List Box

[gEo]

I need to create a form in which the following occurs:
1. When creating a new message. A drop down list appears with choices 1 thru
10
2. User CANNOT send the email until one of the choices in the list is selected
Please help - Thanks in advance!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Who are the target recipients for this form -- internal or external? Does your organization use Exchange as its mail server?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[gEo]

Sue,
The target recipients will be BOTH Internal and External, and YES - we use
Exchange Server 2000

 

[gEo]

Target Recipients are BOTH Internal and External, and YES, we use Exchanger
Server 2000

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you have external recipients, then a custom form may not be a good solution unless you approach it quite differently. The reason is that any item you create with a custom form will have a Winmail.dat TNEF wrapper component that will hide any file attachments from non-Outlook recipients. The workaround would be to use code in the form's Item_Send event to create an entirely new message that duplicates the one being sent but doesn't use a custom form.

In any case, see http://www.outlookcode.com/d/formcontrols.htm#listcombo for infomration on adding a combo box and setting its list. You can validate it on the Validation tab of the control's Properties dialog.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[gEo]

Sue, I figured it out.
I created a ComboBox which is "tied" to the SUBJECT field. When a user
CHOOSES a subject from the list - it populates the Subject field, and,
therefore, IS sent to EXTERNAL email addresses - THANKS for ALL the advise...

 

[gEo]

Sue,
I figured it out - I created a ComboBox that is "tied" to the SUBJECT field
- when a user selects a Subject - it populates the Subject field - and, is
sent to BOTH internal AND external recipients

THANKS for ALL your advise !!
--
gEo

Target Recipients are BOTH Internal and External, and YES, we use Exchanger
Server 2000

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Bad idea if you're sending attachments. Any non-Outlook recipient won't get them if you send a message with this custom form.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[gEo]

Strange...
I TESTED the SEND function WITH attachments to my yahoo,hotmail, AND comcast
email address - event to friends using NON outlook email programs -
attachments were SENT every time...

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You got lucky. The normal behavior is for the attachments to be wrapped in a Winmail.dat TNEF part that only Outlook can open. Maybe your Exchange server is doing some outbound conversion. Or maybe you just have a really old version of Outlook.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Strange...
I TESTED the SEND function WITH attachments to my yahoo,hotmail, AND comcast
email address - event to friends using NON outlook email programs -
attachments were SENT every time...