Custom Forms in OWA

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Matt Gibson - 15 Sep 2004 22:15 GMT

Hey Everyone!

Hopefully I've got the right newsgroup here.

One of our clients is running SBS2K3, and has a custom form that they use
for tracking repairs, which is attached to one of their public folders.

I'm just wondering if there's any way that they can access that form over
OWA. Currently, if they browse to that folder under OWA, they just get the
default form. I've googled, and found hints that it's possible, but most of
them seem to point back to Exchange 5.5.

Any information you could give me would be VERY appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Matt

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Peter Suba - 30 Sep 2004 11:29 GMT

Hi Matt,

This is not so simple unfortunately.

OWA displays items differently for each item type. How it works is the
following: it grabs an item, checks it type and then checks if it has a
display template for that perticular type in its (OWA's) own library.
Obviously, custom forms are not included in the library so it just displays
the default form.

The only way to make them visible on OWA is to develop and add to the type
library your own forms template, but it is not so straight forward (I have
developed myself a number of custom forms and scripts to Exchange but I have
not had the time to actually dig so deep into programmig Exchange myself.)
Obviously, this CAN be done and Microsoft does provide a number of tools,
SDKs and documentation on how to do it. You should look at the developers
reference (MSDN), not in the admins reference however.

Peter

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