Custom sidebars in Wiki server

Question

Apple's Wiki Server and Podcast Producer are one of the best if not the best product for serving podcasts BUT this application fails in certain areas that easily puts customers off considering that companies will always vie for a Pc solution.
My major issue with the Wiki server is the custom sidebar addition. Now this should so simple to add but if you try and add a custom sidebar following apples help directives below
Adding a sidebar to the home page
The home page of your wiki automatically displays items that are tagged "hot" in a sidebar, so that users will be more apt to notice them. If you're the site owner, you can add another sidebar that spotlights items tagged with another tag of your choosing.
*To add a custom sidebar:*
*Open your site's homepage and then click the Edit (pencil) button.*
*Click the Groups Settings button.*
*Click Sidebar and enter the tag that will be used to identify items to appear in the sidebar, such as "projectX."*
*Enter a title for sidebar, such as "Project X News," then click OK.*
*Click "save" in the toolbar to save your changes.*
*The five most recent Items tagged with the tag you specified will automatically appear in the sidebar.*
First the edit pencil in the home page does not provide one the capability to edit the custom sidebar settings but the actual appearance of the page such as the text and placement of media etc.
The custom sidebar settings can only be accessed via the Admin Functions/ settings/ even then you can add a single custom side bar and when you try to add another you will find that the details of the last custom sidebar is still in place. If you delete that information and add new information this will delete the previous custom sidebar creating a new one. Now this is such an annoying issue that Apple needs to resolve ASAP as some of us are trying to sell this product for it's other benefits.
Another area that it fails at is the display of items. Currently the maximum number of items displayable is 5. To increase this requires messing about with theme files and plist files! Now this should also be a simple feature that should exist in the Admin Functions settings area. Unless I am missing something then someone should enlighten me as to the mystery of these settings. I hope Snow leopard will have all these basic issues ironed out.

Answer 1

by "custom fields" i mean some additional fields. e.g i want a clerk to mail a minute sheet along with remarks of clerk, to an officer. now i have put some fields e.g clerk's name, type of mail (minute sheet etc), officer's name etc on the email form (i have designed that form in java and using javamail api to send/receive mails). while sending this email, clerk fills those fields and mail it to the officer. now depending upon the type of mail (if its a minute sheet or whatever), that mail should be opened in the appropriate form designed for that type of mail, showing all those additional fields, e.g clerk's name in clerk's name label, officer's name in officer's name label etc. is it possible that i can tel exchange server to store the information about those custom fields while storing the mail so that i can retrieve those fields later. hope u got my point.thanks