Problems using customised forms

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Muppie_me

Hi,

I am trying to design a form HR can send IT to inform us of new-starters
(currently we get paper forms). I've designed the form and published it to my
personal forms libary to test.

When I try to use the form I can type in all fields I wish to type in, i can
tick boxes that are supposed to be ticked/unticked. When I send the form to
myself, I receive a message about activeX controls. I click ok and when the
message opens it is not showing the form at all, but instead a blank message
field asif i've sent an empty email.
Checking my sent items, the form doesn't show up inthere either, only the
empy email.

We are using WindowsXP sp1 on the workstations
Outlook version: 2002(10.4219.4219) SP-2
Backend:
solaris8 pop/smtp mailsystem. (don't ask... we're trying to convince the
unix team a more modern approach might be a good idea)

Hope anyone can point me in the right direction of making this work.

Kind regards,

Agnes
 
S

Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

1) Did you publish the form? If so, where?

2) Did you click the Edit Read Layout button and create a read layout?

3) Is every data input control bound to an Outlook property? Check the Value
tab of the control's Properties dialog.

4) Did you set the recipient's address for rich-text? See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sendform.htm

5) Text of the ActiveX message?

6) Do you plan to run code behind this form?

FYI, there is a newsgroup specifically for Outlook forms issues "down the
hall" at microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms or, via web interface, at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...spx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms
 
M

Muppie_me

Hi Sue,

Thank you very much for your feedback. Im a total newbee at this, and didn't
realise I also had to design the "read layout" page (DoH).

I have done this and its working beautifully. The activeX error doesn't seem
to stop the form from working. I've got a tat more tweeking to do and then
I'll send it to HR to test from there. Without exchange I'm sure the
distribution will be a tat challenging.

Kind Regards,

Agnes Nutley
 
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