Customize the Outlook Category when Email is Transferred to SharePoint

When email(s) are successfully copied to SharePoint a category of "Transferred to SharePoint" is automatically set on the email(s) in Outlook.

This can be modified via the following XML:

Property

Mandatory / Optional

Description

action

Mandatory

Set to “insert” to change the default behavior

Set to “delete” to revert to default behavior

enabled

Optional

Valid values: “true” or “false”

categoryName

Optional

The name of the category to assign to transferred email messages.

 Example: Set the category name to custom category name

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<configuration> 
<outlook> 
<setCategoryOnTransfer action="delete"/> 
<setCategoryOnTransfer categoryName="custom category name" action="insert"/> 

</outlook> 



</configuration> 

 

 Example: Disable setting of category on transfer

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <outlook>
        <setCategoryOnTransfer action="delete"/>
        <setCategoryOnTransfer enabled="false" action="insert"/>
    </outlook>
</configuration>