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Drag and drop Outlook folder to LF

asked on April 24, 2015

It doesn't seem possible to drag and drop an Outlook folder directly from Outlook to Laserfiche. It seems you must select all the emails within the folder and drag them but this can be cumbersome for mailboxes with several hundred folders, especially if they contain subfolders.

Short of creating the folders in advance is there any workaround for this, or plan to change the behaviour in the future?

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replied on April 24, 2015

Nigel - 

I don't think it's even possible to drag & drop Outlook folders directly to a Windows folder, so I don't know if it's possible to implement this for Laserfiche...

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replied on April 27, 2015

Hey Nigel!

The Laserfiche Outlook ribbon has a button that allows you to save emails straight to the folder that is currently open in the Client:

You can also select more than one email to store into Laserfiche.

Hope that helps!

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replied on April 28, 2015

As Jim says, you cannot drag and drop a folder out of Outlook to your desktop, so this seems to be a MS Office limitation rather than a Laserfiche issue.

 

I would suggest looking into 3rd party tools in order to bulk import emails.

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replied on April 28, 2015

The extra bit of functionality required is for Laserfiche to create the folder/subfolder structure during the import - they want to have to manually create the folders in advance. They are comfortable dragging and dropping en masse (or using the ribbon) but in this case they simply want to import the folder structure and all email contained within.

 

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replied on April 28, 2015

Hi Nigel,

I looked into this once myself. If you create a Laserfiche integrated Outlook Email Provider, with C++ or Delphi, you can add the functionality.

Basically it would allow you add Laserfiche (and it's folders) as a node, similar to an email account, displaying all of the LF folders and any functionality you cared to add. 

-Ben

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