Outlook 2007 Form

[Irina]

I was wondering if any one can help with developing outlook 2007 custom form.
I have created an appointment form.
I have a couple of things not working in the form
1. Attach options are grayed out. I can not select the insert area on
the ribbon, it is not enabled or not available. I have created a checkbox for
Attachments, and even though I can check the box I can not enable the
attachment area.
2. When I test the appointment, I can not send it to anyone, when I
select invite attendees I am not getting TO button, only send . I can
not send the appointment
Because I am getting the error that To field is blank.

3. I need to link the contact fields to the global address book and I
don t know how that can be done.

Any help on this would be appreciated.
I do not have any VB code in the form; we are trying to avoid that.
I can attach the template for your review, but I would have to rename the
extension.
Thanks

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

1 & 2. I have no idea. I open an appointment in design mode and click the
Run This Form ribbon control and both work just fine. No way to tell what
you did with your form to make those not work.

You might have to start over with a new form and keep testing it in run mode
as you design, and see what you did to prevent 1 & 2 from working.

3. The Contacts field can only hold contact items, it will not work with GAL
entries. That's the Links collection and each Link object can only be an
Outlook ContactItem.

Make sure you review all the forms information at www.outlookcode.com to
ensure you understand how to proceed when customizing a form.

 

[Irina]

Ken,
I forgot to mention, I am not displaying first default 'appointment' tab.
I am just using my custom tab that I have created.
If you create your own tab with info you need and do not display the first
tab,
you will not have 'To' button and no attachment option.
thanks
Irina

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

That's a horse of a different color.

If you do that you would have to create your own ribbon for your
MessageClass and that requires a COM addin. You'd need to start from scratch
and completely re-create whatever ribbon controls you wanted. It would also
affect other appointment item types.

Or you need to add a recipient control and insert cintrols on the form tab
and code to attach whatever was selected. You'd also need to display some
sort of attachment selection dialog, not so easy to do with form script
code. Basically you'd need to create all those UI items yourself and
replicate the functionality you wanted.

You might want to re-think your design.

 

[Irina]

thank you for that information

That's a horse of a different color.

If you do that you would have to create your own ribbon for your
MessageClass and that requires a COM addin. You'd need to start from scratch
and completely re-create whatever ribbon controls you wanted. It would also
affect other appointment item types.

Or you need to add a recipient control and insert cintrols on the form tab
and code to attach whatever was selected. You'd also need to display some
sort of attachment selection dialog, not so easy to do with form script
code. Basically you'd need to create all those UI items yourself and
replicate the functionality you wanted.

You might want to re-think your design.