OL2003: This item contains active content blah

[kristan.mcdonald]

Hi all,

I'm having the problem whereby I want to allow the preview pane to show
the body text of a custom form I've written (none of my code alters the
message text) but outlook tells me I can't because it contains active
content. Fair enough, quick google reveals this kb article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331788/

however it applies to office XP, and I'm on 2003. I've applied the
regkey fix the article describes but it doesn't seem to work so it
hasn't carried through to the latest version. Either that or I've done
it wrong!

Any ideas/pointers?

Thanks,

Kristan

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you add the necessary registry value in the Office\11.0 hierarchy? Did you read this part of the article:

" This fix will only permit you to preview custom forms that do not have Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) code in them."

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

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

 

[kristan.mcdonald]

Yes to the first bit and no to the second. Oh well, thanks for your
help - told you it would be something I'd done wrong!

So is there any way to enable it for forms with VBS in them?

 

[Wolfram Jahn]

Did you add the necessary registry value in the Office\11.0 hierarchy? Did you read this part of the article:

" This fix will only permit you to preview custom forms that do not have Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) code in them."

Hi Sue and Kristan,

I have a comment on this topic:

We also have our custom form which cannot display active content,
BUT if I take an email message and assign the message class of our
custom form, then - surprise - Outlook (2000) shows the content in the
preview pane until we save the modified message. All the code of the
custom form works perfectly in this modified message, just custom action
context menus in the explorer view.

Unfortunately, I did not find any way to use this knowledge to show our
native custom forms items in the preview pane.

Seems to be a very strange quirk in Outlook.


Wolfram

 

[kristan.mcdonald]

I only really want the active content when composing the message, after
it's been sent it's pretty redundant. Is there any way to compose using
one form type and send as another? There seems to be that option in the
formswap program, but it doesn't seem to work as I expect in Outlook.

Thanks,

Kristan

 

[Wolfram Jahn]

I only really want the active content when composing the message, after
it's been sent it's pretty redundant. Is there any way to compose using
one form type and send as another? There seems to be that option in the
formswap program, but it doesn't seem to work as I expect in Outlook.

You may play with this scenario: create an Email, and as your last
action assign a different messageclass (that of your custom form).

But regarding our various experiences, I would guess that it won't work.
(It never does work if it would really help

Wolfram