this seems extremely stupid. I created a script to send automatically an email to the current contact. It's evaluating whether it is Mr. or Ms etc. and then it inserts the text of a certain field as body of the email.

My problem is: I need to insert a line break between "Dear Mr....." and the body text and I just can't work it out how to do it.

Use the pilcrow ¶

I tried the pilcrow ¶ but I didn't get anywhere.

The email would be sent through the mail client and should look like

Dear Mr. Xxxx,

I'm refering to our....

in the script I created it looks like:

"Dear Mr. " &contact::nameLast&", "

&contactLog::notes&""

which obviously tranlates into

Dear Mr. Xxxx, I'm refering to our....

which is wrong.

How would I have to bring the pilcrow into the script so Filemaker would accept it and the mail client would translate it into a line break?

I tried &¶& but FMP doesn't accept this. I put it as "¶" but the mail client wouldn't translate it into the line break.

Try:

"Dear Mr. " & contact::nameLast & ",¶" & contactLog::notes

Many thanks!

Your post suggests that a script can be written to auto fill the body of the email. Can you provide me some pointers as to how to do this or even provide a sample of the script. I'm new to Filemaker and haven't had any success in auto-filling the body of the email I auto generate.

Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards