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Bill Le May - 06 Oct 2004 22:34 GMT
I 'm trying to assign the icons for an Outlook form published to a public
folder. I am not one-offing it, nor do I *ever* send the form definition
with an item.  The icons appear as expected in the Properties page when
editing the form.  The small icon appears as expected when I pull up the
Form Properties dialog from the Forms Manager under Public Folder
Properties.

When I view the list of items in the public folder, they all have the
unopened email icon.  That surprises me because they are based on the Post
item, not Message. I don't believe the icon is at fault because I have tried
changing the form's icon to various standard forms icons.  It never changes
from the unopened email icon.  If I do a normal Post in This Folder, the
icon is that of a Post item.

I googled up newsgroup postings on this subject, and one person said he had
to re-publish the form under a different name. That didn't help. So far
nothing has.

I'm using Outlook 2003 SP1 under Windows XP SP2.

Thanks for any ideas.

Bill
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 06 Oct 2004 23:22 GMT
How are items getting into this public folder -- manually or by mail? What
is the MessageClass value for the items?

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>I 'm trying to assign the icons for an Outlook form published to a public
>folder. I am not one-offing it, nor do I *ever* send the form definition
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> Bill
Bill - 07 Oct 2004 01:19 GMT
The forms are posted by the New <form-name> command in the Actions menu. I'm
authoring the form from my PC, publishing to a public folder that I'm an
Owner of, then creating a new <form-name>.  Class is IPM.Post.<form-name>

> How are items getting into this public folder -- manually or by mail? What
> is the MessageClass value for the items?
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>> Bill
Bill Le May - 07 Oct 2004 14:54 GMT
> How are items getting into this public folder -- manually or by mail? What
> is the MessageClass value for the items?

Here (I hope this works)

http://tinyurl.com/5jzyh

is a screen cap.  The public folder is called Coconuts (long story). The
form properties dialog shows the coconut icon, shows the message class, but
the icon in the folder view is an email. I created a couple simple Post
items in the same folder to show they appear normal.
Bill Le May - 20 Oct 2004 21:45 GMT
I eventually stumbled onto the answer, then Googled a post confirming it.
In Outlook 2003 only 16 color icons will work for forms.
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 29 Oct 2004 14:48 GMT
Thanks. I'll make sure that's documented on my page at
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms.htm

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    Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
    Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
    http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

>I eventually stumbled onto the answer, then Googled a post confirming it.
>In Outlook 2003 only 16 color icons will work for forms.
 
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