if someone adds a record via the web, is it possible to have filemaker send an email once that record has been added?

Yes.

The appropriate tags can be found in the CDML Reference database.

IMHO this questions was answered 5-10 times in last 6 months.

sorry, i did a bunch of searches before i posted, but didn't find my answer.

-MailTo



What it does

	Specifies the email address of the person who the message is going to.



Value is

	An email address.



Syntax example(s)

	Send mail using a form action

		<form action="FMPro" method="post">

			<input type="hidden" name="-DB" value="contacts.fp5">

			<input type="hidden" name="-Format" value="displaypage.html">

			<input type="text" name="-MailTo" value="[email protected]">

			<input type="text" name="-MailCC" value="[email protected]">

			<input type="text" name="-MailBCC" value="[email protected]">

			<input type="text" name="-MailFrom" value="[email protected]">

			<input type="text" name="-MailSub" value="The Subject">

			<input type="hidden" name="-MailHost" value="SMTP.Company.COM">

			<input type="hidden" name="-MailFormat" value="mail.txt">

			<input type="submit" name="-View" value="Send Message">

		</form>

HTH

This can also be done using scriptmaker and the "Send Mail" option. Create a script (e.g. "mailMe") using "Send Mail" as a function, then in your <form> add the following line:

<input type="hidden" name="-Script" value="mailMe">

The drawback to doing it this way is that you need a properly configured email client, but don't all PCs have Outlook Express on them these days? :-)

"The drawback to doing it this way is "

...that u have to run a script over the web

...and that is very bad...

well...not if u hire a "script master" who will then sit behind the server and manually approve/run 1 script at the time

or use the mailTo as suggested by the Anatoli!

BTW: who is this?

without Save As...

I guess it is my grandfather. Maybe not. I've never saw him.

wasn't he famous....hm...for someting... and from CZ LOL

name.gif

I think it is Mr. Kafka, famous writter.

I believe Anatoli nailed that one. It is Frank Kafka!

"FMP is like playing guitar, the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know anything"

I know,

10 pts. for our CZ rep. Anatoli!!!!

The image is called kafka.gif which is a bit of a giveaway.

RE: kafka.gif

I didn't check that, but since my friend was doing some collages and projects about Kafka I know that face. But it can be really my grandfather.

Kafka was bank clerk, and when my friend visited Prague (from London), he obviously checked the Bank building, I guess it was in 1992.

There was sitting very old gentleman as Bank doorman.

My friend politely asked that old gentleman: "I believe Mr. Kafka was working in this Bank, wasn't he?"

And that gentleman just replied "Yes, but I didn't saw him for many, many years"!

Answer like from Kafka's book.