Sending personalized forms as vcards

[Jeff Strachan]

We have personalized the contact form for business
purposes. These forms are viewable in the new format
within our office on all conputers that have installed the
form and are on the same mail server. When we try to send
the contact form to a client they do not get the form.
They get all the information from the form separated by
tabs and they get the attachments to the forms but it does
not transfer in a vcard format. We installed the forms on
the external computers and they open and function fine but
we cannot send the whole contact and allow them to open it
as we can within the office. A contact that is
transferred within the office comes through with an icon
that has a blue pin in a document or it comes through as a
grey icon that looks a contact form icon like when sending
a vcard.

How can I send the personalized form as a vcard?

 

[Shannon McCoy]

You are talking about two different things. vCards are a
MIME encoded mail message. From what I can tell MS only
supports vCard 2.1 specifiation and the vCard RFCs 2425
and 2426 include no support for forms or display
information. You can find more at
http://www.imc.org/pdi/ . As for the forms you could save
the form as a .oft file and attach it with your email.
The .oft file contains all the information for the custom
form you created. It works in your organization because
you either posted it in your organizational forms folder
on your Exchange server or you included the form
definition with the contact/mailitem you when you send
it. I actually just tested it in Outlook 2003 and you can
save the contact from the File menu. Here are the steps
that worked for me.
1. Open the contact
2. Click File->Save As...
3. Save the contact as an .oft file
4. Create a new Mail item and attacth the .oft file you
just created.
I sent mine across the Internet between 2 Exchange 2003
servers and it came through fine.
Hope this helps. Good luck

Shannon McCoy
Nexus IS