XML form output to Outlook Contact...

[Guest]

I'm trying to determine if there is a "non-programming" way for me to send FP 2003 form output (XML) to my Outlook email and automatically generate a contact from this email. Right now my forms simply email the results in a formatted HTML format.

I'd rather not create a database at the moment and I end up manually creating contacts from prospects that fill out my web forms so it seems like it should be easy enough to generate a contact from the XML file received in my inbox. Am I looking at some coding or is there a facility in Outlook 2003 to do this?

I know I'm on the FP group but I'm not sure which end really needs to trigger the "autocreate".

Any thoughts?

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

The Outlook end needs to trigger the autocreate
- otherwise it would be a security breach for an email (in any form) to access your address book / contacts (you might try an
Outlook newsgroup for methods (VBA, FORMS, Rules etc)

To get FP to send the forms results in anything but the formatted options in Form properties, you would need a custom forms handler
(ASP or PHP or CGI)
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| I'm trying to determine if there is a "non-programming" way for me to send FP 2003 form output (XML) to my Outlook email and
automatically generate a contact from this email. Right now my forms simply email the results in a formatted HTML format.
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| I'd rather not create a database at the moment and I end up manually creating contacts from prospects that fill out my web forms
so it seems like it should be easy enough to generate a contact from the XML file received in my inbox. Am I looking at some coding
or is there a facility in Outlook 2003 to do this?
|
| I know I'm on the FP group but I'm not sure which end really needs to trigger the "autocreate".
|
| Any thoughts?
|

 

[Guest]

Stefan

Thanks! Yeah, I figured Outlook would need to do this. My provider, Earthlink, does not support FP 2003 extensions so I can't use the XML feature. I did stumble on some "add-ins" that take free text or HTML and create contacts so this might be the best route

Thanks again and I'll see what I can come up with on the Outlook group

Scott

 

[chris leeds]

there are no fp 2003 extensions. it's my understanding that the xml stuff
comes with/ from sharepoint.

could you place the links you found for the outlook autocreation stuff. I'd
like to see that.

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Stefan,

Thanks! Yeah, I figured Outlook would need to do this. My provider,

Earthlink, does not support FP 2003 extensions so I can't use the XML
feature. I did stumble on some "add-ins" that take free text or HTML and
create contacts so this might be the best route.