Location of fields in Custom Form Application

[Eddie McGlone]

Hi all.

I have been running a customised contact form in a public folder in our
Exchange Server 5.5. When doing a mail merge from Outlook, some of the
custom fields were not showing up in Word.

On reading a couple of pages at Slipstick, I see that the custom field has
to be in the list of "User defined fields in folder". The field has so far
been part of a form published in the Organisational Forms Library.
I can get the mail merge working by creating a field in the folder using the
field chooser in my Outlook view but does this duplicate the field somewhere
and am I creating potential problems here? What's the best strategy?

Cheers

Ed

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

You are following the best strategy -- creating the fields in the folder whenever you need to do more than see the data in an individual item.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Eddie McGlone]

Thanks Sue.

Does it matter that the fields are still contained in the form also?

Ed
You are following the best strategy -- creating the fields in the folder
whenever you need to do more than see the data in an individual item.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Not at all, as long as the data types match.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers