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Hi,<br><br>
I thought this may be useful to other filepro programmers. <br><br>
One of my clients needed to have his invoices sent via email. I set
up a form with the invoice on it, and added headers to the top of the
form so it became an email.<br>
This meant saving each form as a file ending with .msg and I sent it to a
directory monitored by an SMTP program. Once the file was there the smtp
program simply sent the file as email.<br><br>
Because the client then made changes such as links to UPS and FEDEX
tracking numbers in the invoice, I needed to make html an integral part
of the form. I found an easy method<br>
to embed html tags in the form without processing. Here is what I
did:<br><br>
1. Copy the "nocodes" print table to another name, such as
"htmltags"<br>
2. After line 55, add literal html tags. Be sure to say what the tag does
in the description column. Here is an example:<br>
<tt>57 ¦
<body>
¦ * start
body
¦<br>
58 ¦
</body>
¦ * end body <br>
59 |
<br>
| * line break <br><br>
</tt>3. Add as many start and end tags as you may need.<br>
4. Then go to ANY form and simply press F5 to add the needed print code
wherever your design calls for it. No processing, no dummy fields,
etc. It puts it exactly where you need it.<br>
The table is always handy and can be used over and
over, without messing up any of your processing tables.<br><br>
Your form will now have the html tags embedded into it. When viewed
by a browser or email client, the tags do not show, but instead are
completely functional html.<br><br>
I hope this helps .<br><br>
Jerry<br><br>
<br><br>
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<b><i>Jerry Crespi, Ph.D.<br>
President<br>
Allied Business Systems Inc.<br>
V. (714) 963-5554<br>
F. (714) 964-0061</b> </i></body>
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