Distributing a designed form

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We are running microsoft exchange 2000 and clients have outlook 2000. Now i
designed a form in outlook. It requires the HR to fill out certain
information in the form and then mail it over to the administrators (us) so
we can grant them required access to workstations. Anyways, i went to test it
out, i filled the required information and tried to email it to another
network admin and it would not show the form. When he opened it up it would
show an empty message!!! There is a special instructions box on that form
that can be filled out, and when the network admin opened the email up it
wouldn't show the designed form but only the special instructions. like it
were a regular mail.
So please if someone could help out and provide a solution i would really
appreciate that.

Thank You
 
Did you check the option to send form definition when you published the
form?

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After furious head scratching, Reddevil-1 asked:

| We are running microsoft exchange 2000 and clients have outlook 2000.
| Now i designed a form in outlook. It requires the HR to fill out
| certain information in the form and then mail it over to the
| administrators (us) so we can grant them required access to
| workstations. Anyways, i went to test it out, i filled the required
| information and tried to email it to another network admin and it
| would not show the form. When he opened it up it would show an empty
| message!!! There is a special instructions box on that form that can
| be filled out, and when the network admin opened the email up it
| wouldn't show the designed form but only the special instructions.
| like it were a regular mail.
| So please if someone could help out and provide a solution i would
| really appreciate that.
|
| Thank You
 
yes outlook pops up a little box asking me to if i would like to like to send
the form definition when i publish the form, and then gives me the option
asking me if i would like to check the box. ANd i hit yes ! but still it
doesn't happen. Where should i be publishing the form ( just want to double
check). I mean does it matter if i save and publish it in any one of the
folder (eg: inbox, personal, drafts ???)

Thanks
 
Did you click the Edit Read layout button to design a read layout for the
form?
 
no all i did was edit a compose page. So you mean to say if i need the other
people i send this mail form to, to be able to see the form the way it is, i
have to make the read layout the same ???
and if i do is there a way i can just copy over the design of the form the
way it is in the edit compose page ???

Thanks
 
ok, so i went to the edit read page and copy and pasted the form the same
way. and save the form definition so that the person who recieves the form
can read it. But now when i go to print it it prints in the itemized and
alphabetical order and not according to what the screen looks. How do i get
it to print it the way the form looks and not the way it did (itemized and
alphabetically and with 0's or -1's) ???

Thanks
 
See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/customprint.htm for various solutions to
the limitation that Outlook forms don't support WYSIWYG printing. The Word
template technique is the most flexible and highly recommended.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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