Outlook form

[Guest]

Hello,
we are trying to create an outlook form where the sender can input some data
into the form and ask for an opinion. The recipient receives the form and
through the voting option can "Accept, Reject or require more info". based on
the selection, the original sender receives the initial request back with the
decision. but if the decision is to provide more info, the original sender
should receive the original form back but this time with all the control set
to Read-Only, and only enable one text box to add a comment as the required
info.
Do you have any ideas how this can be done? Any help /direction would be
appreciated.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Whether it's practical to do at all with Outlook forms depends on details you didn't include in your description: Are you using Exchange as your mail server? If so, do you have permission to publish custom forms to the Organizational Forms library. The answer to both questions needs to be Yes.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Hey Sue,
The answer yes to both questions.
Thanx

Whether it's practical to do at all with Outlook forms depends on details you didn't include in your description: Are you using Exchange as your mail server? If so, do you have permission to publish custom forms to the Organizational Forms library. The answer to both questions needs to be Yes.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

In that case, you will be able to have published forms that can run code for all recipients. Code is going to be required to handle your voting button scenario, specifically in the Item_CustomAction event handler to handle the CustomAction event, which is discussed in detail in VBA Help. You will need to add a custom property to the form to store its "state" -- i.e. information about how you want the UI to look. Then the Item_Open event will enable/disable controls on the read layout of the returned item that meet the requirements of that state.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers