Need help with custom Outlook form

[Guest]

I'm new at customizing Outlook forms. I am creating a new Message form to
include a Label object that announces a company name change. The Compose
page works fine, but when I send a message to myself using the new form, the
Read page I get does not reflect any of the changes I made. On the Edit Read
Page in Design mode, I resized the Message body field and copied the Label to
the Read page and republished the form (several times) but neither of these
changes appear to me when I receive a test message. Can someone help me
figure this out? Thanks! (BTW, I don't know VBscript so I need to be able
to fix this without writing any code.)

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Where did you publish the form? Are you working in an Exchange enviornment
or sending via the Internet?

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



"Karen G/Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp."

 

[Guest]

Ooops, sorry! My environment is: Exchange 2000 on Windows 2K server; my
workstation is WinXP SP2 with Office XP SP3. For testing, I published the
form to a public folder for IT staff. When I send a message with the form
from Outlook, I go to Tools, Forms, Choose form, and navigate to that public
folder to select the form.

Thanks for your assistance!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The problem is that you published to a public folder. For a message form to
be fully functional, it needs to be published to the Organizational Forms
library or to each user's Personal Forms library. (Think about it: How would
Outlook know to look in a particular public folder among possibly thousands
to find the published form definition?)

If you do not plan to include any code in your form, a solution is
available: On the (Properties) page of your form, check the "Send form
definition with item" box.

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



"Karen G/Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp."

 

[swilliamson]

Hi,

I want to popualte a combo box in 2007 Outlook form by linking it to a list of terms in excel or notepad. This way it can be easily updated by people on my server, and allow the form to have any options people want in the dropdown.

Also, after a dropdown choice is picked (i.e the company we are shipping to), I want the next field over "address" to auto popualte according to the combo box selection.

I have written code for the above two, just the fields do not saty populated when I send to another user.

Finally, I want to have two buttons, Approve and Decline. Approve should send the form and Decline should reply, sending the form back to the sender. If possible they should allow for editing before completing these actions.

Thank you