Fields added to custom outlook forms

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I created a custom form based on the mail message form. I added several
fields, some are yes/no and others are dates. After publishing and sending
the message using the form, the data in the added fields is not present. The
sent message contains none of the yes/nos or dates.

The goal is to use a form to collect employees selections of what health
screenings they want during our company wellness week. I then want to link
the folder where all of these messages will reside into an access database
table so appointments can be set.
Thanks
 
Unless you included the "send form definition with item' option on the
Properties tab page of the custom form, your custom form will be opened with
the standard message form instead.

You need to either publish this form to the recipient's Personal Forms
library, or use the Organization Forms library in an Exchange Server
environment.

See this page for more info:

Saving and Publishing Microsoft Outlook Custom Forms:
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/formpub.htm
 
Well I kep researching after posting this message and then found out that I
needed to create the form in the folder that I was going to put the form in
first, then add them to the form. So I have that working now, but I've
discovered that my custom form fields will not be imported through the Access
link.

Can anyone help overcome this?

Thanks for the attention.
-Chip
 
Unless you are using mail enabled Public Folders that receive custom message
forms, it's better to publish them to the Personal or Organization forms
libraries (unless you are using custom Post Item forms?).

If you want to push custom fields to Access, you have to code this; none of
the Access linking or import functions with Outlook handle custom fields.
Nor can you use the Import/Export Wizard in Outlook to handle custom fields.

--
Eric Legault (Outlook MVP, MCDBA, old school WOSA MCSD, B.A.)
Try Picture Attachments Wizard for Outlook:
http://www.collaborativeinnovations.ca
Blog: http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault/
 
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