Template\Form

[Ronda Van Kleeck]

I have one user when he opens a Outlook Template\Form (a file with a .oft
extension) outside of Outlook, it does not open the form. Instead, it opens
a blank e-mail. When other people open the same Template\Form outside of
Outlook, the form opens up successfully for them.

The user File Association for .OFT is set to Microsoft Office.
The Open command is set to: C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /t "%1.

Everyone is Running Outlook 2003 with SP2. Any ideas?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Beginning with Outlook 2003 SP2, users can work with most .oft form templates files only by opening the template from the Tools | Forms | Choose Form dialog, browsing for User Templates in File System. This means that if the .oft file is sent as a message attachment, the user must save it to the local hard drive first.

The article at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=907985 explains this change in more detail, suggests best practices, and provides registry keys that can return Outlook 2003 to the older, less secure behavior.

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

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Ronda Van Kleeck]

Thank you! Thank you!

Once the user saved the *.oft template\form to the C:\Documents and
Settings\<userid>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates folder, the form
opened up instead of a blank email.

But this is interesting:
Everyone (including) the user with the problem is running Outlook 2003 SP2.
Only this one user had to save the *.oft template\form to his local drive.
No one else has the form saved to their local drive and the form opens up for
them outside of Outlook. NOTE: The *.oft template\form is saved in
"organizational forms library".

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

DId you read the article at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=907985, which explains this change in more detail, suggests best practices, and provides registry keys that can return Outlook 2003 to the older, less secure behavior.

NOTE: The *.oft template\form is saved in
"organizational forms library".

No, that's not possible. The Org Forms library does not contain files, not even .oft files. It contains only published forms. There is no connection between an .oft file and a published form. Furthermore, if the form is in fact published, why are you working with the .oft files?
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54