Field Chooser on Customer forms items empty

[Dave Hauer]

when I open the field chooser in a custom Outlook form and select the
current custom form, there are no items listed in the list. There are
plenty of customer objects on the form that should be available.
Any ideas why these customer objects are not showing up?
Thanks!
Dave H

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you try using the dropdown list at the top of the Field Chooser to choose
a different set of fields?

What do you mean by "customer objects"?

 

[DBH]

Yes, and when I select the actual custom form in the drop down box, no field
are present, and there should be a bunch!
syntax error on my part, I meant custom (not customer) objects like all the
text boxes, etc.
Thanks!
Dave Hauer

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Not necessarily. It's quite possible to design a form where the field
definitions don't actually reside in the form -- they're only in the folder
instead. You can check this on the form's (All Fields) page by comparing the
contents of the two "User Properties" lists. The article at
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=29 describes best practices for
adding the field definitions to both the form and the folder, which is the
ideal situation.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[DBH]

This is weird because I know that at one time, the fields would be available
when I did this.
I looked at the link you suggested. My question is that this form resides
on the form server. do I need to post/anchor this form to a folder to revive
the ability to see the fields in field chooser?
Thanks again!
Dave Hauer

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

"Form server"? Do you mean that the form is published to the Organizational
Forms library? What type of form is it? What did you see when you looked at
the All Fields page? How many custom properties should it have?
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[DBH]

yes, published to our Organizational forms server. The form is based on a
IPM.Note, all customed up!
When I go to the all fields page and select USER-DEFINED fields in this item
in the select from box, my text box etc names show up. when I choose the
name of the form, nada! I do have a bunch of fields and several tabs
Regards,
Dave Hauer

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

How are you choosing the form in the Field Chooser? Try going through the
Forms... option, which will bring up a dialog where you can choose the form.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[DBH]

Tried that as well already! You have trained me well!
Dave Hauer

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If that didn't work, then what's left is to use the fields in a folder. If
you designed a message form, then the custom fields are probably already
defined in the Inbox and you can use those

FWIW, I think this might be all related to the tighter security on Outlook
custom property usage that requires fields to be defined in a folder to be
usable in most cases.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[DBH]

I checked the inbox and its strange, not all the fields show up!
Dave

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can create the field definitions in the folder manually, though, as
needed.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54