Who is this article for?

Mail Manager Administrators that want to automate the adding filing locations from an existing project creation system.

Mail Manager must be installed.

At the time of setting up a new project via an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Document Management (DM) system, a call can be made to run MailManager.AppendLocation.exe with a number of parameters. This will append a new filing location for the project to a specified collection file.

The MailManager.AppendLocation.exe can be found in the Mail Manager installation folder e.g.

C:\Program Files\Mail Manager\Support
or
%localappdata%\Mail Manager\Program Files\Support

Required parameters

• Path to MailManager.AppendLocation.exe

• Collection file path

• Location folder path

• Location description

In Use

As a new project is created run a script (e.g. using Shell execute) that calls the MailManager.AppendLocation.exe with the required parameters e.g.

File system example:
“C:\Program Files\Mail Manager\Support\MailManager.AppendLocation.exe“ “x:\Mail Manager Config\Projects.mmcollection” “x:\Projects\2019\1234-00” “Project Description”

SharePoint example:
“C:\Program Files\Mail Manager\Support\MailManager.AppendLocation.exe“ “https://mailmanager.sharepoint.com/sites/MailManager/Shared%20Documents/Projects.mmcollection” “https://mailmanager.sharepoint.com/sites/Projects/2019/1234-00” “Project Description”