Generation and Emailing of PDF

[datalink]

I'm wondering if anyone has done much in v10 with automatically generating PDF's from Filemaker and automatically emailing them without any operator involvement at all.

I'm sure that this is very doable in 10, but if anyone has some head start tips I'd be excited.

[bcooney]

Hmm. The Save as PDF script step is not supported by FMS, so you couldn't use that in a script run by the server.

The email part is easily accomplished with a plugin that supports server run scripts. We've used 360work's email for this (we need multiple attachments and html).

[datalink]

We actually can run the script from a client terminal. It doesn't need to be server side.

What I'm unsure how to do is delete the PDF once its been created so that a pile of documents doesn't build up for the users.

[Fitch]

If you create the PDF in the user's temp folder - using Get(TemporaryPath) - it will get deleted when FileMaker quits.

[IdealData]

Or use the same filename each time?