Reply/Forward with Customized Forms

[Ivan Cespedes]

I've created a customized form for Outlook and it works great, except that I
MUST keep both the header and the message whenever I reply/reply to all or
forward the message.

Right now, if I reply/reply to all I can keep the subject of the message and
the message itself, but the customized header doesn't show. If I forward I
can keep everything except the subject and then I'd also have to enter every
e-mail address in the previous messages.

Any help is more than welcomed

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

What precisely do you mean by "the customized header"?

What's the mail environment? Are you able to publish forms to the Organizational Forms library on Exchange?

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

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

 

[Ivan Cespedes]

I'm talking about the fields I've designed and that do not appear when I
reply the e-mail.

I do not want to publish the form, I just want the *.oft file to be
distributed so everyone sends a x-type of information the same way.

I'm using Outlook 2003.

Thanks for your help

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Custom Outlook fields are not include in message headers as x- fields. The only way to get an x-header is to run code, and that is something an ..oft file cannot do.

You didn't answer the question about your mail environment.

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

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

 

[Ivan Cespedes]

BUMP.

What do you mean by environment? The server?

I tried to send you some screenshots of the fields I added to the header of
the form but I guess you didn't receive them. Again, I DON'T need to save
the info contained in the fields, I just need to distribute the info and keep
its integrity wheter anybody forwards or replies the e-mail.

What if I publish the form? Would this allow me to change the way
fowards/replys behave?

Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes, the mail environment means the server. I asked a specific question, which you haven't answered yet:

What if I publish the form? Would this allow me to change the way
fowards/replys behave?

Yes, for forwards and replies to a messages created with a custom form and published to the ORganizational Forms library, sent among users within an Exchange organization.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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

 

[Ivan Cespedes]

Exchange 2003.

Yes, the mail environment means the server. I asked a specific question, which you haven't answered yet:


Yes, for forwards and replies to a messages created with a custom form and published to the ORganizational Forms library, sent among users within an Exchange organization.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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

 

[Michael Hall]

Did we get an answer to this question? I have the same problem. We run
Exchange 2003 with Outlook XP and what I would like is to have my fields show
up in a preview pane when emailed and also show up in the reply message when
the recipient receives the email. Can this be done? Thanks, Michael

 

[Ivan Cespedes]

I did manage to have working by requesting permission from my network admin.
to publish the form into "Organizational Forms Library". You just have to
make sur you create an alternate form for the REPLY/FORWARD where you have
your fields locked (if you don't want other people to change the original
info).

However, the custom fields will not show in the preview pane... or at least
I have not been able to do it!

Hope this helps

Iván

 

[Michael Hall]

Thanks. I just read about the reply/forward. I will get that done. Michael

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook 2007 is the first version with the capability to show custom fields in the reading pane-- through its new form regions feature.

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

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