Receiving data in Web forms Outook 2007

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We have a webform that gets emailed to one of our users automatically. Since
moving to Outlook 2007, the form seems to transfer in a text mode and she can
no longer see the data that was entered in the form. PLEASE HELP!

Thanks,

Christa
 
Outlook 2007 does not support the <form> element or any form control elements in HTML messages. Users will need to use the Other Actions | View in Browser command
 
May I ask why this functionality is no longer supported? It does not make
sense to me to take something away and make it more difficult. Is the work
around going to disappear without warning at some point as well?

Thanks,

Christa
 
It's part of the change from using IE to using a Word component to render HTML messages. I suspect that security issues were also involved.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54
 
So, do you say that IE has security issue. Looks like this is a dangerous
statement for microsoft & IE ofcourse.
 
IE runs in the internet security zone which is fairly locked down (and
annoying). Rather than subject outlook to the IE security zones, they use
word to render HTML. This eliminates all active content, including forms.
Even if they used IE to render HTML, they be more likely to dump outlook in
the restricted zone so no one could ever use it to send viruses (as was
popular about 10 yrs ago), not the internet zone (and certainly not the
trusted zone).

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