1) Message forms are designed to be sent, not to post data in a folder, and
cannot be used as a folder's default form.
2) Mail-enabling a public folder is a task for the Exchange administrator.
To be fully functional, a messsage form needs to be published to the
Organizational Forms library or each user's Personal Forms library. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=61
What exactly do you mean by "post to a default task list"? Is that a task
folder in the Public Folders hierarchy? In a mailbox?
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54
"cmonroe21 via OfficeKB.com" u48566@uwe wrote in message
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I have canned my rather extensive task form due to functionality issues
(huge
bummer!) and decided to try to use a message form instead. But since I
completely created my task only to find out it can't be used in the
capacity
I need it, I would like to set up the message folders and such with a
simple
test message form BEFORE I create it! So I created a folder in my "All
Public Folders" (actually, in a sub-folder in the All Public Folders) as a
message/post folder. This has led me to two questions:
1.) When I go in to change the default form to use to a standard message
rather than the default which is a standard post (by selecting it out of
the
Standard Forms Library) it says I cannot create an item of this type in
this
folder. But it is set up as a Mail/Post Items folder? And there is no
other
option even close to an email/message folder option (???) If it won't let
me
set a standard message form as the default then it probably won't let me
set
my custom message form with it, either? Where is the option to set up a
message/email-based folder?
2.) Also, can I set up an email address for my public folder? I was
dinking
around in the Outlook directory to try to find my new mail/post item
folder,
and instead of searching the Global Address List I chose Public Folders to
search for my new folder. It did not show up, and niether did any of the
other public folders I work out of every day. But quite a few others did.
I
did not recognize any of them though, have never seen any of them before.
And the icon for the folders has a mail envelope on them... my new
mail/post
item folder has a double-headed blue arrow... not the same. I'm guessing
that to be able to associate an email address to my folder I would have to
create a folder like this, with the envelope icon? But when I go to
create a
new public folder the closest option I have is the mail/post item folder?
Basically I wanted to initially create a custom task form that others
could
have access to and post to a default task list (did this by just setting
the
'assign to' field value myself and making it unmodifiable). Can I create
something like this with a custom email form and a public folder instead?
If
I make the custom email form the default item for this folder, will they
be
able to use it in it's full functionality? If not, where should I publish
it
so that they can access it and it will retain it's full custom
functionality?
(Obviously can't "save" it anywhere on the network drive where I can
preserve
the functionality of my custom form, and am running into huge road-blocks
as
far as publishing custom forms in places where others can access and use
them.