With doing this in Outlook 2007 with the data be availbale to Outlook 2003
and below clients.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I assume that by "make this happen," you mean to display custom fields in the
reading pane? As I've tried to explain several times, that can't be done with
Outlook 2003. In Outlook 2007, however, you can use a form region to display
data in the reading pane.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx



"Tinyski" wrote:

Sue,

Thank you for you time. Is there anyway to make this happen?

v/r
tiny

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

That sounds perfectly normal. The subject and message body will show in the
reading pane. Custom fields won't. That's how custom forms work. To see all
the custom fields, the user needs to open the item, thus displaying the form.

"Tinyski" wrote:

ok I understand. I'm the user that this form is sent to. I'm using O2003
fully patched. Tried a test. I added a custom field and resized the message
body in the forms design, then ran the form and added data in the subject
line, custom field and message body. Only the subject line and message body
idata s showing in reading pane. The message body is also resized to the full
pane.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I'm asking specifically whether "populate the fields" means that the user is
typing something in the message body -- not the other controls you've added
to the form, but the message body itself. The reason this is critical is that
the reading pane shows what's in the message body. Because you said earlier
that you removed the message body control from the form, my hunch is that the
reading pane is blank, because the message body is blank, and the message
body is blank because nothing was typed into it. In other words, the reading
pane cannot show the content of your custom fields. It shows only the message
body.