Custom Mailbox Toolbar

This tutorial will show you how you can offer your users a custom mailbox toolbar to set two different levels of priority on individual messages and to optionally protect and remove any expiry limitations.

The first step is to create a container template group that will be applied to the mailboxes of those who wish to have the new buttons enabled.

A new column must be added to the left of the current set of columns

You must now create 6 rules that will be created as toolbar buttons to manage the new features.

This rule will set a Blue pin icon in the new custom column beside the selected message.

This rule will set a Red pin icon in the new custom column beside the selected message.

This rule will clear the priority icon if set.

This rule will change the message icon to a "Lock" icon, protect it and set the expiry to never.

This rule will clear the padlock icon, unprotect it and set the expiry back to default.

Once you have created your custom rules you can adjust the column order and toolbar on the model view for the container template

You should now test that the new set of rules can be applied to users.
Individual users cannot manually add their mailbox to this container template group. (More on this later)
To test the functionality, an administrator account can.

The belongs to field is not visible to individual users when they look at their mailbox permissions so we need to be able to create a way for them to initiate the steps.
This can be done by a batch admin script that is initiated through a conference toolbar button.

There will be two scripts. One to allow users to add their mailbox to the container template group, and one to remove the group from their mailbox

To all users to run these scripts, we need to create a conference and add two application rules as toolbar buttons.
The conference itself need not have any content and all other icons can be removed from the toolbar before creating the two new rules.

We can now create two toolbar buttons for our Widget Conference.

This rule will run the SetPriorityIcons script

This rule will run the SetPriorityIcons script

The widget conference exists only so the user can choose the toolbar buttons to activate the script. There is no need for any content unless you wish to add a document explaining the purpose of the buttons.