Colligo Truth #5 – Colligo Contributor has a number of optimizations to improve content retrieval performance, and supports default metadata at the folder level.
As part of our continuing series on email management in SharePoint, I wanted to comment on Joel Oleson’s last post on storing all emails and attachments in a single document library. As he points out, SharePoint lists can exhibit performance problems when they are used to store large numbers of items. Since Colligo Contributor is a client-based solution for storing and displaying SharePoint lists, it can often improve list rendering performance for users.
Colligo Contributor will reflect server performance optimizations to the client since it supports folders, views, and filters. In addition, the performance of the Contributor interface is usually significantly better than the browser for content cached locally, for example when accessing content for a specific view. A unique feature in Contributor, which is not available out-of-the-box in SharePoint, is default folder-level metadata. This feature can provide advantages for tagging content since users can set default metadata values that get applied automatically when content is dragged into a SharePoint folder in Outlook. Colligo Contributor 3.2 supports large SharePoint folder hierarchies rendered through the Outlook interface.
