Form Registration / Macro Warning

[Fred Block]

Hi All,

I'm deploying an custom Outlook 2000 message form (with VBScript code)
that's used with a COM add-in I wrote as well. All is fine here on my
system. On my EU's machine, the following message appears:
###
Warning: Opening "<email_subject_value_here>"

The form for this item has not been registered in this folder or in your
company's forms library. Because this item contains macros, which could
contain a virus harmful to your computer, you may not want to run the
macros.

If you are sure this item is from a trusted source, click 'Enable macros'.
Otherwise, click 'Disable macros'.
###

This EU's company is running Exchange Server (I'm not in my development
environment).

Thanks for any help provided!

Kind regards - Fred

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Is the form published?

 

[Fred Block]

Hi Sue,

Thanks for the reply!

Is the form published?

Yes it was, and to the Personal Forms folder.

As a note, I do have the forms "Send form definition with item" checked on
the Properties tab. I'm not sure if this could be causing the issue or not.

Basically, the form is just used to gather data from a remote laptop user.
Data in ComboBoxes are populated with VBScript and an INI file is used for
the drop-down list(s) data. Other TextBox controls are used too but without
any coding. After the remote user enter's their data, the message is sent to
another user who in turns uses my COM add-in to extract the data (and the
add-in places the form data elsewhere; outside of Exchange).

Kind regards - Fred

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

That's exactly the problem. Checking that box one-offs the form. See
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/formpub.htm#oneoff.

Also note: The newsgroup interface you are using apparently does not quote
earlier messages in the thread, making your latest message so short on
detail that you risk not getting the answer you're looking for. Please take
the time to quote the original message.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Fred Block]

Hi Sue,

That's exactly the problem. Checking that box one-offs the form. See
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/formpub.htm#oneoff.

Thanks again Sue but I wish it were that simple! I will be reading more of
the doc's you referred me to.

I did turn off the checkbox and re-sent the file to the user. The user
published the form and same message appears. Could this have anything to do
with Edit Compose Page / Edit Read Page being disabled?

Also - one more...
The title bar (in design mode) reads: Untitled - Message (Rich Text) -
US-ASCII (Design). Is "this" OK as I don't know where this is coming from.

Thanks for all of your help!

Kind regards - Fred

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Forms can one-off for other reasons, as the page I suggested explains. If
you're getting that enable/disable macro warning, it's definitely one-off.
It has nothing to do with using a unified layout.

Also note: The newsgroup interface you are using apparently does not quote
earlier messages in the thread, making your latest message so short on
detail that you risk not getting the answer you're looking for. Please take
the time to quote the original message.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Fred Block]

Hi Sue,

Forms can one-off for other reasons, as the page I suggested explains. If
you're getting that enable/disable macro warning, it's definitely one-off.
It has nothing to do with using a unified layout.

Unified layout is disbabling the "Edit Compose Page / Edit Read Page"?

The form is posted in the Personal Forms folder. Would the Exchange Server
get in the way at all?

Also note: The newsgroup interface you are using apparently does not quote
earlier messages in the thread, making your latest message so short on
detail that you risk not getting the answer you're looking for. Please take
the time to quote the original message.

Probably my fault (working fast).

I'll have to keep on reading.

Thanks and kind regards - Fred

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

The library where you publish the form also has no bearing on the form's
one-off status. One-offing is caused by other factors.

 

[Fred Block]

Hi Sue,

The library where you publish the form also has no bearing on the form's
one-off status. One-offing is caused by other factors.

Figured it out. When the form was being opened a prompt was displayed
stating that the checkbox for "Send form definition with item" was not
enabled with a Yes/No. My client was selecting "Yes". Once corrected the
solution worked perfectly!

Thanks for your time Sue. You taught me things I did not know and I
appreciate it greatly!

Kind regards - Fred