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Software => Computer software => Topic started by: jistan on July 06, 2006, 06:44:42 AM

Title: Outlook template behind voting button
Post by: jistan on July 06, 2006, 06:44:42 AM

Hi all,

Ok my problem is that I have a template that I am to send to a user with voting buttons on it. I then want the user to click a voting button and fill out details on this template. The problem comes on the reply from the user, it returns a blank email so the original template is not shown and the user can not enter details on the template.

Does anybody know of a way in which you can make outlook import the message body(my template) from the original message into the message body of the voting response? I don't mind messing with code, I have a bit of experience with VBA in word and Excel.

Many thanks,

Jamie

Title: Re: Outlook template behind voting button
Post by: jistan on July 06, 2006, 07:28:45 AM

Ok folks it appears i posted a bit early on here, I have managed to resolve this myself. I found an article that was similar to my problem on another forum and luckily their solution can be adapted for my needs. The article was http://help.lockergnome.com/office/Outlook-msg-voting-buttons-Wdocument-updated-retu-ftopict707186.html.

Cheers,

Jay

Title: Re: Outlook template behind voting button
Post by: GX1_Man on July 06, 2006, 03:19:24 PM

Good for you and thanks for posting back.  ;)

Title: Re: Outlook template behind voting button
Post by: Rob Pomeroy on July 07, 2006, 04:12:00 AM

Of course this is only useful where you can guarantee that the other user is using Outlook.

If you want to use this kind of functionality within a business context incidentally, you might find that Microsoft's Infopath is right up your street.