I have an email form that sends a message to someone with a URL to view the particular record.

This worked nicely when I was using a FileMaker script to send the mail. Now I am using the -MailTo, -MailSub and -MailFormat tags to send the mail.

It all seems to work, but, in my "message.txt" file (-MailFormat) I have a replacement tag, which is the URL to the record. When displayed in the message I get "#38;" following all "&" in the url. rendering it useless. Somehow the text file is whacking in the "#38;" and I don't know how to get rid of it. Any ideas??

Carefully check the text in the format file. Note that it should only be ASCII text -- no formatting, nothing fancy. deelet the paragraph and retype it if needed.

Is the mail working apart form that?

The only thing I have in the text file at this stage is the replacement tag. It looks like this:

[FMP-Field:MF_Message]

NB: MF_Message is a text calc that calculates the URL it looks like this:

"http://132.1.80.208/forms/leave_forms/FMPro?-db=Annual_Leave.fp5&-format=Approval.htm&-lay=WEB" & "&-op=eq&Record_ID=" & Record_ID &"&-find"

The mail works fine other wise, I have tried adding some text to the format file, and am happy with how it works appart from #38;.

It is some thing to do with the text file though, because if I specify the same field as -MailSubject, it works fine.

I originally tried MailFmtField, and found out the hard way that it is not supported by web companion 5.0v4 and up.

I may use the subject line, but would prefer have it in the body.

Cheers Hal

Vaughn,

FYI

Someone suggested trying this

[FMP-Field:myfield,raw]

It worked like a charm.

That'd do it, sure. Otherwise Web Companion performs html encoding.