Programming forms

[Arne Garvander]

Where do I find information about programming forms?
How do I program who the recipient of a form would be?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You might start at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms.htm

A form never has recipients. An Outlook form is a UI/code template. What has recipients is a message created from a custom form? (And custom message forms are, in general, a bad idea, useful in only narrow circumstances, as discussed in this forum at least once a week.) For such a message, the user either enters the recipients manually as with standard messages or the VBScript code behind the form sets them programmatically.

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

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

 

[dch3]

Are you thinking of a template perhaps?

 

[Arne Garvander]

Sue,
Thanks for you answer. I appreciate you website.
I thought the purpose of a form was to make a request and forward it to
someone that can fulfill it.
I have an existing Travel Request form that needs to be forwarded to one of
four travel coordinator.
I have found the code and only one of my four coordinators regularly gets
the request.
(We have had a lot of problems with IMF that deletes some of our proper
mail. Maybe it is the villian.)
--
Arne Garvander
(I program VB.Net for fun and C# to get paid.)

You might start at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms.htm

A form never has recipients. An Outlook form is a UI/code template. What has recipients is a message created from a custom form? (And custom message forms are, in general, a bad idea, useful in only narrow circumstances, as discussed in this forum at least once a week.) For such a message, the user either enters the recipients manually as with standard messages or the VBScript code behind the form sets them programmatically.

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

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

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Do you use Exchange as your mail server? Is the form published to the Organizational Forms library, with the "send form definition with item" box on the form's (Properties) page unchecked? Is the Forward action on the form's (Actions) page set to use the same published custom form? If the answer to all of these is not Yes, you are likely to have problems.

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

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

Sue,
Thanks for you answer. I appreciate you website.
I thought the purpose of a form was to make a request and forward it to
someone that can fulfill it.
I have an existing Travel Request form that needs to be forwarded to one of
four travel coordinator.
I have found the code and only one of my four coordinators regularly gets
the request.
(We have had a lot of problems with IMF that deletes some of our proper
mail. Maybe it is the villian.)