Creating mail folders via backend and bringing them to the ui

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Hi there,

I need to create a number of folders in the mail database via backend and make them immediatly available for users to drag and drop without having to exit the mail database. I do not think we can do it with any version of Lotus Notes - not even in R8. But who knows! perhaps via DXL, or some other trick that someone might have used.

How this would work?

  • User clicks on a button (or drop down option from the action menu.

  • Selects from given list a name of a folder.

  • The folder is created via LS.

  • The folder appears ready to be used in the outline.

very much appreciated!

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Subject: Creating mail folders via backend and bringing them to the ui

Creating a folder is not difficult. It can be done in Lotusscript, with DXL and with the C API. But showing it to the user is different.

I suspect that folders can be made visible (as opposed to views, which cannot be made visible directly), since a user can move a message to a newly created folder and see it immediatly. But adding a folder to an outline and make it visible directly though this outline does not work.