Form Not Displayed

[Celeste M]

Sue - I have a custom message form (no VBA code) that the
author uses to assign reviewers to a document. That
document gets attached to the form. Each reviewer has
his/her own page of instructions. The form is sent to each
of them with instructions to make edits to attached file
and reply back to author with the very same attachment.
Each reviewer also has checkboxes and comment fields on
each form tab to fill in as appropriate. I built a second
form primarily from the first form that is working pretty
well (had "Start" action based on "Ipm.note" under Form
Action Properties. The new form looks very similar to the
old one but when the reviewer tries to launch the "Start"
action after having received the email from the author,
the following message comes up: The form you selected
could not be displayed". The Message Class on this second
faulty form is simply "message", not IPM.note. How can I
get this new faulty form to work correctly? Couldn't find
anything on this in your book or Web (slipstick.com or
outlookcode.com). Thanks in advance.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Message = IPM.Note

I'm not clear on whether you want the default message form to appear or your
custom form.

 

[Celeste M]

The receiver of my form does not see "Start" button or the
form at all. I published my form in the recipient's
personal forms folder. How can I have the "Start" button
displayed when the recipient opens my form (after I send
it to him)? When I send the form to myself, it works just
fine. Recipient is using Outlook 2000. My form was
developed in Outlook 2002.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Make sure you're sending to a recipient address marked for rich-text
format -- double-click the underlined email address to check. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sendform.htm for other issues that might get in
the way.

Also, what form is the Start button set to launch?

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