Summary

Microsoft Outlook 2000 provides a great deal of functionality that you can use to build custom views into the data which it manages, as well as data from other data sources through the use of Office Web Components and Web technology.

Digital dashboard pages are hosted within Microsoft Outlook 2000. They are enhanced through the integration with Outlook's capabilities to manage messages, tasks, and calendars. Three ActiveX controls give you quick and easy access to these areas. A fourth ActiveX control, the Outlook View Control, gives you access to any folder and view within Outlook.

Digital dashboards can link into Outlook in two ways. The first way is to augment or replace the Outlook Today page, which is at the root of every Outlook ...

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