Emailing with IWP & XML/XSLT solved!

February 13, 200619 yr

Thanks to Martin Brandle for creating all the files necessary and your extensive support and hand-holding throughout! Thanks also to John May from Point in Space for the final tweaking to get it working!

OVERVIEW: A good way to get emails generated from IWP via a click of an IWP button, w/o triggering the user's email application, w/o php/ lasso, etc., and w/o a plug-in. The only immediate downside that I can see is that due to the fact the openurl script step requires a new browser window to open, pop-up blockers have to be turned off. I noticed that with FMSA 7, there is no notification that the email was NOT sent if pop up blockers were enabled. That's a MAJOR problem as users would have no way of knowing that the email wasn't sent! With FMSA 8, a message is now displayed notifying the user that "a script step attempted to open a url...). Thus the user will know that the email wasn't sent. Not perfect but much better!

I have reattached the files that Martin developed and added a few notes about a couple of changes I made. You can also test the solution for a short time here: http://rentalfinders.pointinspace.com:80/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=RTFtest_emailiwp&-loadframes

WHAT A GREAT FORUM!

test_emailiwp-1.zip