We recently created a custom appointment form and set it as the default form for a resource. Users can click on the resource, click new appointment, and fill out a custom form. Everything worked great. We added some other resources, set rights for the new resources and published the form. at some point, the organizer field is now blank. When users receive a request to attend a meeting, you get a "You cannot respond to a meeting without an organizer. you must add an organizer field to the item". I looked at the custom form, and organizer is greyed out, so I can't force a solution.

I've been searching and reading about this issue at a lot of sites. Apparently it's a common issue. Lots of suggestions but none that seemed to point to a solution.

We have Exchange 2010, approximately 150 users, and a variety of outlook versions mostly 2010 and 2007. Our users are not on a domain, and mostly remote, using HTTP/RPC for their outl

How you created the form?

Check this thread:http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=2&messageid=24220

The user in this thread designed the form from a meeting request and he decided to customize from an appointment, the issue then was gone.

"Ok, i find a solution. My customized form was derivated from a meeting request (on wich i design the form) and the problem of the organizer. So i decided to try to customize from an appointment and ... i have no more problems with the organizer.

But there is an other way to manage the problem :
  1. You design the form
  2. You run the form
  3. You modify the attendees / Organizer in that running form
  4. You dont save the appointment but you choose to modify again this current running form
  5. You publish the form with a new name.

It works now ! "

Basically try to re-create the form and check the result.

-Jeff

• Edited by Jeff Hardyy 19 hours 14 minutes ago

I created it from scratch.  I see what they are talking about, because if you start with an existing appointment, it has an organizer already.  The form takes a while to create with some custom fields. I did play around with it, using the above suggestion, and could see what they are talking about.  What's interesting is that if I click on an existing appointment in the resource calendar, it shows the organizer is the resource calendar, rather than the person who created the meeting.

We created custom fields for some information.

We also have two custom fields for choosing resource, from a list. We then

The person who creates the appointment usually chooses themselves from a custom field list (but maybe someone else), which we assign to a 'required attendee' field.

I can't understand why you can assign the Organizer field to a value the same way.