Saving Outlook Forms

[Guest]

Hi.
I currently have a customised form that I have designed with a series of
text boxes throughout the form. When a user completes these text boxes with
their required text and saves the form to the network, the data in these text
boxes is being lost (the text boxes are showing blank when accessing the
saved form).

How can I stop this problem from occuring?... as I need to have the
information that they input into these fields saved to the form that they
have completed.

I have checked on 'Advanced Properties' for the text boxes, but can find
nothing that I need to change in order for this to work.

Please help!

Steve

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The settings you need are on the Properties dialog for each control, not Advanced Properties. Look on the Value tab and, for each control, use the Choose FIeld or New controls to bind the control to a specific Outlook field, creating new ones as needed.

FYI, there is a newsgroup specifically for Outlook forms issues "down the hall" at microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms or, via web interface, at http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...spx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms
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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]

Hi Sue, thanks for the quick reply.
I actually have them attached to a control. I have created new ones which
appear in the 'User-defined fields in Inbox" menu (which are the same as the
labels which I have created against each textbox - I have a label with a text
box appearing adjacent to each textbox on my form).
What value should appear in the 'Property to use' field? - I currently have
it set to 'Value'.
On the 'Validation' tab, the only field I have checked in there is 'Include
this field for Printing and Save As'.
Am I doing something else wrong?
Steve

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The labels are irrelevant. They're just static text (unless you've done something truly unusual. On the data entry controls, what fields are bound at the top of the Value tab ?

What do you want the control to show? The value of the bound property. Therefore, Value is the correct choice for "property to use." It's also the default. You'll rarely need to change it.

What type of form is this -- post, contact, etc.? Does it have separate read and compose layouts? If so, did you also bind controls on the read layout to the same properties?

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

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