Disappearing voting buttons

[amarmaj]

Hi,

I'm designing an Outlook(2003) form to be emailed to end users.
Essentially it needs to have two buttons on it. One which, when clicked
will run a powerpoint show and also send a mail back to me, (the
sender) saying that the recipient clicked the button. The second will
just send a simple acknowledgement back to me.

I have got this all to work fine, using normal Voting buttons and a
mixture of Item_CustomAction code. The form is published on my pc and
when I send it to myself it works as intended. The problems arise
however, when I send this form to another user. They do not see the
voting buttons at all.

If I 'one off' the form, the recipient CAN see the buttons but the code
does not run. If I don't 'one off' the form, the recipient does not see
the buttons at all?? I have also tried using normal command buttons
instead of voting buttons but again no luck.

I'm really stuck. I've been reading multiple posts in this and the
outlook vba group and also Sue Mosher's site but alas, still no joy.

thanks for any help
Amar

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Publish the form to the Organizational Forms library or to each user's Personal Forms library.

 

[amarmaj]

Thanks Sue.
So are you saying that in principle one cannot design a form with
various buttons on it, publish it to ones own own machine and the email
it to an end user and expect that user to see the form controls on the
mail that they receive??

If this is indeed the case, then what you suggest is the only
alternative or (if the admin guys refuse this) then I'll have to think
of some other means.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, I'm saying that if you want code to run on a message form when the recipient get is, the recipient must have access to the published form definition. That means publication either in Org Forms or in the user's Personal Forms library.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[amarmaj]

Understood.
Thanks again.

No, I'm saying that if you want code to run on a message form when the recipient get is, the recipient must have access to the published form definition. That means publication either in Org Forms or in the user's Personal Forms library.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers