E-Mail Preview Copied Image

[johncrane]

I am trying to set up a process to do the following:

1-Go to a layout and enter Preview Mode

2-Copy the Previewed Image

So far no problem

3-Jump to Netscape or Outlook Express and Open the e-mail and select New Mail Message.

4-Paste the clipboard to the Message Section of the e-mail

5-Send the e-mail.after entering the To Address and Subject.

If i do the process manually with a Screen Picture Shift+Apple+4 and outline the picture then I Open Simple Text and do a select All and Copy then I Open the E-mail with a new message and Paste the Clipboard into the Message Section it works Great. However if I preview the page and do a copy of the page in a filemaker script I do not get an image that I can paste into the e-mail message section.The Image will also not paste into Simple Text document.

is there a Filemaker plug-in that will do all of what I want or just some of what I want.

[Vaughan]

Unlike word processing documents, you cannot paste or insert images into e-mail messages. E-mail is ASCII text only. Always has been, always will be.

The only possible way to get images to *display* in e-mail messages is to use html. You need to paste the <img src> tag into the mail message.

The only way that I can think of getting this to work is a bit complicated:

1) share the database over the web (ie, custom web publishing with Web Companion).

2) Create a calculation field in FMP that generates the <img src> tag complete with URL to the image in the container field.

3) the send mail script step uses the calculation field to "send" the image to the recipients.

I haven't got this to work yet myself. the closest I have got is using aplain text message with a simple URL on it that people click to view the message.

There is an alternative: encode the imge and send it as an attachment. I don't know how to go about encoding the image though, at least not from within FMP itself. One way might be to make a script that exports the image to disk as a temp file, then uses the "attach file" option in the send mail script step to encode it and send it. Yeah, that could work...

If anybody has tried this, please let me know.

[This message has been edited by Vaughan (edited October 24, 2000).]