Mail Template Alias for default form

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Hi

I recently made some changes to our mail template and now some users are getting the error message “Cannot Locate Default Form”. Closing and opening the mailfile often fixes this but if not, refreshing the design does. The default form is still present in the template and is set to be the default, but I noticed that we no longer had an alias for it. As the Form is called Memo and the alias is also called memo I can’t think why it would matter if there was no alias listed? Does anyone know if this is true - and could therefore be the source of the problems? Many thanks in advance for any help anytone can give, Anne

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Subject: Mail Template Alias for default form

There was a fix after Notes 6.5.5 to cope with default form/folder in the mail template.

Here is the url: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/FixPrint/048DF83BB7E8DBD48525711C00479126/?OpenDocument

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Subject: RE: Mail Template Alias for default form

Many thanks for response but am afraid this doesn’t help - the mail template still has a default form, just the alias is missing. And I am wondering why you would ever need an alias that was the same as the form name anyway? Wheteher there are any instances where it specifically looks for an alias name?

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Subject: RE: Mail Template Alias for default form

Shot in the dark, is it possible the form name has a space before or after the “Memo” (i.e. "Memo ")

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Subject: RE: Mail Template Alias for default form

An alias is useful:

a) when referred to by e.g. Lotusscript; in this case the script remains untouched when the name is changed

b) when dealing with multilingual templates; the name may differ (useful for agents), but the alias is always the same, hence a)

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Subject: RE: Mail Template Alias for default form

Thanks for all responses. Not sure about the space in the form name. Yes, there is one but when I remove it, Notes puts it back ! eg Memo | Memo I think that from what everyone has said it wouldn’t matter not having the alias in this case, as the form name is the same as the alias and we don’t use mutilingual mail templates, so whether the form was called by form name or alias it would always be the same. Anyway I have put the alias back as shown and will see if that stops the "No default Form " messages. If it does, it doesn’t make sense!

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Subject: RE: Mail Template Alias for default form

It could make sense when the code that searches for the form uses the second string from the string array that is formed by the name and its alias(ses).