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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming Forms / October 2006Help Creating a Message Form
I'm new to Outlook and I'm having a little problem designing a form that integrates with an email message. What I want to do is add a checkbox to an email that the recipient can then check off to indicate that the work that was done is satisfactory. I created a form in outlook that is based on the message form. I added a checkbox on the right side of the form and published it to a new folder that I created. When I select New Form from the actions menu, I see the checkbox. If I then fill out the "To" email address and send the form to myself, I only see the email portion of the message, and not checkbox. I'm sure that I'm doing something obvious to cause this, but I was hoping that someone could point out my error. Thanks in advance. Before you go any further down this road, let's make sure you can meet the minimum requirements for making this kind of form work: 1) All recipients using Outlook. 2) Ability to publish the custom message form to either the Organizational Forms library on your company's Exchange server or to each recipient's Personal Forms library.  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 > I'm new to Outlook and I'm having a little problem designing a form > that integrates with an email message. What I want to do is add a [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > that I'm doing something obvious to cause this, but I was hoping that > someone could point out my error. Thanks in advance. I'd be able to publish it in the Organizational Forms library. Is that the cause of the problem? That the form isn't available at the receiving end? I didn't think that would be the case, since I don't see the form when I email it to myself. > Before you go any further down this road, let's make sure you can meet the minimum requirements for making this kind of form work: > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > that I'm doing something obvious to cause this, but I was hoping that > > someone could point out my error. Thanks in advance. That's potentially part of the problem. Another possible issue: Did you forget to click the Edit Read Page button and create a read layout showing the fields that contain the data? 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 > I'd be able to publish it in the Organizational Forms library. Is that > the cause of the problem? That the form isn't available at the [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> > that I'm doing something obvious to cause this, but I was hoping that >> > someone could point out my error. Thanks in advance. Hi Sue, I have a similar problem in sending a form from Word. The form arrives in Outlook beautifully except that the content of drop-down menus does not display. Would the Edit->Read Page you describe here work? Also, I didn't see that on my Outlook menu. Regards, Trouvera > That's potentially part of the problem. Another possible issue: Did you forget to click the Edit Read Page button and create a read layout showing the fields that contain the data? > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > >> > that I'm doing something obvious to cause this, but I was hoping that > >> > someone could point out my error. Thanks in advance. > I have a similar problem in sending a form from Word. The form arrives in > Outlook beautifully except that the content of drop-down menus does not > display. Would the Edit->Read Page you describe here work? Also, I didn't > see that on my Outlook menu. Before you send in Word, you want to save the List value of the drop-down control to an Outlook list field and the index value of the control to a outlook numeric field, and add code to your Item Open list to initialize the list box from the fields. -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA Would it work (and be easier?) if I save the file in Word, and then attach it and do a mailto? That was my next plan.....thanks. > > I have a similar problem in sending a form from Word. The form arrives in > > Outlook beautifully except that the content of drop-down menus does not [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Hollis Paul > Mukilteo, WA USA Do a mailto where? If you send a Word file as an attachment, then it will act like a Word file. Outlook is not involved at all, except as the way to get it from point A to point B . 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 > Would it work (and be easier?) if I save the file in Word, and then attach it > and do a mailto? That was my next plan.....thanks. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> Hollis Paul >> Mukilteo, WA USA A Word form won't translate into an email message. The original poster was referring to a custom Outlook form. 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 > Hi Sue, > I have a similar problem in sending a form from Word. The form arrives in [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >> >> > that I'm doing something obvious to cause this, but I was hoping that >> >> > someone could point out my error. Thanks in advance. |
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