Programmatically Select Workspace in Outlook

We have an MS Access database which stores certain information related to a client, and use Interwoven to manage all the documents for that client. I created a button that allows a user to select the corresponding Workspace from FileSite, and we use that selection to run Mail Merges, so that documents can be automatically profiled into the correct Workspace.

Anyway, I would like to give the user the ability to click on a button from within the Database and have it switch them to Outlook and automatically select and open the corresponding Workspace. Has anyone done this before, or does anyone have an ideas on how to best implement this?

Thanks!

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jny

We have an MS Access database which stores certain information related to a client, and use Interwoven to manage all the documents for that client. I created a button that allows a user to select the corresponding Workspace from FileSite, and we use that selection to run Mail Merges, so that documents can be automatically profiled into the correct Workspace.

Anyway, I would like to give the user the ability to click on a button from within the Database and have it switch them to Outlook and automatically select and open the corresponding Workspace. Has anyone done this before, or does anyone have an ideas on how to best implement this?

Thanks!

Do you mean to bring up the WorkSite Browse dialog (to select the workspace) from within Access? This depends. If it's possible to reference the WorkSite DLL's for making the appropriate API calls via a COM-AddIn or macro for Access, then in theory you should be able to accomplish this.

If that's not what you mean, then please explain in more details.

WDSI

In Outlook, when you do a Workspace Search the user does a search, gets a list of Workspaces, then selects a Workspace which is put under Recent Workspaces and then selected.

I would like to replicate this behavor from another application (MS Access), basically doing three things:
1) Add a Workspace to Recent Workspaces
2) Switch user's focus to Outlook
3) Select (and possibly expand) the newly added Workspace under Recent Workspaces

Thank you

jny

In Outlook, when you do a Workspace Search the user does a search, gets a list of Workspaces, then selects a Workspace which is put under Recent Workspaces and then selected.

I would like to replicate this behavor from another application (MS Access), basically doing three things:
1) Add a Workspace to Recent Workspaces
2) Switch user's focus to Outlook
3) Select (and possibly expand) the newly added Workspace under Recent Workspaces

Thank you

1) This could be accomplished by the approaches previsouly explained.
2) Not sure what you mean by swithc focus. But if you mean programmatically bring to foreground an instance of FileSite (Outlook) then this is done outside the SDK.
3) Not possible because of 2.

WDSI

So I could add a Workspace to the user's Recent Workspaces list, but bringing the Outlook application to the foreground and then selecting something in Outlook has to be done outside the SDK? Okay, just curious if anyone had done this before I start floundering with code. Smiley Happy

I'll report back if I make any headway with it. Thank you.