E-mail

[PaulTraub]

Hi,

I'm a new user to this forum and use FileMaker (win).

Does anyone have advice on how to e-mail a layout using outlook express. Ideally, to save layout as an attachment.

Many thanks in advance.

Paul

[Ocean West]

I am not sure on windows, but on a Mac you can select the entire contents of a layout and drag it to the desk top and like you said send it along as an attachment.

But the user will need access to the layout in order to accomplish this.

I am not sure if you email a document with a container works I haven't tried it. but you could go into preview mode and using a script perform a copy and then go to a layout with a container field and perform a paste this in effect will capture the layout as a graphic.

[Ocean West]

Moved topic here.

[Vaughan]

You cannot "send" layouts, only the data that is displayed on them.

[biondo123]

We were succesfully able to e-mail a record from FileMaker after saving it to print to an Acrobat PDF file then just attaching the file to the e-mail. Of course the recipient would have to hv Acrobat reader but at least it preserves the layout as it is in FileMaker.(Windows so far, haven't been able to do it on the Mac yet)

[Geeksharka]

PDF-ing the layout in Mac works well too. Better than printing, faster than postage, and you keep all the layout setups, including the all-important sub-sort lists.

[Balder]

Hi,

If you go to Print preview (I hope i use the correct naming..., i'm using a dutch FMPRO version) and press control C, open mail and Control-V into the body-part, you have a perfect copy of the complete layout in mail.

Maybe this can be scripted (??). A tool like AutoIt (shareware) can do it perfectly. Create a small AutoIt-script, compile it and run it from a FM-script.

[Geeksharka]

Thanks Eric H.

Your copy and paste from Preview mode into email is excellent! I've been using FM for years and years, but learn something every day.

[anita hamis]

Thanks Erik that worked quite well, problem is it only works with otlook express(PC) not any other email programs(atleast the ones that i've tried.

anita