal use - the code snippets give me my exchange folders - Id like to be able to see folders from my personal folders too - any ideas?

  10. shamanstears Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    @Vynka You should be able to use <param name="Folder" value="\\PersonalFolderName\FolderName">

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