Help with Forms/Educational Features of Multisim

[skeatz]

Hi,

I'm trying to make use of the forms feature of Multisim, where instructors can create forms & students submit their completed assignment through email. I've followed the procedures in the Multisim user manual, but I keep getting a "command line argument is not valid" message. I've googled the message and it appears that the error message is because the "/unregserver" and "/regserver" switch is no longer valid for Outlook 2003. Is there a workaround that I can use?

My 2nd question is: is there a guided tutorial or sample circuit that uses these features in Multisim that I can refer to?

thanks,

Steven

[KateB]

1. As mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827593, this command line is no longer valid for Outlook. You need student to submit the circuit via e-mail manually.

2. There's no complete tutorial on this feature. The best resource is Help>>Multisim Help>>Schematic capture>>Labeling>>Description Box>>Linking a Form to a Circuit

[skeatz]

I know that the feature is no longer supported from Outlook 2003 onwards... I'm hoping that there is a workaround, short of manually saving & emailing the circuit. Wrt a'tutorial', I've been reading the Multisim user guide & trying out the features as described there. It's kind off frustrating when it doesn't work as described & the user guide is not that clear at certain points. Having a tutorial document helps - I'm sure that there are many educational users of Multisim who would like to take advantage of the academic features of the software.

To NI: can you include this in your bugfix for the next release of NI Multisim? It is a useful feature for educational users.

thanks

[KateB]

http://digital.ni.com/applications/psc.nsf/default?OpenForm

[GarretF]

Hi,

Thank you for reporting the issue. It is now being investigated (defect ID D117087), but unfortunately, I cannot give a timeframe for when this might be addressed.

[nestor-sg]

Steven, we have been trying to reproduce this error in order to fix it, however we have not been able to. We have used Outlook 2003, 2007 and Express 6, as well as Lotus Notes 8.

The /unregserver or /regserver commands are not used by our API, so that's not the origin of the problem. We use two protocols, the regular MAPISendMail() from the OS and if that one fails we then use the "mailto:" from html. So both failed in your system.

Would it be possible for you to:

a) Attach the circuit file that is failing.

b) Are you using a file path with spaces? Can you try without spaces? (e.g. C:\mycircuit.ms11), it should work with or without spaces in the file name but is good to try.

c) Are you using Windows in English?

d) Which version of Multisim are you using?

e) If you click on any website that has a "mail to:" link, does it opens Outlook correctly?

Cheers,