Article ID: 185060
Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q185060
SUMMARY
This article describes what GroupWise(R) is and how Microsoft Word 97 for Windows integrates with GroupWise.
MORE INFORMATION
GroupWise 5.2 is a cross-platform messaging and groupware product that enables you to expand beyond normal e-mail capabilities to access and manage calendar, scheduling, tasks, voice mail, faxes, and other message types from within a Universal Mailbox.
GroupWise is also a document management system that enables you to control, organize, access, and share information. Word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, images, e-mail messages, or any type of file you want to save can be managed through GroupWise.
How GroupWise Document Management Works
Contained in GroupWise 5.2 is the document management system (DMS), which is extended to include all types of information including e-mail, voice mail, faxes, images, appointments, tasks, and workflows. Document libraries, hosted on a GroupWise Post Office, contains document properties while the actual documents are stored in a binary object store in a compressed and encrypted format. The GroupWise Post Office Agent is responsible for the maintenance of the document library and binary object store. Check-in, check-out, version control, security, and so forth, are built into the document library and the Post Office Agent. Any ODMA- compliant application can use the document management services of GroupWise 5.2.
How Word 97 Integrates With GroupWise
As an Open Document Management (ODMA) compliant application, Word 97 searches in the Windows Registry during start-up for the following subkey to determine if a document management system (DMS) is installed.
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\ODMA32
If GroupWise is found as installed in this registry subkey, Word 97 initiates calls (hooks) into GroupWise using ODMA integration. As a result of this integration, several default Word functions are either replaced or supplemented with the GroupWise interface. These functions include the functions that are triggered by the following commands on the File menu:
- Open
- Close
- Save
- Save As
- Save as HTML
- Versions
During the installation and integration of GroupWise, the following subkey is written to the Windows registry:
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\ODMA32\GRPWISE
NOTE: This is the registry subkey that informs ODMA-compliant applications that GroupWise is installed on the computer. If the subkey is removed from the Windows Registry, GroupWise ODMA integration with Word 97 will be disabled.
Features of GroupWise
GroupWise expands e-mail functionality to integrate collaboration capabilities. GroupWise includes the following features.
Feature Description
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Integrated Desktop Customizable environment in which you can
access, organize, keep track of, profile/store,
share and communicate information.
Universal Mailbox Allows you to send, receive, and manage
multiple types of information (for example,
e-mail, voice mail, faxes, calendar events,
tasks, documents, workflows, and so forth) used
by both network-connected and remote users.
Internet/Intranet URL's, Internet e-mail addresses, and FTP
Integration file names included in the subject or message
body of a GroupWise include hyperlinks to
your default browser, Send Mail view, or FTP
application.
E-Mail Client Includes status tracking and retraction of
outbound messages; CC and BCC; attachments and
document references; an integrated speller,
thesaurus and QuickCorrect composition coach;
and the ability to convert message types (for
example, a mail message converted to a task,
appointment or note).
Work-In-Progress Lets you track calendar events and to-do lists,
maintain personal address books, and manage a
"work-in-progress" folder, which holds
unfinished items until completed.
Group Calendaring Offers wide-area calendar and scheduling
capabilities -- including busy schedule and
auto-date scheduling, and proxy and busy search
across post offices.
Replicated Shared Allows you to provide others with access to
Folders specific folders for workgroup and
collaborative interaction, including group
document editing.
Document Management DMS services which includes check-in/check-out
(for single documents, single folders, multiple
folders, selected documents from a single
folder, or selected documents from multiple
folders), concurrency control and versioning.
Integrated WorkFlow Allows transport and tracking of work items
Services created by desktop applications. Provides a
graphical workflow tool to define serial,
parallel, broadcast, conditional and workflow
"joins" without having to write code.
GroupWise Allows you to access, share and manage many
Post Office types of information without the limits as to
platform or document type.
Features:
- Support of multiple message types/documents
- Preservation of attributes and context of
Mailbox items
- Concurrent access to information
- MAPI 1.0, ODMA, LDAP, CMC/CSA, POP3 and IMAP4
service provider
GroupWise Imaging View, store, edit, and route scanned image
files across corporate networks and intranets
via the GroupWise Universal Mailbox.
System Requirements
The following are the system requirements to run GroupWise.
Microsoft Windows 95 Client:
- 486/33 megahertz (MHz) processor or greater
- 16 megabytes (MB) random access memory (RAM)
- 6 MB minimum available hard disk space. 24 MB available hard disk space recommended.
Microsoft Windows NT Client:
- Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 or greater
- 486/33 MHz processor or greater
- 16 MB RAM memory
- 6 MB minimum available hard disk space. 24 MB available hard disk space recommended.
REFERENCES
Novell and GroupWise are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
GroupWise 5.2, Copyright (C) 1998 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. Used and reprinted with permission from Novell, Inc.
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
159963 WD97: Word 97 Supports ODMA
For more information about GroupWise, please contact Novell.
Novell
GroupWise Support
122 East 1700 South
Mail Stop E-33-1
Provo, UT 84606 USA
Technical Support: (801) 861-4000 or (800) 858-4000
Fax : (801) 861-2660
Internet : http://www.novell.com/groupwise
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