Newbie Form Design Question

[SerialNumberOne]

Is it possible to modify the message form to have a pull-down menu as
part of the Subject box?

i.e. Conference Meeting at [pull-down selection] where pull-down
selection is a list of locations

Conference Room 1
Conference Room 2
Conference Room 3
Conference Room 4

I have tried this a number of times in the form design but have not
been able to make it work.

Any help would be apppreciated.

TAD


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[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Yes, but you'd have to do the customization on a custom page, not on the main page, which makes it less likely to be useful. You'd use two custom text fields, one for the name of the meeting bound to a text box, the other for the location bound to a combo box. The user would type in the meeting name, then make the location selection. A formula behind the Subject field would then concatenate them:

[Meeting Name] & " at " & [Meeting Location]

You could also try using the built-in Location field, but that might present oddities if you're using resource accounts.
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