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01-03-2007
, 12:03 PM
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I have a text field which is a calculation that contains a mailto syntax eg. a href="mailto:astark1 (AT) unl (DOT) edu?subject=FMP field (FMP field is a separate field from the calculated text field) I wish to use this field in the send mail feature as the message. My client will get the e-mail and click the link which will open their e-mail client and insert the desired address and subject. I have been unable to get the field to render the desired results. Any ideas? Sorry if I went into too much detail. Thanks. |
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I have a text field which is a calculation that contains a mailto syntax eg. a href="mailto:astark1 (AT) xxx (DOT) edu?subject=FMP field (FMP field is a separate field from the calculated text field) I wish to use this field in the send mail feature as the message. My client will get the e-mail and click the link which will open their e-mail client and insert the desired address and subject. I have been unable to get the field to render the desired results. Any ideas? Sorry if I went into too much detail. Thanks. |
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Howard Schlossberg (818) 883-2846
FM Professional Solutions, Inc. Los Angeles
FileMaker 8 Certified Developer
Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance
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I have a text field which is a calculation that contains a mailto syntax eg. a href="mailto:astark1 (AT) xxx (DOT) edu?subject=FMP field (FMP field is a separate field from the calculated text field) I wish to use this field in the send mail feature as the message. My client will get the e-mail and click the link which will open their e-mail client and insert the desired address and subject. I have been unable to get the field to render the desired results. Any ideas? Sorry if I went into too much detail. Thanks. |
Firstly, your email application must be able to accept HTML formatted
emails from FileMaker Pro's Send Mail command. Unfortunately this is
unlikely, especially since the command tends to be flakey to begin with
(although that's the fault of the email applications, not FileMaker).
Second, your Calculation field will have to create the *entire* HTML
code for the email, not just the <a href...> above. That includes all
the necessary HTML tags like <body> , <header>, etc.
You may find that you need to use an email plug-in like SMTP-it to be
able to achieve what you're trying to do.
Now assuming all that works, the Calculation above becomes fairly
simple. The problem is the " symbols. One wayis to store a " symbol in
a Global field (eg. g_Quote) and then just concatenate that into the
calculation where needed. That means the part of the Calculation field
needed to achieve the above mail link would become something like:
"<a href=" & g_Quote & "mailto:astark1 (AT) xxx (DOT) edu?subject="
& FMP Field & g_Quote & ">Click here to email</a>"
Helpful Harry
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