Who is this article for?

Mail Manager Administrators creating filing locations.

Edit access to collection files is required.

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 few parameters. This will append a new filing location for the project to a specified collection file.

This article is split into the following sections:

1. Overview

2. Using Append Locations.exe

1. Overview

As part of your process to set up a new project, create and run a script (e.g. using Shell execute) with the required parameters:

• Path to MailManager.AppendLocation.exe
• Collection file path
• Location folder path
• Location description

The script will append the Mail Manager filing location for the project to the specified collection file.

2. Using Append Locations.exe

A user creates a new project via their ERP or DM system.

As part of the setup process a script is run (e.g. using Shell execute) to call the MailManager.AppendLocation.exe with the required parameters e.g.

Example: File System

“C:\Program Files\Mail Manager\Support\MailManager.AppendLocation.exe“ “x:\Mail Manager Config\Projects.mmcollection” “x:\Projects\2023\1234-00” “Project Description”

Example: SharePoint

“C:\Program Files\Mail Manager\Support\MailManager.AppendLocation.exe“ “https://company.sharepoint.com/sites/MailManager/Shared%20Documents/Projects.mmcollection” “https://company.sharepoint.com/sites/Projects/2023/1234-00” “Project Description”

Note: 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