auto email pdf

[blissland]

i would like to create a script that will auto-email a pdf'ed version of a report to the email address on the report's layout. i have FMP 9. Save record to PDF doesn't give me a way to specify the email address. Perhaps there's a way to combine Print with Mail but manual steps would be required to make the pdf. Surely there's a way.

[Vaughan]

I haven't done this, but you could save the pdf to the temp directory with a known file name, then call the send mail step and attach the file that was just exported.

[blissland]

ah yes, lovely. that works. filemaker needs to add the option of making the filename a result of a calculation. while this solution works ok, clients will get reports or invoices each time with the same name. seems kinda obvious that people would want to control the filename.

[comment]

You can use a variable to specify the exported filename (actually the file path, including the name).