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Save/attach from emails in MS Outlook 2016 to SharePoint site
Hi there
Appreciate this has been discussed before, but are there any updates planned to the interaction between Outlook and SharePoint?
We're rolling out SharePoint as a file store for o...
- This is now possible using the Outlook Desktop and modern browsers - take a look: https://jonasbjerke.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/you-can-now-drag-e-mails-from-outlook-directly-to-sharepoint/
Hi Julian,
No out of the box, but you can easily develop a "Remote Event Receiver" that is triggered whenever you archive an e-mail. That way, you can extract the metadata from the email and save it as metadata in SharePoint, but also force a naming convention (eg. rename the file immediately) in SharePoint.
That way, the end user doesn't have to do anything but dragging the e-mail to the desired location in SharePoint.
If you are limited to using older versions of Outlook (that doesn't have this new capability) you might want to buy an "old school" add-in (VSTO) say Harmon.IE for example.
No out of the box, but you can easily develop a "Remote Event Receiver" that is triggered whenever you archive an e-mail. That way, you can extract the metadata from the email and save it as metadata in SharePoint, but also force a naming convention (eg. rename the file immediately) in SharePoint.
That way, the end user doesn't have to do anything but dragging the e-mail to the desired location in SharePoint.
If you are limited to using older versions of Outlook (that doesn't have this new capability) you might want to buy an "old school" add-in (VSTO) say Harmon.IE for example.
Thanks for the reply Jonas.
Does the "Remote Event Receiver" code sit in SharePoint or in Outlook?
It is something that I'm not aware of but would like to investigate.
Does the "Remote Event Receiver" code sit in SharePoint or in Outlook?
It is something that I'm not aware of but would like to investigate.
- Neither of those. An Remote Event Receiver (or a webhook) is running outside of SharePoint, but triggers on events from within SharePoint - say a document or e-mail was uploaded. You can then react to that trigger and do whatever you like, for example extracting metadata from a MSG file. You can read more about Remote Event Receivers https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/use-remote-event-receivers-in-sharepoint
You are also welcome to reach out. We do develop these kind of things for a lot of companies and this scenario is definately something we have done before.