Sharepoint site embedded in Outlook

[Robin Wenham]

Using SBS 2003 SP1, with Outlook 2007.

We use the Help Desk instance that Sharepoint exposes to manage tasks.

Rather than keep a separate browser window open on the desktop I have
created a folder in Outlook and then set the Home Page in Properties for the
folder to be the URL of the sharepoint page. I've set it to show the home
page by default for the folder. This folder is called "Sharepoint Tasks".

That works great - lets me keep the information to hand without having to
have another application open, and keeps it with the source of all my other
information.

BUT (there's always one of these) when I click on a link on the sharepoint
page I get an error message similar to:

Invalid page URL: outlook%3A%5FStore%2FSharepoint%25230Tasks

(outlook | Store | Sharepoint Tasks)
but when I dismiss the message it the follows the links.

So I guess that the questions are:
Can I avoid getting the "Invalid URL" message?
Is there another way of achieving the same thing?
Am I just expecting too much from Outlook?

Thanks in advance

 

[Diane Poremsky]

did you also link the tasks to outlook as task items?

 

[Robin Wenham]

No, it is only a web link enbedded in the Home Page of the folder in the
mail folders.

I wonder if this is related to the target="_self" that is embedded in the
link tag for th link: it does not do it on all links, nor does it do it if I
navigate away from the orginial page.

With the Original page, the page address is outlook:_Store/Sharepoint_Tasks,
which is the URL that is invalid...

So how can I force Outlook to use a sensible page address, or how can I link
the tasks to Outlook?

Thanks in advance

did you also link the tasks to outlook as task items?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Using SBS 2003 SP1, with Outlook 2007.

We use the Help Desk instance that Sharepoint exposes to manage tasks.

Rather than keep a separate browser window open on the desktop I have
created a folder in Outlook and then set the Home Page in Properties for
the folder to be the URL of the sharepoint page. I've set it to show the
home page by default for the folder. This folder is called "Sharepoint
Tasks".

That works great - lets me keep the information to hand without having to
have another application open, and keeps it with the source of all my
other information.

BUT (there's always one of these) when I click on a link on the
sharepoint page I get an error message similar to:

Invalid page URL: outlook%3A%5FStore%2FSharepoint%25230Tasks

(outlook | Store | Sharepoint Tasks)
but when I dismiss the message it the follows the links.

So I guess that the questions are:
Can I avoid getting the "Invalid URL" message?
Is there another way of achieving the same thing?
Am I just expecting too much from Outlook?

Thanks in advance