Brass Plugins: Outlooker
Outlook Data Setup
Outlooker directly interfaces with Outlook to display
your tasks, email, calendar items and more. The Outlook Data Config
window is how you tell Outlooker exactly what you want to see.
The top half of the window controls what folders you
want to see in your display panel. The bottom half controls exactly
what data you want to display.
Adding and Removing Folders
Outlooker comes with a basic, default setup. To add
more folders to the display simply click the "Add Folder"
button. The standard Outlook folder picker will appear.
Just click on the folder you want to display then
click OK. Your folder will be added to the folder display list.
You can add the same folder more than once if you want to see multiple
"views" of the data (for example, all active tasks and
all completed tasks from the last 7 days).
To remove a folder click on it in the folder display
list and click OK. It's gone!
Clicking on a folder displays its settings in the
bottom half of the dialog.
Folder Settings
Now you need to configure how your folder should appear.
"Only show a summary of this folder" tells
Outlooker to display a one line summary of the folder contents instead
of the actual contents. Summaries are only available for mail, task
and note folders, mainly because "You have 4,000 appointments"
doesn't help anyone much :-)
"Display a folder name above folder data"
tells Outlooker to put a title above the data, unsurprisingly. If
you leave the "Custom Title" text field blank the title
is the folder name. If it's not blank, your custom title is displayed
instead.
Here's the sample Outlooker screenshot again:
In this screenshot, the very top line has the "Inbox"
and "Tasks" folders configured to show summaries only.
A second "Inbox" folder has then been added with "Display
Folder Name..." ticked but no custom title. On the bottom right
a calendar folder has also been added with "Display Folder
Name..." ticked, and a custom title of "Calendar: Next
7 Days" added.
"Use this query to generate the folder display" is how
you tell Outlooker exactly what data you want to retrieve from Outlook.
The Query Builder page explains
all!
"Sort by" controls the sorting of your data. If you don't
specify anything here Outlooker simply takes a guess at what you
might want. The fields you can select from the dropdown are all
those available in Outlook. A detailed explanation of what these
fields do is on the Query Builder
page.
Once you've made changes to a folder's configuration, click the
"Save Changes" button to commit them. If you switch to
another folder without saving your changes, Outlooker will prompt
you to save or discard them.
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