Automatically sending email notification...

[jbh83]

I've got a FM 5.5 db with a custom web interface (built from scratch).

My question is this: After a new record is created, I want to automatically send an email to a person, notifying them that a new record has been created. I also want the email to contain some information from the record that was just created. Is this possible, and if so, HOW??

Thanks

Jackson

[Vaughan]

The trick is to put all of the -mailto, -mailfrom etc tags in the form that the user uses to create the new record. The -New action will create the new record and send the mail in the same process.

[scratchmalogicalwax]

You can also use an Inline action on the response page

... this greatly simplifies getting the data just entered by the user into the -mail tags.

All the new record data will be available to the opening Inline Action tag via replacement tags including related data (if any).

[jbh83]

Thanks for the replies.

Vaughn: I'm aware that to send stuff in an email, one would need to use a form with the <form method= post action="mailto:[email protected]"> tag. But to put information from a FMP db, you also need the <form action="FMPro"> tag. Is there something I'm missing here? It just seems that the same tag would need to be used for two different purposes.

Jackson

[Garry Claridge]

You don't have to use the "action='mailto:....", you can use the Filemaker mail tags. Have a look at the 'CDML Reference' database, it has some good examples.

All the best.

Garry