Connectability is a standard protocol that is supported within a SharePoint environment. CorasWorks navigation and roll-up components can utilize the connectability interface so CorasWorks web parts can “talk” to one another and one web part can receive information from another web part. This information can be used to alter the data displayed within the current web part.
You can only activate a connection when the page is in Design mode. Once in Design mode, access the web part menu and select Connections. Then specify the type of connection you want and the web part you want to connect to.
After establishing a connection from an Outlook web part (My Contacts, My Calendar, My Tasks, My Personal Folder, or My Public Folder) to a Summary web part (Contact Summary, Event Summary, or Task Summary), a Refresh button will appear on the Outlook web part that allows you to initiate a download of SharePoint items from the Summary web part to the Outlook web part. The first time a download is performed, additional SharePoint views are added to the user's Outlook folder, allowing them to filter their SharePoint items from their Outlook items.
Users can also initiate a download from SharePoint to Outlook by using the CorasWorks Client program. You can learn more about the CorasWorks Client here.
NOTE: Placing multiple Outlook and Summary web parts on a single page and establishing connections between them is not supported. Although you can have multiple Outlook web parts and multiple Summary web parts on a single page, only one of them may have a connection established.
Using either the My Personal Folder or My Public Folder web part, you can choose which Outlook folder should receive downloaded SharePoint items; you must ensure that the Outlook folder is the same base type as the connecting Summary web part. In other words, you can not connect a Task Summary web part to a My Personal Folder web part pointing to an Outlook-based Calendar folder and expect to download tasks into your calendar.
NOTE: Only the default Outlook Tasks and Calendar folders support reminders. Tasks and events downloaded to a My Personal Folder or My Public Folder will not have reminders set. This is a limitation of Microsoft Outlook.
The My Contacts, My Calendar, My Tasks, My Personal Folder, and My Public Folder Outlook web parts have been specifically designed to consume SharePoint items via the Contact Summary, Event Summary, or Task Summary web parts. Connecting any other web parts is not supported.
The Contacts, Events and Tasks Summary web parts can act as List Providers to the My Contacts, My Calendar, My Tasks, My Personal Folder, and My Public Folder web parts. You should only connect each Summary web part type to its corresponding Outlook web part. For example, you should only connect a Contact Summary web part to a My Contacts Outlook web part.