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Eric - 10 Mar 2008 15:23 GMT

I have created a form, and published it to a draft folder as it is not ready
for wide use. When I go back in to select the form from my draft folder,
everything looks great. The problem is after filling out the form and
sending it to myself as a test, the form does not send. The only fields that
send are the Subject and the Message box at the bottom. What am I missing?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 10 Mar 2008 15:45 GMT

Forms are never sent. Forms are only UI/code templates. What gets sent is a message whose MessageClass property points to a published custom form. Outlook, however, has no way of knowing that an item in the Inbox needs to use a form that is published to the Drafts folder. For testing purposes, you should publish the form to your Personal Forms library. For production use, it will need to be published to the Organizational Forms library on the Exchange server.

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>I have created a form, and published it to a draft folder as it is not ready
> for wide use. When I go back in to select the form from my draft folder,
> everything looks great. The problem is after filling out the form and
> sending it to myself as a test, the form does not send. The only fields that
> send are the Subject and the Message box at the bottom. What am I missing?

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Eric - 10 Mar 2008 16:08 GMT

Thanks for the explanation. I have published it to my Personal Forms library
and am still having a similar issue where I send the form and the only
information received is the To: field and the Message field. Shouldn't the
format of the template remain after I send it?

Thanks,
Eric

> Forms are never sent. Forms are only UI/code templates. What gets sent is a message whose MessageClass property points to a published custom form. Outlook, however, has no way of knowing that an item in the Inbox needs to use a form that is published to the Drafts folder. For testing purposes, you should publish the form to your Personal Forms library. For production use, it will need to be published to the Organizational Forms library on the Exchange server.
>
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> > sending it to myself as a test, the form does not send. The only fields that
> > send are the Subject and the Message box at the bottom. What am I missing?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 10 Mar 2008 16:36 GMT

Did you remember to create a read layout for your form? If not, it's still going to show the default layout.

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http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

> Thanks for the explanation. I have published it to my Personal Forms library
> and am still having a similar issue where I send the form and the only
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>> Forms are never sent. Forms are only UI/code templates. What gets sent is a message whose MessageClass property points to a published custom form. Outlook, however, has no way of knowing that an item in the Inbox needs to use a form that is published to the Drafts folder. For testing purposes, you should publish the form to your Personal Forms library. For production use, it will need to be published to the Organizational Forms library on the Exchange server.

>> >I have created a form, and published it to a draft folder as it is not ready
>> > for wide use. When I go back in to select the form from my draft folder,
>> > everything looks great. The problem is after filling out the form and
>> > sending it to myself as a test, the form does not send. The only fields that
>> > send are the Subject and the Message box at the bottom. What am I missing?

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