Need Help with Custom Forms

[John Lane]

I created a test custom message form with one field in addition to To: From:
and CC:. I then used to email to myself. The message that turned up in the
InBox did not have the custom new field. What did I do wrong? Am I somehow
supposed to define a new Inbox template or something? Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you publish the form to the Organizational Forms library or each user's Personal Forms library? Did you leave the "send form definition with item" box unchecked?

Did you remember to click Edit Read Page to create a read layout that contains a control to display the new field?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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

 

[John Lane]

Yep (I forgot!). Thanks. While you here --- how do I email the custom form to
someone? Thanks again.

 

[John Lane]

OK, I just put the field on the Edit Read Page. Previously (on 24?) I had
unchecked the "send form definition with item" check box and the form is in a
new library. And it still does not display the new custom field after it is
sent (to myself).

 

[John Lane]

Hurray! I checked the "send form definition with item" and it worked! Ok, so
now how do I distribute the thing? Everything I read is pretty confusing.
Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, no, that won't work in the long run.

How you distribute it depends on whether you're working in an organization that uses Exchange as its mail server.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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