Outlook Add In

Open a Summary View panel within Outlook to view the details of records linked with the sender's email address. Log History, View Skills and Attach Documents to Colleague from Outlook.

Attach Documents to an Outlook Email stored against a Colleague record.

Parse the CV of an unregistered Email Address.

Setup Instructions

Please click here to download the add-in XML: Download Add-In

Within Outlook, click on the ‘Get Add-ins’ icon:

Then click on ‘My add ins’ and go the section ‘Custom add-ins’.

Select to ‘Add a custom add-in’ and 'Add from File'. Choose the downloaded XML file.

This will install the Colleague Outlook Add in.

From this point on when selecting an email, you will be able to click on the Colleague icon in the toolbar:

Provided the sender’s email address exists against a record within the Colleague system, you will be able to see the Colleague Summary View within Outlook:

When sending an email in Outlook, you can attach a file that is being stored against a record in Colleague.

Select the Colleague icon, when pressed this will open a panel on the right handside of the email. You will then be able to ‘Quick Search’ against Candidates, Companies, Contacts, Leads, Requirements or Placements.

A search result will list the records that have been found. On selection of a record, it will give you a dropdown list of all the documents associated to that record.

Select a document and it will attach it to the email:

Feature List:

• Attach files stored in Colleague when sending an Email
• View all selected fields as per your Summary View settings
• If there are mulitple records linked with the email address you will be able to scroll through them using a record count / arrow buttons.
• Access the record in Colleague by clicking the name
• Create a History against the record
• Access the associated Company (if it is a Contact record) by clicking the Company name
• Use the ‘Click to Dial’ feature against all phone numbers (if you have this enabled).
• Use the Create History prompt on ‘click to dial’ (if you have this enabled)
• Dock the Summary View in Outlook
• Parse Email Attachments
• Attach Documents to Existing Records
• View Skills