E-Mail of Form

[johncrane]

I would like to be able to send an E-Mail of an Invoice. This would be a standard FM layout with a header,body and sub-total. The header would contain the customer information and the body will contain the items on the invoice and the sub-total would contain the invoice total. I believe that there are plug-ins that will allow me to do this but I am not aware of them. Does any one have any suggestions on a plug-in that will allow me to do this. It is for FM 5.5 on a Mac. Thanks.

[Keith M. Davie]

I believe that Maria Langer, in her book Database Publishing with FileMaker Pro..., discusses the use of an email form.

[Vaughan]

Ahhh, you cannot e-mail FM layouts. E-mail is information. You can send the data from the record, and perhaps format the mail message to make it look nicer.

If your database is web-shared you could send a URL and points to the server/database/record directly. Then they'll see the web-rendered version of the database.

[Garry Claridge]

You can use SMTPit at:

http://www.smtpit.com

It is very good for what you want.

All the best.

Garry

[Anatoli]

Garry, do you think it will send layout with 3 related databases?

Anatoli

[Garry Claridge]

You obviously need to write the text or html for the contents of the email. If he is talking about automatically converting a layout into an email I don't know of any such solution However, we have gone close by printing a preview to a pdf and then by ActiveX calling the email program with the attached pdf.

I believe with a bit of thought and some Applescript/ActiveX scripting this could be done without too much effort.

Might be onto something here!

[johncrane]

Just to close this out in case someone wants to do the same thing, I have found that I can use the plug-in called ExportFM to create a jpeg image of a previewed report in Filmaker. Multiple pages in the previewed form result in multiple jpeg images. These can then be emailed as attachments with your browser. I could find no solution that would allow emailing directly from Filemaker.

[Vaughan]

Just to clarify: you *can* email from Filemaker Pro the data in the records, not the layouts.