Outlook 2003 with BCM: Unable to publish a customized BC-form

[Christian Trojer]

I created a customized BusinessContact form.
After the Customization I pushed the Publish-Button. In the window "Publish
Form As" I selected the "Personal Forms Library", choose a name and pushed
the Publish Button.
An error occurs: "The Business Contact cannot be saved unless it contains a
Full Name. Please type a name in the Full Name Box, and then save".

Has anyone experience in customizing and publishing forms in Business
Contact Manager and Outlook2003.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Patricia Cardoza - [MVP Outlook]]

The only way to customize forms for BCM is to design and publish them in a
profile that does not have BCM loaded. Otherwise the logic in BCM prevents
them from being published. So create a new profile, don't load BCM, and
then you should be able to publish your customized forms.

 

[Christian Trojer]

Thanks Patricia,

I tried that way - it works - no message appears.

But how can I use the new form in my "Original"-Profile with the BCM in it.

Sorry about my "silly" question, but I'm not really familiar with the new
forms-logic.

BTW: Do you know a good and understandable docu about OL2003 w. BCM?

Once again, thanks for your kind support.

Christian

 

[Christian Trojer]

with help from Patricia Cardoza, i found a solution:

1) Publish the form with "Form name:" BCM.Contact (That's important to
produce the Message class IPM.contact.BCM.Contact)

2) In the Outlook-Menubar choose Tools - Options - Other - Advanced
Options... - Button Custom Forms - Button Manage Forms

3) Mark the customized form and save it as a Form Message (.fdm)

4) Change to the Profile with BCM go to Manage Forms

5) Now you can delete the original ContactForm and install the customized

I've tested it and the new form is working as fine as the old one did.