Creating email form for intranet web page

[Laura Vanderbilt]

Hello,

My objective is to have a form that can be filled out and sent to me from an
intranet web page. My approach thus far is to create an email file in
Outlook that contains all of the questions that need answering, set up with
form fields. When the visitor to this web page clicks on a link, it will
open this email file, already addressed to me, and they will be able to step
through the body of the email filling in the form fields. They can then hit
send, at which point I will receive the form with questions answered.

My first question is, am I taking the correct approach?

If so, my second question concerns drop-down menus. The checkbox and text
fields that I have placed in the form seem to be working. But the drop-down
menu is not. The field area appears, but the "down arrow" button does not
appear next to the field, so there is no access to the drop-down list. I
have already double-checked the Drop Down Form Field Options to make sure
that "Drop-down enabled" has been checked. Is there anything else I should
be looking at to get this drop-down list to work?

I am working on Outlook 2003, and my system is using an Exchange server. I
should be able to get access to the Organization Forms Library if necessary.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

1) That could be a good approach if you can publish to the Organizational Forms library. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/formonweb.htm for code to launch a published form from a web page.

2) How are you setting the rows for the list?

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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