Custom Form and Active Content

[Christie Sorenson]

Hello,
I have a custom message form that has vbscript code
behind. I also have a COM Addin.

Everything in the custom form is needed before I send the
message so once I send the message, I set the MessageClass
back to IPM.Note.

However, I still get the "cannot display in preview pane
because of active content" message. I have tried deleting
the {0820060000000000C000000000000046}0x8510 property, but
it always gets put back in.

As I don't need or want to send the custom form, is there
anything I can do besides creating a new message to clear
the "active content" property?

Thank you!
Christie

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Not really, just copy your custom form item to a new standard item. Once a
form has code in it or had code in it you can't view it in the preview pane.

 

[Christie Sorenson]

Thank you for your quick response. I'm sure this is an
obvious question, but how do you copy your custom form
item to a new standard item through a COM addin? Do I
have to copy field by field?

Thank you again,
Christie

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Set oCopy = oItem.Copy

 

[Christie Sorenson]

Hmm. This doesn't seem to work for me...it seems to copy
the entire thing including the script flag.
I feel I must be missing something huge here because I
would imagine I'm not the only person to want to have a
custom message form with code behind that displays in the
recievers preview pane...

Thank you for all your help,
Christie

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

I wasn't sure if it would also copy the form code. Then you'll have to copy
field by field into a new item.

Other people might want to see forms like that in the preview pane but it
isn't going to happen. Code read in preview will fire the Item_Read event
and if that event handler has malware code in it that code would run. It's a
security risk so MS is not going to allow it.