Email Scripts in IWP

[ashburplace]

Hi all.

Firstly apologies- I am new to FileMaker and this may seem like a stupid quesiton. I did my best to find the answer already using the search here, but had no luck..

I have a contact management database, based on the FMP CM starter solution. It has a button to send an email to the email specified, and I have a script to send an email to all contacts in the current lookup. It works perfectly in FileMaker, but in IWP it just does not function. The screen blinks and nothing happens. Other scripts- the report script and label script, function ok.

Is there a way I can get around this? Is this normal behaviour or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Dave

[mr_vodka]

Hi Dave,

Welcome to the forums. There are script steps that are not web compatible.

See this recent thread.

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/194801

[Cheese Food Product]

Seems like it should be possible to create a script that runs on the IWP host (which is also logged into the DB as a user) to periodically execute a script that would execute this emailer.

Architecture would look something like:

1. User executes an application script that you would like to result in an email being sent. Within this script, you create a new record in a "BatchEmailer" table.

2. IWP host system/user periodically checks the BatchEmailer table for new records. You can create this periodic check routine yourself or get a script scheduler add-in.

3. Upon finding a new BatchEmailer record, it executes a Send Email command based on the data found in the record, and then updates the record upon sucessful completion.

Have not built this myself, but seems like it would work. Others have any experience with this?