Bolierplate template with data shared across several users

[swinster]

Hi,

I putting together a small app (actually in VS VB.NET rather than VBA,
ut the methodology is pretty much the same) that will simply create
various emails based on user selection and pre-exisiting text. There was
a couple of ways I though of doing this

Each I would say has some advantages and disadvantage, but I'm after a
simple way to ensure that the boilerplate text remains constant across
all users. We run Outlook 2010 with Exchange 2003 (soon to be Exchange
2010), so if we update the text, then it remain the same for all users.


1) Use some pre-built OFT file and simply do a find and replace on the
text within the OFT with that of simple text selection. The OFT file
could be save on a network share.
2) Create a form to store the relevant text in order to build the
template. In this case I guess I would save data to an SQL back-end or
some such, but it seem a little overkill.

Has anyone written anything like this or seen any examples out there?

Also, we all have standard signature added to the new and reply mail,
however, when I create the email from from the boilerplate as above, I
like to display the email prior to sending. Of course, Outlook then
appends the signature, but in this instance I don't wan the signature
added. How can I stop this from happening?

Thoughts and ideas welcome.

Chris




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swinster