Outlook Form editing

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Clifton

When designing a form from the tools menu, it seems that
you cannot create a new form from scratch. My question
however is, can you lock a field from an exsisting form
that you are designing? such as on a Task form, can you
lock or delete the Due date? We are trying to find a
better IT tech issue notifcation and was hoping to use
something such as a form to keep track of these. It would
work well since there is a priority field the user can
select and we can maintain the task with the percentage
completed. Yet we do not need the user to define the due
date. What can we do with this? or does anyone have a
better idea for this. Thanks so much!
 
Task forms don't let you modify the Task tab (or the Details tab). The best
you could do would be to replicate that tab in another one and hide the Task
tab. The only way to design a completely new type of form is to use Extended
MAPI to do that (coded from scratch using only C++ or Delphi).

If you created a brand new tab from scratch you can lock fields, but you
won't have access to the built-in date pickers and would have to supply your
own. You also can't have more than 1 Notes field in a form, so even if it's
hidden on the Tasks tab you can't add it again so your form wouldn't have a
Notes control.

Look at various pre-defined forms used for things like Help tickets and so
on and see if any of those meet your needs. References to libraries of forms
are at the Samples section at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms.htm and
that page also has lots of references for designing your own customized
forms.
 
Hi, Clifton

What you can do is recreate the form on the p.2 tab and just leave out the due date field. You effectively are working with a blank for when you go to the blank tabs and you can make the general tab non visible to the user and then rename the blank page tab you are working with

Hope this helps

Misty
 
Actually, you can put the message field on multiple pages. If more than one
such page is visible, the user will get a warning message.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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