How to launch outlook on certain view(s) - Dynamics CRM Outlook Client

I'm using the Dynamics CRM Outlook client and would like Outlook to launch on my dashboard; the end game I'm hoping to reach is to have 4 dashboards open in independent windows on launch.  What switches can I use to open a specific dashboard in Outlook?

The scenario is: a machine hooked up to 4 monitors with an autologon account.  It has no peripherals attached, we're hoping to get this unit completely automated to return to the 4 specific dashboards on these monitors in the event of a power failure or need to restart.

Below is an example of a dashboard screen within the Dynamics Outlook Client

July 11th, 2015 12:46pm

Hi,

There is no such way to make Outlook start in this view as far as I can tell. The only close thing I can find is the "Start Outlook in this folder" Option in File -> Options -> Advanced -> Outlook start and exit, but it doesn't seem to be helpful in your scenario anyway.

Regards,

Melon Chen
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July 13th, 2015 5:37am

While you can configure the initial start screen of Outlook, to open multiple Outlook windows with specific folders selected, you'd need to look into VBA solutions and the Outlook OOM or go quick and dirty with a batch file executing outlook.exe with the /select switch.
See: Create a Desktop shortcut to an Outlook folder

You can also arrange the windows to you liking by code. If you are not too familiar with that, AutoIt might be useful to you; https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/

July 13th, 2015 6:17am

Excellent, I'll try out your solutions. Thanks for the direction
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July 13th, 2015 9:51am

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