I want to use Reply with a Form

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I'm using Outlook 2003 and I created a form that needs to have a reply
option. When I enabled Reply, I chose "Include and indent original message
text." But, when I use the form, and choose Reply, the Reply does not have
any of the text from the form on it. It only has the message header (From,
Sent, To, and Subject).

Is there a way to include form's information on the Reply page? Thanks for
any assistance.

-- Carolyn
 
Do you mean the information that users enter on the form outside the message body? Are you working in an Exchange environment?
 
Yes, I would like to see the information the user types into the form on the
Reply, and we use Outlook 2003 with Exchange Server 2003. Thank you.

-- Carolyn
 
You have a couple of choices. Both will require that you have the ability to publish the form in the Organizational Forms library:

1) On the Actions page of the custom message form, set its Reply action to use the same custom form, then republish the form. That way the reply will use the same form as the original message.

2) Put code in the Reply event handler to build the message body from the other fields on the form.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thank you for your answer. When I add the custom message form in the Reply
action, I see the form when I hit the Reply button, this is what I wanted to
happen. I would also like to have a text box so that I can type a reply. Is
this possible? Thank you.

-- Carolyn
 
YOu would need to include the text box in your form design.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thank you very much, that worked. I created another form with fields from the
original form and a text box for the reply.

-- Carolyn
 
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