I'm developing a custom appointment form on outlook 2003. I have an extra tab
that holds user-defined fields including Yes/No and String value fields and
some code that manipulates items in that tab.
I have some code in my form that appends text to the body upon send. The
form is published in the organizational forms and works well except...

When a invitee receives the meeting invite, they can see the message in the
body just fine. But when he/she click's a response (accept, decline,
tentative) the entire message body is deleted and no message is shown.

If I remove my code to deal with the Item_CustomPropertyChange event, the
message body works fine. Some of my code example:

Sub Item_CustomPropertyChange(ByVal Name)
Select Case Name
Case "IsTrue"
Set oPage = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages
Set oCntrl = oPage("My Tab Name").Controls("My Control")
oCntrl.Visible = Item.UserProperties.Find("IsTrue").Value
Case "Etc"
...
End Select
End Sub

Any ideas? Is it typical for an outlook custom form to delete the message
body if some internal error with the user-defined fields and code occurs on
the recipient side?

Any suggestions would be great! Thanks in advance

If you are referring to the message that is created when the user chooses to
edit their response to the meetinq request when replying - that is a
different form class: IPM.Schedule.Meeting.Resp. So you'd need to run code
to capture that item, or customize that form class. Also take a look at the
Action for your custom Appointment form - you have finer control over what
happens when a user replies/forwards, such as choosing the form class that is
used for those items.

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"Maui80" wrote:

> I'm developing a custom appointment form on outlook 2003. I have an extra tab
> that holds user-defined fields including Yes/No and String value fields and
> some code that manipulates items in that tab.
> I have some code in my form that appends text to the body upon send. The
> form is published in the organizational forms and works well except...
>
> When a invitee receives the meeting invite, they can see the message in the
> body just fine. But when he/she click's a response (accept, decline,
> tentative) the entire message body is deleted and no message is shown.
>
> If I remove my code to deal with the Item_CustomPropertyChange event, the
> message body works fine. Some of my code example:
>
> Sub Item_CustomPropertyChange(ByVal Name)
> Select Case Name
> Case "IsTrue"
> Set oPage = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages
> Set oCntrl = oPage("My Tab Name").Controls("My Control")
> oCntrl.Visible = Item.UserProperties.Find("IsTrue").Value
> Case "Etc"
> ...
> End Select
> End Sub
>
> Any ideas? Is it typical for an outlook custom form to delete the message
> body if some internal error with the user-defined fields and code occurs on
> the recipient side?
>
> Any suggestions would be great! Thanks in advance

Sorry for such a late reply, but wanted to thank you for the help! From your
post above, I figured I could add an If statement to check my message class
before continuing with the procedure. This is what I added:

Sub Item_CustomPropertyChange(ByVal Name)
If Item.MessageClass <> "IPM.Appointment.MyCustomForm" Then
Exit Sub
End If
....
End Sub

Nevermind. Scratch that... it's still not working. Back to the drawing board.

"Maui80" wrote:

> Sorry for such a late reply, but wanted to thank you for the help! From your
> post above, I figured I could add an If statement to check my message class
> before continuing with the procedure. This is what I added:
>
> Sub Item_CustomPropertyChange(ByVal Name)
> If Item.MessageClass <> "IPM.Appointment.MyCustomForm" Then
> Exit Sub
> End If
> ...
> End Sub