Output of form

[Kenny Blair]

My company recently switched to Outlook 2003 from a mainframe based email
system (TAO). I am in the process of developing forms to replace forms that
were used in the old system.

Whenever I use the new form, the resulting email shows only my signature and
nothing from the form.

Does anyone have any hints as to what I need to change/add to fix this?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

When designing the form, did you use the Edit Read Page button to create a
read layout for recipients to view? Did you publish it to the Organizational
Forms library on your company's Exchange server, with the "send form
definition with item" box unchecked?

 

[Kenny Blair]

When designing the form, did you use the Edit Read Page button to create a
read layout for recipients to view?

Yes


Did you publish it to the Organizational Forms library on your company's
Exchange server, with the "send form definition with item" box unchecked?

I published the form to my "Personal Forms Library"


This is my first attempt at using Outlook for anything other than my mail
client. I have been programming in VB for about 15 years (mainframe
languages for more that I care to admit). What moves the values that are
entered in the fields on the form to the email that is generated and sent to
the recipients?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

If you published only to your own Personal Forms library, you're the only
recipient who can see the form UI. If you cannot publish to the Org Forms
library, then the form will work only if published to each user's Personal
Forms library.

 

[Kenny Blair]

I sent the form to myself.

If you published only to your own Personal Forms library, you're the only
recipient who can see the form UI. If you cannot publish to the Org Forms
library, then the form will work only if published to each user's Personal
Forms library.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54





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[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

More likely, you sent an item created from the form. The form is nothing
more than a code/UI template and is not sent with the item. (Hence the need
to have the form definition available to the recipient.)

What is the value of the MessageClass property for the item? What Outlook
version?

I don't understand your question about "what moves the values"? Could you
restate it? Thanks.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54