Checkbox Action

[TimT]

hello!,
I'm designing a type of submittal form so that someone can submit a request
with an attached file for approval from management.
When an approval checkbox on the form is checked by management, I would like
it to reply to sender and to myself so that I can track the approved files
and so that I can place them on the firm's intranet site.
I'm new to writing code in Outlook and I'm not sure how to write the above
action.
Can someone offer some help?

 

[Hollis D. Paul]

I'm new to writing code in Outlook and I'm not sure how to write the above
action.
Can someone offer some help?

The usual way is to bind the checkbox to a user-defined-field, and put code
in the UserProperties event to detect when it changes.

Go to www.outlook-code.com for samples. Also, search in www.slipstick.com
for information.

Here is stuff from a page in outlook-code.com:
http://www.outlook-code.com/d/formcontrols.htm#options

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Also known as radio buttons, option buttons are a good choice if you need the
user to pick from a small number of mutually exclusive choices.
On the Value tab of each button's Properties dialog, bind each button in a
set to the same Outlook property and set a unique value for each button.

To work with your option buttons in code, you can use a Select Case
statement:

Select Case Item.UserProperties("Radio Button")
Case "Red" ' value of first button
' do something
Case "Green" ' value of second button
' do something else
Case "Blue" ' value of third button
' and now for something completely different
End Select


The above example assumes that you assigned a string representing a color to
each buttons.

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(More details on the actual page.)

The check box will work just like a radio button, except the value is True or
False.


Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
(e-mail address removed)
Mukilteo, WA USA