Data Flow Between Internet Explorer and Exchange Server

The CML/LitCrit application never writes to Microsoft Exchange Server, but it does read from an Exchange information store in the following situation:

Using the CML/LitCrit Web application, you have searched the FmLib database to find titles of interest. You click a title to see details about it. One of the details displayed by the application is whether any critiques have been approved for this title. If so, they are listed for you in a table that displays the title of the critique and the rating of the item. You can click a row in the table to read the whole critique.

Choosing to read the critique displays it in a new HTML page. This page was generated using the Outlook HTML Form Converter and Outlook Web Access.

The following diagram shows this data flow.

1. Using the CML/LitCrit application, you click the title of a critique to indicate you want to read the entire critique. The application's Active Server Pages (ASP) pages call a CDO method (see Using CDO in the CML/LitCrit Application) that opens the critique in the Microsoft Exchange Server information store to retrieve its properties.
2. The critique's data is returned through CDO to the ASP page running on the Web server, which in turn opens the CML/LitCrit Web form (see Creating the CML/LitCrit Web Form) and displays the returned data in it.