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**Toby B** · 22-Sep-2004, 08:30 AM

Hi Martin,

I didn't know this was possible. How are you adding the quick search code? Are you following the wizard. What sort of problems are you getting?

**Napolean** · 22-Sep-2004, 08:48 AM

Hi Toby

I also didnt know it was possible but thought I would try, ok here`s how I set about it, first I took the code from Actinic to allow a search from outside the site,

<table width="422" border=1 align="center" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 bordercolor="#4245B5">
<form name=simplesearch action="https://www.rackingplus.com/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl" METHOD="GET">
<tr bgcolor="#4245B5">
<td align=left valign=middle noWrap bgcolor="#4245B5" class="Normal"><div align="center" class="style1">Search Racking<em>plus</em>.com Our Online Store</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="52" align=left valign=middle noWrap class="Normal"><div align="center"><strong>Search For </strong>
<input type="TEXT" name="SS" size="30" maxsize="125" onFocus="this.value='';this.style.background='#FFFFFF'">
 
<input type="image" border="0" name="ACTION" src="https://www.rackingplus.com/acatalog/quicksearch.gif" alt="Go!">
<input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="PR" VALUE="-1">
<input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="TB" VALUE="A">
<input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="SHOP" VALUE="">
</div></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>

then simply placed it in Dreamweaver to make a HTM page of its own, tidied it up a little and what was left is the code posted above,Tested it as a standalone file. then saved it as a htm file, then to use this as stationary in Outlook select tools/options/mail format/stationary picker/new/use this file as a template, then browse for the file made in Dreamweaver.
Normaly this works a treat, but for some reason Outlook kills this code, I do belive if this could be sorted this would benefit all Actinic users as they would be able to add a search box for there site to all there emails, hopefully generating more orders

Best wishes
Martin

**cdicken** · 23-Sep-2004, 11:16 AM

You say "then it all goes pear shape". Can you give us more information about what's actually happening.

**Napolean** · 23-Sep-2004, 12:35 PM

pear shaped

When its added to Outlook nothing works, no working buttons etc, as a standard html page it works fine, if you could send me an email address to ma@rackingplus.com I will send the attached stationary

Thank you BTW for all you help

Martin

**cdicken** · 24-Sep-2004, 08:40 AM

Hmm - TiggyPig sent me his outlook template and I can see that he has a

<form name="form1" method="post" action="">

just under the <body> tag and a

</form>

towards the end. This will break the quicksearch form that you have placed in your HTML as you cannot have a form within a form.

Could you check your HTML code and remove the <form> tags from the beginning and end of the outlook template?

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