Opening Custom Outlook Forms

I've created several custom outlook forms for our company and I'm searching for an easy way to access them. The only way I know to open them is to do "New -> Choose Form..." then browse to the form library and select the form.

This is simple enough for me, though a bit bothersome, but to others in the company it seems to be confusing. So what I'm searching for is a one click solution that will launch the form.

What I've come up with is to create a custom toolbar with buttons that can directly access the forms. I can add a URL to the button with the form path, however here's the problem. So far I can only point to the physical template file (.oft), but inorder to open and get the correct output I need to access the actual published template. This is difficult to explain, though I'm hoping anyone that could help me knows what I'm talking about.

I've spent numerous hours searching for something like this with no luck. The only thing I could come up with is saving the template as a .fdm, however the tutorial was for Outlook 97 and almost nothing matched up with Outlook 2003.

 

This might help, if you haven't already tried it. Should work for 2003.

http://www.outlookcode.com/d/launchform.htm

Steve

 

That site was perfect! Im 98% done but need just a little bit more help.

I created a macro with the following code:

Sub RunMyForm()
Dim myOlApp as Application
Dim myNameSpace as Namespace
Dim myFolder as MAPIFolder
Dim myItems as Items
Dim myItem as Object

Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
Set myFolder = _
myNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderNotes)
Set myItems = myFolder.Items
Set myItem = myItems.Add("IPM.Note.MyForm")
myItem.Display

Set myOlApp = Nothing
Set myNameSpace = Nothing
Set myFolder = Nothing
Set myItems = Nothing
Set myItem = Nothing
End Sub


This works and opens anything published in my personal library, but I need to access forms published to a public folder. Is there anway to tweak this to access forms from a specific public folder?

 

Glad the link helped. I don't know about the second question, I am not that experienced with Outlook. You may have to wait for some other replies.

See if this might be an alternative, http://groups.google.com/group/micr...1be13d68bae/3f3c89059a6f1e1c#3f3c89059a6f1e1c

Steve

 

Bingo! For anyone that might need this, here's the new modified code. This accesses a form called MyForm published to a folder called FormFolder in the following public directory Public Folders/All Public Folders/Form Folder.

Sub MyForm()
Dim myOlApp As Application
Dim myNameSpace As NameSpace
Dim myFolder1 As MAPIFolder
Dim myFolder2 As MAPIFolder
Dim myFolder3 As MAPIFolder
Dim myItems As Items
Dim myItem As Object

Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set myFolder1 = myNameSpace.Folders("Public Folders")
Set myFolder2 = myFolder1.Folders("All Public Folders")
Set myFolder3 = myFolder2.Folders("Form Folder")
Set myItems = myFolder3.Items
Set myItem = myItems.Add("IPM.Note.MyForm")
myItem.Display

Set myOlApp = Nothing
Set myNameSpace = Nothing
Set myFolder = Nothing
Set myItems = Nothing
Set myItem = Nothing
End Sub

 

Thank's for posting that, it might help someone else. Good job.

Steve