Allow drag and drop to Outlook e-mails for sending documents
I get a lot of requests from users that would like the option to drag and drop documents from the DocuWare webclient (i.e. from a search result) directly into an Outlook e-mail.
Currently, the only option is to right click and Send by E-mail. However this option creates a new, empty, e-mail and freezes up the whole Outlook client until the e-mail is sent. This renders our users unable to respond to document requests or to attach documents into ongoing conversations - which is the case most of the time when a document is needed.
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Thank you for your idea.
Right now, there is no possibility to change this behavior. DocuWare is using a system functionality from Windows to send an email. Outlook is blocking access to the main window when using this system functionality.
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Jörg Karpa
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While I do understand that Outlook is the root of this problem, as Outlook decides to block all but the email-in-creation form:
There are other functionalities to send an eMail, and those are not blocking Outlook. Blaim the extra effort on Microsoft, and implement an option to send via Interop.Outlook.
Side notice: Many companies using Outlook are using Microsoft 365 by now. It is a good time to implement an Office 365 API interface. That would not be blocking at all.