Replace code with Standard text and Attachments

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I’m very new to Formativ, bought it but never coded anything over and above “hello”. I now need to do a bit of groupwise integration with IE that I need some help with.

I want to create a mailto link in IE that launches a new mail in groupwise. However, I want that email to be formatted with standard text and standard attachments added. I can’t do this from the mailto line so I thought maybe I could do this with formativ.

My question is:
Can I launch a mail in groupwise with something like mailto david.field@coopergay.com?Subject=Demands and Needs&body=InsertDAN

And then get Formativ to recognise InsertDAN and replace this with the correct paragraph of text and attach a file to the mail.

I’d like to also trap the send on this mail and save the email content back to a database.

I’m not sure where to start looking at to find out about replacing text and monitoring input.

Alternatively is it possible to get IE to kick off a Formativ preformatted mail/form in groupwise?

Any suggestions would be great.

Many thanks
David Field
Cooper Gay

david.field@coopergay.com

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[Support 1a]

Dear David,

Thank you for your questions above. You can use the mailto: formatting convention to launch GroupWise. However, tests reveal the OnCompose event (configured to fire after the event) fires _before_ GroupWise has finished completing the body of the message. As this is the only event I think would be useful in this case, automating the process would be problematic.

My initial suggestion would be to write an applet that places a button on the mail toolbar. Pressing this button checks the body of the message to see if it contains a pre-defined marker, and replaces the body if a marker is found.

In terms of the send event, yes, you could do this. We have posted some applets on Novell CoolSolutions that should give you a head start:

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/9485.html

* 20 Jun 2002 – Find records in Access database
* 24 Sep 2002 – Save Message and Attachments
* 28 Jul 2003 – Export to Disk

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you require any further assistance.

Regards,

Advansys Support

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