Partial Support

The Form Converter provides partial support when converting the following items into HTML:

• Combo boxes and drop-down list boxes If your original form contains an editable combo box, it is converted to a non-editable combo box. The Form Converter adds whatever data was bound to the message as the last item in the list of a combo box or drop-down list box. See also Working with Controls.
• Types and formats of user-defined fields Certain field types have limited format support. For example, scientific and computer formats are not explicitly supported for Number type fields. Other field types (Combination and Formula) are not supported at all. For more information, see Binding Fields to Controls.
• Date and Time Formats in controls Not all arrangements of date and time data can be bound to combo boxes, list boxes, and option buttons. It is best to express dates as explicitly as possible; for example, use all three components (month, day, year) in formats such as mm/dd/yy.
• Hidden controls In general, initial values assigned to controls that are hidden are not preserved during form conversion. Exception: If your original form contains a hidden recipient control (such as To:, Cc:, or Bcc:), the Form Converter sets the recipient, but does not display the control. Data bindings and initial values are preserved.
• Binding multiple editable controls to one field You can successfully bind more than one control to a single field only if the controls are on different pages of the form.
• Non-English forms See Forms for International Use.
• Custom action (Send Form Immediately) As a custom action, “send form immediately” causes a form to be immediately opened, but not immediately sent. The user still must click Send.
• Custom and standard actions For Contact forms, the Form Converter does not by default convert the four standard actions Reply, Reply All, Forward, and Reply to Folder. But — using Microsoft Outlook — if you modify any one of these standard actions on the Action page (visible in design mode only), all four standard actions are converted. These standard actions then appear as buttons at the top of the converted form and they are all functional. In addition, creating one or more custom actions has the same effect as modifying a standard action. That is, it causes the four standard actions plus any custom action(s) to appear on the converted form.

Note  Microsoft Outlook 97 provides only two standard actions (Forward and Reply to Folder) on Contact forms, while Outlook 98 provides all four standard actions: Reply, Reply All, Forward, and Reply to Folder. But using Outlook 97 you can create custom actions to perform the same tasks as the standard actions Reply and Reply All.