johncrane Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith M. Davie Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 I believe that Maria Langer, in her book Database Publishing with FileMaker Pro..., discusses the use of an email form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted January 21, 2002 Share Posted January 21, 2002 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Claridge Posted January 21, 2002 Share Posted January 21, 2002 You can use SMTPit at: http://www.smtpit.com It is very good for what you want. All the best. Garry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted January 21, 2002 Share Posted January 21, 2002 Garry, do you think it will send layout with 3 related databases? Anatoli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Claridge Posted January 21, 2002 Share Posted January 21, 2002 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johncrane Posted January 23, 2002 Author Share Posted January 23, 2002 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Just to clarify: you *can* email from Filemaker Pro the data in the records, not the layouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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