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trying to add an appointment to my calendar: "The form required to view this message cannot be displayed. Contact your administrator." What can I the custom form cannot be opened outlook 2016 do to repair this? This usually happens when you are using a
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custom form within that folder and the form cache has become corrupted or the add-in that was using
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that form is no longer installed on your system. A “form” is basically the design and the function of the fields when you open or create a new Outlook http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_other/error-message-the-custom-form-cannot-be-opened/650f605c-1af0-4c58-a3bb-03e23e13ce99 items such as a message, appointment or contact. Clearing the forms cache The first thing you should try is clearing the forms cache. This will make sure that, in the case of using a custom form, the latest published version of your custom forms gets loaded again. In the case that you just uninstalled an application that was using a https://www.msoutlook.info/question/316 custom form, it will purge this cached form and Outlook will try to load the original message form. To clear the cache; Outlook 2007 and previous Tools-> Options…-> tab Other-> button Advanced Options…-> button Custom Forms…-> button Manage Forms…-> button Clear Cache Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013File-> section Options-> section Advanced-> group Developers-> button Custom Forms…-> button Manage Forms…-> button Clear Cache When you want to clear it manually, delete all contents from the following directory when Outlook is close; Windows XP C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\FORMS Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\FORMS Verify that Outlook is configured to use the correct form If you still have this issue after clearing the forms cache, make sure that Outlook is configured to open the correct form when creating a new item in that folder. To see which form is the default, right click on the folder and choose Properties. Here you’ll find a drop down list called “When posting to this folder, use:”. You can find the default for each folder in the list below; Fold
Add-ins Database Connections Security Prompts Tips Outlook Forms Basics Form Controls Property Syntax Default Forms Import/Export Printing Languages VBA VBScript VB.NET & C# Samples http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=64 Sue´s Book Samples Other VB/VBA Samples Sample Outlook Forms Share Your Own Code More Outlook Resource Sites Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Outlook Developer Portal Office Developer Center MSDN Communities (discussion) FAQs and other general resources Slipstick Systems Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center DigidashLive.com Microsoft sending-mail-from-code FAQ How the Outlook forms cache works When a user cannot be opens an item, Outlook looks at the value of the item's MessageClass property to determine whether the item should be displayed with a standard form, a custom form, or (beginning in Outlook 2007), a form region. If the item requires a published custom form, Outlook stores a copy of the form on your local hard disk. the custom form The next time you need to use the form, Outlook checks this forms cache. If the form is in the cache, Outlook goes to the form's original location to check the form's Modified timestamp. If a user has modified the form since Outlook cached it, Outlook opens the form from its original location and updates the cache with the modified version. If no one has modified the form since Outlook cached it, Outlook loads the form from the cache, which is usually much faster than opening it from the original location. If the required form isn't in the cache, Outlook looks in other locations, in this order: The forms libraryfor the currently displayed folder Personal Forms library- in the user's default information store Organization Forms library- on the Exchange server The location of the forms cache depends on the operating system, where %username% is the environment variable containing the user's login name: Windows Vista - C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\FORMS Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\%username\Local Settings\Application D