Hi

I'm on a LAN, and all users have Outlook 2003. I'm trying to create an
email message which includes a link to open an InfoPath form. I'm
currently using the following code:

html
head
titleInfoPath Launcher/title
script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
function launchInfoPath()
{
objInfoPath = new ActiveXObject("InfoPath.Application");
strXSFPath = "D:\\Path\\manifest.xsf";
objInfoPath.XDocuments.NewFromSolution(strXSFPath) ;
}
/script
/head
body
Click a href="javascript:launchInfoPath();"here/a to open form.
/body
/html

That code works perfectly in IE (InfoPath opens and the form appears),
but not in Outlook. When you click the link, IE opens for a
split-second then closes itself, and InfoPath doesn't start at all.
Outlook seems to be disabling (some of?) the JavaScript, yet I can't
find any settings for it.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I've already asked in
microsoft.public.infopath but nobody could help

Thanks
Chris

That's expected behavior. For security reasons, Outlook doesn't run code in HTML messages.

--
Sue 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

"Chris Mahoney" wrote in message oups.com...
Hi

I'm on a LAN, and all users have Outlook 2003. I'm trying to create an
email message which includes a link to open an InfoPath form. I'm
currently using the following code:

html
head
titleInfoPath Launcher/title
script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
function launchInfoPath()
{
objInfoPath = new ActiveXObject("InfoPath.Application");
strXSFPath = "D:\\Path\\manifest.xsf";
objInfoPath.XDocuments.NewFromSolution(strXSFPath) ;
}
/script
/head
body
Click a href="javascript:launchInfoPath();"here/a to open form.
/body
/html

That code works perfectly in IE (InfoPath opens and the form appears),
but not in Outlook. When you click the link, IE opens for a
split-second then closes itself, and InfoPath doesn't start at all.
Outlook seems to be disabling (some of?) the JavaScript, yet I can't
find any settings for it.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I've already asked in
microsoft.public.infopath but nobody could help

Thanks
Chris

So what can I do?

One possible solution would be to give users a URL to a web page with code behind it to launch the form. If you are working in an Exchange organization and have permission to publish to the Organizational Forms library, you could use VBScript behind a published custom Outlook message form.

--
Sue 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

"Chris Mahoney" wrote in message oups.com...
So what can I do?

Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
One possible solution would be to give users a URL to a web page with code behind it to launch the form.

Just thought of that one and came back to ask whether it would work.
Since you've already suggested it, that's probably a Yes

Yep, it's all working now

Thanks!