Outlook Contact Form

[Jpln]

A couple of questions please:

1) I am creating a custom contact form using Outlook 2002 and need to make it available to all people in our small company.

Having trawlled through the internet, I am still not certain which is the best way to publish the form so that all users can see it as their default. Should I put it in the Organizational Forms Library or a Public Folder?

2) I have created a dropdown field in the contact form for Job Specialities. This does not appear to be a searchable field.

Should a dropdown field be searchable? If so, what have I overlooked?

 

[58sniper]

I can't answer your first question. But your second one depends on the scope of your use. If you're just going to have a Public Folder with these contacts in it, then tie it to a PF. If you're going to have users just creating them and sending them to others, or saving them to their own Contacts, you should put it in the OFL.

What's VERY important to remember is the version number. Make sure you increment the version number ANY TIME YOU MAKE A CHANGE. Otherwise, clients won't download the newest version.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

 

[Jpln]

Thanks for the advise Pat. I am intending to create a company wide address book, which all users can add to if needed.

So, it sounds like I need the OFL option. I have managed to make my newly created contact form the default for my pc, but do you know how to make it the default for all users please?

Thanks again for your help.

Amanda