Custom Contact Form
 

I created a custom contact form in Outlook 2003 SP2. I saved and published
the form and am able to use it. However any information I input into the
second or third pages does not save. Only the information on the first page.
Any suggestions?

Custom Contact Form
 

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I created a custom contact form in Outlook 2003 SP2. I saved and published
the form and am able to use it. However any information I input into the
second or third pages does not save. Only the information on the first page.
Any suggestions?

In fact, I have two.

1) What you see on the screen is a marriage between a data item, which is
composed of data fields, and a form, which is composed of direction on how to
display controls. If the data that is entered in the controls is not copied to
a data field, then it does not get saved. This copy operation is done
automatically if (and only if) you "bind" the control to a data field. The
binding is done by right-clicking a control, selecting its properties, and
selecting a field to hold the data. (Be sure to use the Outlook properties
panel, not the advanced, VBA properties of the control.)

2)If a data item is emailed to a recipient who is not on the same Exchange
server, or Outlook workstation, and the TNEF wrapper is not used, then custom
field data is not sent, or not sent properly, and doesn't display at the
recipient end. You force the use of the TNEF wrapper by specifying that the
email is sent using rtf format. This is usually done by opening the recipient's
contact data item, selecting the email address that is used, right-clicking it
and choosing properties. On the properties panel, there is either a check box
that is labeled "always send to this recipient using rtf format", or a email
format dropdown list control, one entry on the list being rtf format.

HTH.

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Hollis Paul
Mukilteo, WA USA