OL98: Form Name Not Updated When Programmatically Published

When you attempt to create a new item using a custom form and republish the form using a new name, the Display Name is not updated correctly.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with Microsoft Outlook 98.

This problem occurs with all types of items, and it does not matter if the items are created by your Visual Basic for Applications code or through the user interface.

This problem does not occur if you use Visual Basic for Applications code to publish a standard item type, instead of using an item based on a custom form.

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Publish a mail message to your Inbox. To do this, follow these steps:
   
   
   1. Open a new mail message.
   2. On the Tools menu, click Forms, and then click Publish Form As.
   3. Set the destination to your Inbox, name the form MyForm, and then click Publish.
   4. Close and do not save changes to the mail message.
2. Run the following Visual Basic for Applications code:

      Sub PublishForm()
         Set ol = New Outlook.Application
         Set olns = ol.GetNamespace("MAPI")
         Set MyFolder = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
         Set MyItem = MyFolder.Items.Add("IPM.Note.MyForm")
         Set MyForm = MyItem.FormDescription
         MyForm.Name = "MyForm2"
         MyForm.PublishForm olFolderRegistry, MyFolder
         MyItem.Close olDiscard
      End Sub
   						

3. In Outlook 98, click on the Actions menu.

You will now see two forms listed as MyForm. The message class of the newly published form is set to IPM.Note.MyForm2, but the Display Name of the form remains MyForm.

For more information about creating solutions with Microsoft Outlook 98, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: