Newbie Needs Help

[CheekyD]

Hey Everyone.

Yes I know that newbies are the bain of everyones' life, but ya gotta start
somewhere right?

Ive designed a form for Outlook 2000 and got everything laid out nice n
pretty, got various tabs and looks great.

So far so good, I've published the form and everything works fine up to
sending it.
All the fields can be filled in fine etc, but once the form has been mailed
to whoever, it comes back blank i.e nothing filled in.

Can anyone shed some light on this please?
Thanks very much
Danny

 

[castle8000]

Hey Everyone.

Yes I know that newbies are the bain of everyones' life, but ya gotta start
somewhere right?

Ive designed a form for Outlook 2000 and got everything laid out nice n
pretty, got various tabs and looks great.

So far so good, I've published the form and everything works fine up to
sending it.
All the fields can be filled in fine etc, but once the form has been mailed
to whoever, it comes back blank i.e nothing filled in.

You have to "link" the Textboxes, etc to fields in the folder. Do it with a
click (with the right mouse button),
select the tab "Value" and click on the button "new". By doing this, you
create a new field in the folder.

If you want the information to be send, then i think you have to add some
code like:

Item.Userproperties.add <propname>, 1 ' 1 for text
Item.Userproperties.Find(<propname>).Value =
Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages(<Page on your Outlook form>).TextBox1.text

MS did not give us a comfortable way to access textboxes, etc, so you will
lways have to do it by typing Item.GetInspectro.<...>


regards,

Fabian Werner

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The most likely newbie mistake is that you didn't click the Edit Read Layout
button and create a read layout to match the compose layout. No code is
required. Just make sure that each control on the read layout is bound to
the same field as the matching control on the compose layout -- check the
Value tab of each control's Properties dialog.