Controls in message body

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Chris Szabo

Good afternoon everyone. I'm completely new to Outlook Forms and I just have

a few basic questions.

The goal of the project I'm working on is to have a message template with

different controls in the message body itself. So, for instance, one field

might be a person's name, so there would be a textbox control with a label

for their name. There could be a check box to indicate that the "person"

belongs to a particular group in the message body. There could be a drop

down list in the message body that has one of several categories that a user

should select from.

Once the "message" is complete, it would be emailed to someone else who

would be responsible for filling in other controls within the message. I

have played with the form designer, and I can add controls to a message,

however they do not appear in the received message after it has been sent.

Is what I'm trying to accomplish something that can even be done with

Outlook Forms, or is this outside the capabilities of this particular feature?

Thanks in advance.
 
Unless you send out the form to a recipient who has that form published on

their computer or in an organizational forms library that would never work.

Even then the preview pane won't show that sort of content from a custom

form, it won't show anything.

See the forms information, especially the information about sending custom

forms, at www.outlookcode.com to see why this is a bad idea and what the

alternatives are.

"Chris Szabo" <ChrisSzabo> wrote in message

news:8929B1F9-9574-4C16-A52D-380AE081C00A@microsoft.com...
> Good afternoon everyone. I'm completely new to Outlook Forms and I just
> have
> a few basic questions.

> The goal of the project I'm working on is to have a message template with
> different controls in the message body itself. So, for instance, one
> field
> might be a person's name, so there would be a textbox control with a label
> for their name. There could be a check box to indicate that the "person"
> belongs to a particular group in the message body. There could be a drop
> down list in the message body that has one of several categories that a
> user
> should select from.

> Once the "message" is complete, it would be emailed to someone else who
> would be responsible for filling in other controls within the message. I
> have played with the form designer, and I can add controls to a message,
> however they do not appear in the received message after it has been sent.

> Is what I'm trying to accomplish something that can even be done with
> Outlook Forms, or is this outside the capabilities of this particular
> feature?

> Thanks in advance.
 
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