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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming Forms / January 2006Problems in Outlook 2003 SP2 - CreateItemFromTemplate
The code line written below emerges a "Select Folder" dialog. Such behavior is untolerated whilst publishing forms programically. REPRODUCE: export any Message (IPM.Note) or Post (IPM.Post) custom form to a . oft file. Within VBA editor execute the following command: Application.CreateItemFromTemplate("c:\exported.oft", Application.Session. GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)) - replace c:\exported.oft with corresponding path and file name of your form - second argument may point to any Outlook folder or can be omitted -- Select folder dialog pops up all the time. Could you please help with this issue?.. Thank you in advance This is normal and expected behavior for an unpublished post form. I'll take your word that it also happens for a message form, but I haven't seen it. The behavior can't be changed. If the goal is to publish such forms programmatically without prompts, there is another approach you can take: Distribute published forms in a .pst file. You can then use the MAPIFolder.Items.Add method to create an item using the published form and then, from that item, publish to any other desired location.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > The code line written below emerges a "Select Folder" dialog. Such behavior > is untolerated whilst publishing forms programically. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Thank you in advance However, everything works without prompts in any other Outlook version but 2003 SP2.. This should be included into the list of new limitations in SP2 >This is normal and expected behavior for an unpublished post form. I'll take your word that it also happens for a message form, but I haven't seen it. The behavior can't be changed. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >> Thank you in advance > If the goal is to publish such forms programmatically without prompts, there is another approach you can take: Distribute published forms in a ..pst file. You can then use the MAPIFolder.Items.Add method to create an item using the published form and then, from that item, publish to any other desired location. Thank You, Sue. However, your offered workaroud is far from trivial when implementing it in a product. Could there be any other solutions? Can we call this a new undocumented limitation of Office 2003 Service Pack 2 ? What does Microsoft has to say about it?.. Thank you, folks, in advance! Signaturesledge > > The code line written below emerges a "Select Folder" dialog. Such behavior > > is untolerated whilst publishing forms programically. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > Thank you in advance There is a KB article at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=907985 documenting changes made in SP2 relating to custom properties in unpublished forms. It doesn't mention the prompts that you are encountering, but we Outlook MVPs have concluded that they are an undocumented side effect of the same changes. Needless to say, it's not a pretty situation, given how many people rely on CreateItemFromTemplate for simple form publishing chores. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >> If the goal is to publish such forms programmatically without prompts, there is another approach you can take: Distribute published forms in a ..pst file. You can then use the MAPIFolder.Items.Add method to create an item using the published form and then, from that item, publish to any other desired location. > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> > - second argument may point to any Outlook folder or can be omitted -- >> > Select folder dialog pops up all the time. Can we call this a new undocumented limitation of Office 2003 Service Pack 2 ? As such 'Select Folder', when publishing form, does not appear in any other Outlook version except for Outlook 2003 with its newest SP2.. >This is normal and expected behavior for an unpublished post form. I'll take your word that it also happens for a message form, but I haven't seen it. The behavior can't be changed. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >> Thank you in advance Could you post your .oft files somewhere or mail them to me at webmaster@outlookcode.com? The post form prompt issue seems to be common and known, but the message form prompting is quite unusual. I couldn't duplicate it here. Any information you could provide on how that form was created might be helpful. Thanks. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > The code line written below emerges a "Select Folder" dialog. Such behavior > is untolerated whilst publishing forms programically. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Thank you in advance >Could you post your .oft files somewhere or mail them to me at webmaster@outlookcode.com? The post form prompt issue seems to be common and known, but the message form prompting is quite unusual. I couldn't duplicate it here. Any information you could provide on how that form was created might be helpful. Thanks. Pardon me, I have got confused here, as I publish IPM.Note.Message, thus the part 'Note.' has omitted in my mind. Confirmed: IPM.Message.* does not trigger such behaviour. Thank you for investigating this with me, -- sledge Now I'm confused. IPM.Message.* would be a custom-built MAPI form, not a form built on one of the Outlook basics forms. IPM.Note.* would be a custom Outlook form based on the message form. So, what forms are triggering a prompt with CreateItemFromTemplate? SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >>Could you post your .oft files somewhere or mail them to me at webmaster@outlookcode.com? The post form prompt issue seems to be common and known, but the message form prompting is quite unusual. I couldn't duplicate it here. Any information you could provide on how that form was created might be helpful. Thanks. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > -- > sledge IPM.Message.* -- there would be no of such form. Just ignore it, as where I accidently typed IPM.Message, I ment IPM.Note. Pardon me again :) >Now I'm confused. IPM.Message.* would be a custom-built MAPI form, not a form built on one of the Outlook basics forms. IPM.Note.* would be a custom Outlook form based on the message form. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> -- >> sledge I have news for this issue: Lastest Security patch called 1/9/2006 Security Update for Outlook 2003 (KB892843) (English version) (I've gotten it via http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx, whole info though nothing relevant: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892843) fixes this problem ("Select folder does not appear"), but introduces a bunch of more: look other post, called "Problems with lastest Security Update for Outlook 2003 (KB892843, 1/9/2006)" >The code line written below emerges a "Select Folder" dialog. Such behavior >is untolerated whilst publishing forms programically. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Thank you in advance OT: Why did my latter reply did not appear in MS Newsgroups (http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public .outlook.program_forms&tid=85e78014-73b5-4a22-a965-8d201f889eb7&p=1&ntf=1) ? >I have news for this issue: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> >>Thank you in advance |
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