I create a sales ticket in FMP11 and then print the sales ticket out for my customer.  I have a layout for the sales ticket.  I'd like to be able to give my customer the option for me to email this sales ticket to their email address.  I already have a field for their addredss in my layout.  How can I email a one page form?  I use Windows Live Mail 2011 on a PC.

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You can create a file with the Save Records as PDF script step. Use a variable to define the file path for the PDF, and then use that same variable to define the email attachment path.

 

Windows Live Mail is not a supported email client. You can try it. If it won't work, you could use SMTP mail, or there are several plugins that work very well.

Oh, that's handy - I thought the pdf save file path had to be written in by hand. (i.e. Hard written in)

Does it have to be a variable or will it work with a field or calculation in that file path box?

Edited June 28, 201510 yr by MikeKD

It has to be a variable, or variables. E.g., let's say you have two variables, $folder and $file. You could combine them in a $path variable, and use $path in the Specify Output dialog. Or you can use "$folder/$file" directly.

The latter option is handy, but on the down side it only shows $file in the script listing so it's not obvious what's happening unless you look in the dialog.

Thanks Fitch, that's handy. I'll give your latter method a go for varieties sake.

I haven't got it working yet with a $path variable, but suspect it's to do with the file path itself - it works when I use the dialogue to input it directly, but not in a variable yet.

I'll get there, thanks for the hint!

 

Mike

If you're building the file name with a calc or field, don't forget the file extension.

Try Get ( DesktopPath ) & "/" & "myFile.pdf" for example.

Ah, I had forgotten the extension.

It still doesn't work, but I haven't tried the Get ( DesktopPath ) yet - I can use that to help narrow down what I'm doing wrong.

At the moment I've got

"/Users/mikekentdavies/Dropbox/KJA Music Library/Set Lists/"
&
Gig::Date
& 
"_"
 & 
Gig::Gig Name
&
".pdf"

Thanks!

Mike

Hint: it's the date field.

What Tom is saying (a bit cryptically): in an OS path, watch out for (i.e. Substitute()) non-allowed characters, namely the "/" and ":" that you get from dates and timestamps, but which may also lurk in your other data.

Edited June 30, 201510 yr by eos

Thanks, eos -- typically I would spell it out as you did, but Mike seems like he enjoys figuring things out. So I was purposely being a bit cryptic.

Mike, don't forget, the Data Viewer is your friend. You can preview the results of your calc there without having to run through a script to test it.

Thanks both!!

Finch was right, I felt I was pretty close (i.e., I'd taken spaces out of the gig title in case that was the problem). It does work fine without the date (which had ":" as separators.)

Mind, it was also nice to see EOS clarify what I'd figured, and I guess that could be useful if someone else has the same brain fade as me!

Cheers chaps :-)

Mike

 

Mind, it was also nice to see EOS clarify what I'd figured

I did not intend to spoil your fun of self-discovery 

Next time I'll use the Spoiler feature.

Click the eye in the toolbar.

Yep, I'll never be able to resist the spoiler!

:-)