Eric, What we are trying to do in particular is to Develop a CF Application that allows the contents of various folders within exchange to be shared through a web based interface. Allow managers to share information about their departments and their interactions with other business units. This information is for a resticted group of people. We have tried to use public exchange folders as the method for sharing this information, but uptake of this method of sharing has been low. We think that using Outlook to access these folders is not quick and easy enough for the target audience, who are very busy and can't be bothered to mess with systems that are not intuitively obvious. One example of the klunky nature of Outlook is that when you open a short cut to a public folder, the view you get does not include the sub folders. Furthermore, when you look at the folder window, you see a huge folder hierarchy, when what you really care about is a very small subset of the folders. Possible Solution: We believe that the exchange folder system is a good platform for managing this data. We would like the interface that we use to access it to be much simpler and friendlier. Thus, I think that the right solution is to build an interface application that make using these exchange folders easier. There are two aspects to ease of use: 1. Finding and retrieving information An interface that just showed you the part of the folder structure that you are interested in, instead of the huge tree of folders, would be easier to use. 2. Adding information Again, the easier it is to add items to these folders, the more likely people will get into the habit of doing so. Emailing items to the folders seems to work better than drag and drop, so perhaps a way of easily managing the email delivery to exchange folders would help. Other feature ideas: I think that some kind of summary information about the contents of the folders would also be very helpful. (eg this folder has 21 items, 5 less than one month old etc) If we could set it up so that you just needed to right click and select "Send to exchange folder," that would help also. This application will continue to grow so any other ideas on how to achieve this or possible addons would be appreciated. Again no matter how small youor experience it may help us. Thanks D Daryl Fullerton, Managing Partner, BizNet Solutions, Allaire Premier Partner (Ireland) 133 - 137 Lisburn Road Belfast BT9 7AG N.Ireland Direct +44 (0) 28 9022 7888 Tel +44 (0) 028 9022 3224 Fax +44 (0) 028 9022 3223 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://www.BizNet-Solutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chairman) Http://www.cfug.ie The Irish Cold Fusion User Group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
