Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange, Second Edition (DV-MPS Programming)
One of the great things about the new version of Outlook Web Access is that it lets you customize the client using either Web Storage System forms, which we'll look at momentarily, or by simply adding some parameters to the URL you pass to OWA. In this section, we'll take a quick look at the parameters you can pass to OWA to make it perform the functionality you want. Table 19-3 shows these parameters.
Table 19-3. The parameters you can use to customize Outlook Web Access.
| Command | Supported Parameters | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cmd= | Navbar | Displays only the left-hand navigation of OWA, including the Outlook bar, Outlook icons, and the folder list. |
| Contents | Displays only the right-hand contents of OWA without navigation bar. | |
| New | Creates a new item in the folder. | |
| Options | Displays the Options page. | |
| Open | Opens an item for reading. Be careful because e-mail messages end with .EML. If you pass just the subject of the email message without the trailing .EML, OWA will not be able to find the item. | |
| Edit | Opens an item for editing. | |
| Reply, ReplyAll, Forward | Performs the specific operation on the item. | |
| View= | A string that specifies a view in the folder—for example, <;$QD>By Conversation Topic<;$QD>, <;$QD>Daily<;$QD>, <;$QD>Monthly<;$QD>. | Shows the items in the folder using the view you specify. |
| M= | A number that corresponds to a month | The month value you want to display. |
| D= | A number that corresponds to a day | The day value you want to display. |
| Y= | A number that corresponds to a year | The year value you want to display. |
The Training application takes advantage of the cmd=Contents, the view=, and the date semantics, such as m=, d=, and y=. For example, this URL from the Training application shows a public folder calendar with a monthly view, without the navigation bar:
http://server/pfpath/?cmd=contents&view=monthly&d=15&m=4&y=2000You can take these URL parameters and use them as hyperlinks, or even as sources for frames within your applications. This extensibility of OWA allows you to quickly add Web services, such as calendaring, without having to write a single line of code.