Thanks Sue,
I took a look at your book at Borders Books... Wow there is a lot o
stuff in there. I'm not a programmer so this is all seems way over m
head... but I desperately need a solution.
I'm in deep SH** co workers have figured out they can pass off thei
issues on to my department... It comes down to There is no records o
accountability for me to back my counter claims of requests an
submissions that were filed. I’m simply the fall guy. So I need t
Cover my A** and document everything. Having a policy to request ad
by filling out a form will eliminate any discrepancy. But will als
allow me to track all of my current ad insertions if senior managemen
wants to see what we have done or what we will be doing.
I’m looking to build a form within outlook for my co workers to reques
advertising materials from me. Once I get that request, I want th
control to post it in a tasks timeline view by simply booking it wit
the form information provided to me via the request. AKA (ad du
date,Ad reservation date, Ad running start date and ad running end dat
and where it's to run.)
I would like to post it so everybody can see their request and all th
information I create pertaining to it via a restricted task timelin
view. They will be able to see their ad, where it is running, ho
long and cost. If there is an error it’s their error because i
exactly what they submitted.
I also would like a response notice for that ad going back to them wit
the specs, times, cost and other info pertaining to it.
For myself I would use the form to create records of what ads I a
running, where, how long and cost with out receiving a request. Ther
are times I just push ads with out having them requested. It would b
great to generate a Notice with the specs going out to my stores i
that instance. I figure the original request form would work with mino
adjustments. I've begun building the form for the request, it has th
elements I am looking for but the actual functionality and coding i
not working. Picking apart the templates has allowed me to get wher
I’m at now.
A little background…I’m using the business contact add-on for outlook.
I set up the branch stores I service as the Accounts and the Managers o
those stores act as the Primary contacts linked to that accounts. I
the request for Advertisement form I would like the contact informatio
fields to self populate with information from the business contact
depending on which branch is requesting the information. A date/tim
picker with the ability to add a couple of days to it would be handy
It would force anybody who requests an ad to get it to me on time
Rather than giving me the request the same day it is due to th
printer.
Where do I start?
Sorry this is a bunch of stuff… after reading several posts I notice
that most here post their problem code and you recommend how to fix it
I don’t have any code only Ideas of how my system would look an
function.
Any help would be HUGE… my thanks everybody for reading this.
Mie
