If you want to use IBM® Content
Navigator for Microsoft Office to
access documents that are stored on an IBM Content
Manager repository, you must specify
the classes that are used when users add email to the repository or
when users create folders.
Before you begin
Before you configure your
IBM Content
Manager repositories for
IBM Content
Navigator for Microsoft Office, you must create or
configure a class for adding email to the repository. You must create
or configure a class with the following properties:
Table 1. Required
properties for a class that can be used when adding email from Microsoft
OutlookMicrosoft Outlook Property |
Repository Property |
Property Type |
Subject |
EmailSubject |
String |
From |
From |
String |
To |
To |
Multi-valued string |
CC |
CarbonCopy |
Multi-valued string |
Sent on |
SentOn |
Date Time |
Received on |
ReceivedOn |
Date Time |
The class that you specify when you configure your IBM Content
Manager repository must use the
property names exactly as they are shown in the Repository Property
column of the table above. If the property names match, IBM Content
Navigator automatically maps Microsoft Outlook properties
to the properties in the class.
About this task
Tip: Users access IBM Content
Navigator for Microsoft Office from a IBM Content
Navigator desktop. If you have
multiple repositories that are associated with the desktop, you should
complete this task for each of the repositories that is associated
with the desktop. If your users access IBM Content
Navigator for Microsoft Office from more than one desktop,
you should complete this task for each of the repositories that is
associated with those desktops.
Procedure
To configure IBM Content
Manager repositories
for IBM Content
Navigator for Microsoft Office:
- Open the administration tool in the web client.
- Click Repositories and select the
repository that you want to configure for IBM Content
Navigator for Microsoft Office. The repository
that you select must be associated with the desktop from which users
access IBM Content
Navigator for Microsoft Office.
- Click Office Properties.
- Specify the class that you want to use when users add email
to the repository from Microsoft Outlook. If you want IBM Content
Navigator for Microsoft Office to automatically map
the Microsoft Outlook properties to properties in the class, you must
specify a class that has the property names in the table above.
- Specify the class that you want to use when users create
folders in IBM Content
Navigator for Microsoft Office.
- Save the changes to the repository.
What to do next
Repeat this task for each repository that is associated
with the desktop or desktops from which users access IBM Content
Navigator for Microsoft Office.