email notification of record added?

[drew]

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

[Unable]

Yes.

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

[Anatoli]

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

[drew]

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

[Anatoli]

-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

[jonesy17]

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? :-)

[Leb i Sol]

"The drawback to doing it this way is "

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

[Anatoli]

...and that is very bad...

[Leb i Sol]

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?

[Leb i Sol]

without Save As...

[Anatoli]

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

[Leb i Sol]

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

name.gif

[Anatoli]

I think it is Mr. Kafka, famous writter.

[AudioFreak]

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

[Unable]

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

I know,

[Leb i Sol]

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

[Vaughan]

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

[Anatoli]

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.