Submitted by viking on 2022/11/19 20:26

I can drag-drop multiple Outlook items from Outlook to IQ.
However, when I try to copy/paste multiple items from Outlook to IQ, only the first item is pasted.

EDIT: Copy/Paste multiple E-mails to Word works fine

A feature request:
When pasting Outlook items, would it be possible to also paste the E-mail Date, From, To (Recipient) and E-mail Account?
If not possible when pasting, how about drag-drop (I much prefer pasting)?

EDIT: When I paste Outlook items into Notepad, it shows: From, To (Recipient) and E-mail Account. However, instead of showing the actual date, only Weekday and time is shown (e.g  Wed 7:58 instead of 11/16/22)!?

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Thank you so much for the new Outlook feature that now also copies the:
EmailDate
EmailRecipients
EmailSender

If not too difficult, and when you have time, would it also be possible to copy
EmailAccount ?

I have several E-mail accounts for different purposes and Emails are "categorized" by the Email account.
TIA!
 

I still have problems when pasting multiple E-mails.
They are pasted fine, but only the first E-mail is assigned to the current Grid (e.g. my EmaiIs grid with source=Emails)
Therefore, when I refresh, all but the first item disappears.

Yes, I paste into a blank TLI item.
Sometimes, not even the first E-mail item gets assigned to the Grid.
If I close and reopen the IQ file, the first item works again.

EDIT: I just tried it in a new IQ file and it works fine there. Must be something wrong with my previous IQ file (I also tried a new Grid but had the same issue in the previous file).

After some research, I found out that the IQ field names didn't match what I expected in Outlook. Here are the problems:

IQ Field                     Outlook Field            Comments                                                                                                                                                          

Item

Subject

 OK

EmailDate

 Received OK

EmailRecipients

 Recipient Name OK (Rarely has any values)

Missing from IQ

To

 In Outlook, it sometimes shows a name and sometimes an E-mail address.

EmailBox

 E-mail Account If "E-mail Account" and "To" values are both E-mail addresses but are different, it will show the "To" value instead!

Thus, two issues:
1. The "To" field is missing from IQ
2. The EmailBox field shows the "To" E-mail address instead of the "E-mail Account" address if they are both E-mail addresses but different.
(The "To" E-mail address is the address the E-mail was sent to. The "E-mail Account" is the account the E-mail was downloaded from.
For example, I may have received an E-mail "To" viking@abc.com that was forwarded to the "E-mail account" viking2@abc.com )

 

p.s. The Table column widths are not saved after editing... ;-(

I really like the feature to save Emails, by copy/paste, into IQ. 
I wonder if it is at all possible (and not too much work!) to also save the E-mail body in the Doc pane?

I am currently copy/paste a lot of E-mail into IQ and it is a lot of work to later manually copy/paste the bodies into the Doc Pane.

If I understand correctly, I will need to forward all relevant Outlook E-mails to a (new) IMAP E-mail address that IQ could pull from.
1. If I try to do them all at once, they are sent as attachments so that wouldn't work.
2. If I try to do them one-by-one (would be a lot of work) it would anyway not work as intended because now the sender, recipient, date etc would change.

Would the potential feature to add the Email body when copying/pasting multiple E-mails to IQ be something that could be done reasonable easy so that it could be implemented "soon" or maybe it will need to wait until some later time?

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