Outlook drop folders have long enabled close integration between Worldox and Outlook. In pre-GX2 versions, drop folders works as follows:
• Each drop folder in Outlook corresponds to an Email Quick Profile in Worldox.
• Drop folders display under a WORLDOX folder on the Outlook path tree.
• Email can be dragged onto drop folders to trigger Worldox profile/move operations. This action opens one or more Worldox dialogs, but not the Worldox application itself.
• Clicking a drop folder - or dragging and dropping messages - brings up an access panel listing Worldox choices in the right-side Outlook frame.
The net effect is that drop folders are used in Outlook to initiate Worldox operations. Before GX2, those operations always occurred outside Outlook, within Worldox dialogs or in a separate Worldox application window.
The GX2 difference lies in access - how the Worldox application is made available to you from within Outlook.
Drop folders can still work in the familiar way, accessing Worldox via an access panel and action buttons. Depending on how your site is configured/upgraded now, drop folders could still work that way on your site.
There is an alternative mode in GX2. Now Worldox can be configured so that drop folders bring Worldox into the Outlook application frame. When so configured, clicking a drop folder actually opens Worldox within that right-side Outlook frame. You are seeing an application within an application.
Note: There is also a combined access mode, which makes it so that you see the access panel when first clicking on a drop-folder or drag and drop messages. Then, when you click any button in that right-side panel, Worldox fills into the Outlook frame.
The advantage in GX2 - one much appreciated by Worldox customers who spend a great deal of time in Outlook - is convenience. Instead of having Worldox open on your desktop as a separate application, in a separate window, this enhancement allows you to remain in Outlook, to use Outlook as your primary application. No more toggling between applications. Everything happens within one application window, if you choose to configure drop folders that way.