How to do Filenet & Outlook integration

Question

Any one have any idea? Or is there any tutorials and documentation on this? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Assuming that you are talking about FileNet P8, then I can provide some information. I had to do a similar thing a couple of years ago.

First of all you need to get good with MS Office VSTO. More information here.

Second you have to get good with using the FileNet P8 .NET Assembly or the Web Services API. Both work well with Visual Studio 2005.

What you are trying to do is create an Outlook toolbar or button and run code that takes an Outlook message (.msg) and archive it to FileNet.

Let me know if you need code examples on something specific like adding a document to P8, or getting an msg file out of an Outlook message etc.

To deploy this whole thing, I used ClickOnce which integrates very well.