Using BlackBerry Work
BlackBerry Work
BlackBerry Work for macOS
is integrated as a web extension to BlackBerry Access for macOS
. This simplifies installation, configuration, deployment, and day-to-day use. BlackBerry Work for macOS
allows you to use BlackBerry Work
mail, calendar, and contacts features in BlackBerry Access
.BlackBerry Work
offers the following features:Feature | Description |
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Sort email messages | You can sort email messages by subject, sender, and date. To sort the contents of your email folders, click the Subject, Sender, or Date column headings. |
Attachments |
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Search |
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Printing | If your administrator allows it, you can print web pages, pages from web apps (email messages, calendar, contacts), and downloaded files. Click and select Print . |
Synchronization | BlackBerry Work synchronizes all email messages, calendar events, contacts, and folders with your work mail server. BlackBerry Work displays a “Sync in progress” notification in the Inbox tab (on the left) when new email messages are received.BlackBerry Work has a Refresh button on the action bar in the email, calendar, and contacts tabs. You can use this option to manually initiate synchronization of email messages, calendar events, and contacts, or send items from the Outbox folder. |
Email features |
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Quick access to user profiles from email messages | You can click a user name in an email header and open a pop-up window that displays options to view the user’s profile or to send an email to the user. |
Contacts features |
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Calendar features |
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Avatars | BlackBerry Work synchronizes user images in email messages and contacts if they exist in the GAL. If no image is available, the user's initials are displayed instead. The color assigned to the avatar is random. |
Streaming notifications | Streaming notifications combine the functionality of push and pull notifications. The mail app establishes a notification subscription and the connection remains open for 30 minutes to allow the mail server to push notifications. Webapps uses streaming notifications for synchronizing email messages, calendar events, and contacts. Streaming notifications are standard and supported by EWS. Streaming notifications reduce the load on the Microsoft Exchange
Server and improve the overall performance. |
Out-of-office notifications | You can configure out-of-office notifications. |
Diagnostics menu | You can access a new diagnostics page in the Settings menu to view information about the number of active and inactive tabs (including email, calendar, contacts, and sync), to view status information about tabs, to refresh tabs, and to test the connection with the Microsoft Exchange
Server . |
Work offline | You can use many BlackBerry Work features while offline. For example, you can draft email messages or create calendar invites that you can send when your Internet connection is restored.Drafted email messages that are sent while you are offline are displayed in the Outbox folder. You can choose to delete or save the email message as a draft from the Outbox folder. |
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