Any text field, built-in or user-created, can contain alphanumeric characters.

when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.

Did you click the Edit Read Layout button and create a read layout with controls bound to the same fields as on the control layout? Unless you do this, Outlook has no way to know that you want to show the user the data from those fields.

--
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

"nilknarf" wrote in message ...
that was great info... sorry if i'm an idiot but I would love to be able to
understand the vb a little difficult for me... I just want to make sure I can
create a form on exchange server and the form has various fields that need to
have alpha and numeric values (i.e. 6061-T651, QQ-A-250/11)

I was able to create all fields and seems to be working except one BIG issue
when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.

OK.... I have everything working just fine all my data stays in the fileds
and I can foward w/ changes BUT when I reply the recipient does not get the
P2 tab I called Material List just the main email tab w/response shows up.

How do I get the form to (extra tab P.2) to always show up w/ a reply,
foward??


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Any text field, built-in or user-created, can contain alphanumeric characters.

when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.

Did you click the Edit Read Layout button and create a read layout with controls bound to the same fields as on the control layout? Unless you do this, Outlook has no way to know that you want to show the user the data from those fields.

--
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

"nilknarf" wrote in message ...
that was great info... sorry if i'm an idiot but I would love to be able to
understand the vb a little difficult for me... I just want to make sure I can
create a form on exchange server and the form has various fields that need to
have alpha and numeric values (i.e. 6061-T651, QQ-A-250/11)

I was able to create all fields and seems to be working except one BIG issue
when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.

Look on the (Actions) page of your custom form, in design mode. This is where you can modify the Reply action to have it use a custom form published in the ORganizational Forms library or each user's Personal Forms library.

--
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

"nilknarf" wrote in message news
OK.... I have everything working just fine all my data stays in the fileds
and I can foward w/ changes BUT when I reply the recipient does not get the
P2 tab I called Material List just the main email tab w/response shows up.

How do I get the form to (extra tab P.2) to always show up w/ a reply,
foward??


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Any text field, built-in or user-created, can contain alphanumeric characters.

when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.

Did you click the Edit Read Layout button and create a read layout with controls bound to the same fields as on the control layout? Unless you do this, Outlook has no way to know that you want to show the user the data from those fields.


"nilknarf" wrote in message ...
that was great info... sorry if i'm an idiot but I would love to be able to
understand the vb a little difficult for me... I just want to make sure I can
create a form on exchange server and the form has various fields that need to
have alpha and numeric values (i.e. 6061-T651, QQ-A-250/11)

I was able to create all fields and seems to be working except one BIG issue
when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.

Awesome!! (o: It works great now... Only one issue and they all happen on
the reply....

I reply and now I get the form but the data that was entered in a few fields
goes blank...

I looked at all the other fields that keep the data when I foward, reply or
reply to all and all looks good.

My 3 fields giving me grief are Rquested Material field just a text value,
Spec field just a text value and the Customer name field is a text value....

The customer Name stays when I foward the message but not if I reply or
reply to all

thanks again


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Look on the (Actions) page of your custom form, in design mode. This is where you can modify the Reply action to have it use a custom form published in the ORganizational Forms library or each user's Personal Forms library.

--
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

"nilknarf" wrote in message news
OK.... I have everything working just fine all my data stays in the fileds
and I can foward w/ changes BUT when I reply the recipient does not get the
P2 tab I called Material List just the main email tab w/response shows up.

How do I get the form to (extra tab P.2) to always show up w/ a reply,
foward??


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Any text field, built-in or user-created, can contain alphanumeric characters.

when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.

Did you click the Edit Read Layout button and create a read layout with controls bound to the same fields as on the control layout? Unless you do this, Outlook has no way to know that you want to show the user the data from those fields.


"nilknarf" wrote in message ...
that was great info... sorry if i'm an idiot but I would love to be able to
understand the vb a little difficult for me... I just want to make sure I can
create a form on exchange server and the form has various fields that need to
have alpha and numeric values (i.e. 6061-T651, QQ-A-250/11)

I was able to create all fields and seems to be working except one BIG issue
when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.

For those holdouts, you can put code in the events that fire when the user replies to copy the data from one item to another:

Function Item_ReplyAll(ByVal Response)
Call CopyData(Response)
End Function

Function Item_Reply(ByVal Response)
Call CopyData(Response)
End Function

Sub CopyData(msg)
msg.UserProperties("Requested Material") = _
Item.UserProperties("Requested Material")
msg.UserProperties("Spec") = _
Item.UserProperties("Spec")
msg.UserProperties("Customer Name") = _
Item.UserProperties("Customer Name")
End Sub

I'm not sure why that's sometimes necessary. It could have something to do with whether the properties appear in the User-definied FIelds in Folder or User-defined Fields in Item list.
--
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

"nilknarf" wrote in message ...
Awesome!! (o: It works great now... Only one issue and they all happen on
the reply....

I reply and now I get the form but the data that was entered in a few fields
goes blank...

I looked at all the other fields that keep the data when I foward, reply or
reply to all and all looks good.

My 3 fields giving me grief are Rquested Material field just a text value,
Spec field just a text value and the Customer name field is a text value....

The customer Name stays when I foward the message but not if I reply or
reply to all

thanks again


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Look on the (Actions) page of your custom form, in design mode. This is where you can modify the Reply action to have it use a custom form published in the ORganizational Forms library or each user's Personal Forms library.


"nilknarf" wrote in message news
OK.... I have everything working just fine all my data stays in the fileds
and I can foward w/ changes BUT when I reply the recipient does not get the
P2 tab I called Material List just the main email tab w/response shows up.

How do I get the form to (extra tab P.2) to always show up w/ a reply,
foward??


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Any text field, built-in or user-created, can contain alphanumeric characters.

when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.

Did you click the Edit Read Layout button and create a read layout with controls bound to the same fields as on the control layout? Unless you do this, Outlook has no way to know that you want to show the user the data from those fields.


"nilknarf" wrote in message ...
that was great info... sorry if i'm an idiot but I would love to be able to
understand the vb a little difficult for me... I just want to make sure I can
create a form on exchange server and the form has various fields that need to
have alpha and numeric values (i.e. 6061-T651, QQ-A-250/11)

I was able to create all fields and seems to be working except one BIG issue
when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.