Creating custom form and sending as an e-mail

[Benjamin708]

Hello
I have a pretty begginer's level question here. I have Outlook 2002 with
Exchange 2000 on the back end. I want to create a cutome form and let a
couple people send it as an e-mail. I know how to use the forms designer in
Outlook. But where do I publish it to? And how does the user go about
selecting to use that form, rather than the default message form? And how
about the recipient, how do they see the form if it is not installed on their
box?

Thanks in advanced.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you want to send this form to people in your own Exchange organization,
it needs to be published in either the central Organizational Forms library
or each user's own Personal Forms library.

You can launch a form with the Tools | Forms | Choose Form command.

What's the purpose of this form? Does this form have code behind it?

 

[Benjamin708]

The purpose for this form is to send and receive standardized data.
Basically a user will send this form to a manager, requesting permission to
begin a project. The manager will either approve or deny. This is one of
several forms I need to create.

I don't believe I will need to have any programming involved with this
solution. I am hoping that I won't. I have a couple more questions...

1. Is there a way that I can create a shortcut in Outlook to lauch a new
iteration of the form so the user doesn't have to do the Tools | Forms |
Choose Form command?

2. Is there a way that when the form is sent, the recipient can just enter
in the response and click on a send button? That is to say that the user
would not have to click Reply, but rather would just be able to enter
information and send.

Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

1) See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/launchform.htm for various ways to make
it easy to launch a form.

2) If the "response" is just to approve or deny, you can handle that with
voting buttons.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Benjamin708]

Thank you so much!!!!!! That was very helpful.

By the way, I just recently bought your book: Microsoft Outlook Programming,
Jumpstart for Administrators, Developers, and Power Users. I hope this helps
get me more up to speed.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

There's a good section in there about running code in response to voting
buttons that might be quite relevant. Be sure to download the sample code
from the web site (see sig)
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers