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In Windows Explorer's View\Choose Details dialog, there are numerous
additional viewable folder property fields available for use beyond the usual
"name, size, type, date modified". You can check their boxes as desired, to
get different or additional columns when you View Details on a folder.
Just wondering if there's a way to rename some of these additional column
names to something more useful, such as, renaming "Owner" to "First" and
renaming Category to "State" and renaming Attributes to "Phone".
Because then you can create a new empty notepad file for each employee in
your company, using their last names for the file names. Then, store the
first name, state, and phone number in those additional file properties for
each file. You end up with a "Company Phone Directory" folder which, when
openend by anyone on the network, displays your entire corporate phone
directory. The advantage is that everyone in the company can open that
folder simultaneously and click on any column to sort the whole directory by
last, first, phone, state, etc. whatever way each individual person wants,
without affecting anyone else's preferred view/sort order.
Why make everyone launch a complete program like Excel or Word, consuming a
lot of precious RAM on innumerable desktop PCs, just to access a file that
can only be edited by one person at a time, when instead you can instantly
and constantly publish the whole phone directory using nothing more than
Windows Explorer itself, letting everyone have simultaneous full access to
all the data, displayed any way each individual wants, with one click?
Being able to rename the columns for that folder would, of course, be a nice
touch. Nevertheless, you can still use this idea; just ignore the
Windows-standard column titles. The end result is being able to sort the
whole 'phone directory' with one click on any column header by last name,
first name, state, phone number, etc for for lightning fast lookups. This
same concept works for any kind of workgroup-shared 'list'.
Only minor hassle: rolling it out to the workgroup, each person has to know
how to go into that folder and check the appropriate additional file property
check boxes on their own computer, to get the 'phone directory' columns to
display on their PC...the column setups are stored in their own user settings
somewhere, not in the 'phone directory' folder itself. But that's not a big
show-stopper.
Posted FWIW in case it helps somebody...
additional viewable folder property fields available for use beyond the usual
"name, size, type, date modified". You can check their boxes as desired, to
get different or additional columns when you View Details on a folder.
Just wondering if there's a way to rename some of these additional column
names to something more useful, such as, renaming "Owner" to "First" and
renaming Category to "State" and renaming Attributes to "Phone".
Because then you can create a new empty notepad file for each employee in
your company, using their last names for the file names. Then, store the
first name, state, and phone number in those additional file properties for
each file. You end up with a "Company Phone Directory" folder which, when
openend by anyone on the network, displays your entire corporate phone
directory. The advantage is that everyone in the company can open that
folder simultaneously and click on any column to sort the whole directory by
last, first, phone, state, etc. whatever way each individual person wants,
without affecting anyone else's preferred view/sort order.
Why make everyone launch a complete program like Excel or Word, consuming a
lot of precious RAM on innumerable desktop PCs, just to access a file that
can only be edited by one person at a time, when instead you can instantly
and constantly publish the whole phone directory using nothing more than
Windows Explorer itself, letting everyone have simultaneous full access to
all the data, displayed any way each individual wants, with one click?
Being able to rename the columns for that folder would, of course, be a nice
touch. Nevertheless, you can still use this idea; just ignore the
Windows-standard column titles. The end result is being able to sort the
whole 'phone directory' with one click on any column header by last name,
first name, state, phone number, etc for for lightning fast lookups. This
same concept works for any kind of workgroup-shared 'list'.
Only minor hassle: rolling it out to the workgroup, each person has to know
how to go into that folder and check the appropriate additional file property
check boxes on their own computer, to get the 'phone directory' columns to
display on their PC...the column setups are stored in their own user settings
somewhere, not in the 'phone directory' folder itself. But that's not a big
show-stopper.
Posted FWIW in case it helps somebody...