Help - Urgent - I get the following MAPI error when trying to publish my custom form

[Uriel Mondrowicz]

Hi All,

I have created a custom form to use on a public Exchange folder in my
organization.
I worked just great.
Now, after making a minor change to the code behind, I tried to publish the
updated form to the same folder, and got this error:

Internal MAPI error: an invalid parameter was passed to a MAPI function.
Contact your administrator.

Now I noticed that when trying to open the custom form or create a new one
on the public folder from my dev machine, it opens it as the basic Task form
instead.
When opening from another machine it opens great as the custom form.

What is the meaning of this error, and what can I do to make it work?
What is the problem on my machine (related to forms cache???)?

Thanks,

Uriel.

 

[psb]

we have had this before. Try publishing the forms again.
Might be problem in the item_write event in your form if
you have modified it. Also try publishing it a few times
if it doesn't go through.

we develop office add-ins too! www.abistech.com

 

[Hollis D. Paul]

What is the meaning of this error, and what can I do to make it work?
What is the problem on my machine (related to forms cache???)?

You really should publish the form with a different name, that is, put
the version number as part of the name. This is the only way to ensure
that the new form is used and the old cached form is ignored. Then you
use one of the free utilities to change the message class of old items
in the form to the new name.

To solve the existing problem, publish the form to your local library
and then use the forms manager to delete the old form in the public
folder, and then move the new form into the public folder.

Why are you not publishing the form to the Organizational Forms
Library? That is the first place that Outlook will look for the form,
and it should be quicker to open.

Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
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