Re: Email Attachments

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 17265
interpreted = N
texte = >I remember reading some time ago about using various things to con>Webcatalog and Emailer to add an attachment to an outgoing message. What>was the result of this? I have a situation where an online site wants>shoppers to be able to request a print catalog, but my customer doesn't want>50 or 100 catalog requests a day in email, so no problem, just append the>info to a database. The problem with this is I want the computer to>automatically send this database via email once a week to the customer, and>then clear it out for the next weeks requests. (we don't allow FTP access to>the commerce servers, so that path is out...) Any suggestions would be>appreciated!1- Create a Date file.2- Create a SendMailToClient file.3- Put a properly formatted and addresses [sendmail] context inside your SendMailToClient file. Make sure to Cc: a copy to yourself, so you'll have a copy in case your client doesn't receive his copy.4- Put a search/founditems context inside your sendmail context, and make it retrieve ALL the records in the CatalogRequests.db -- that's the db you are storing your client's catalog requests in.5- On your home page, put some code like this that checks to see what day of the week it is:[showif [date]![include Date]][showif [date %a]=Mon][include SendMailToClient][delete db=CatalogRequests.db&neSomeFielddatarq=[blank]][/showif][writefile Date][date][/writefile][/showif]If you write your [sendmail] properly, you won't have to attach a db file to the message, because the client can simply cut and paste the db data directly from the message area to a blank text file.Sincerely,Ken Grome808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionsmailto:ken@webdna.nethttp://www.webdna.net Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Email Attachments - Webcat (RH Prouty 1998) Re: Email Attachments (Peter Ostry 1998) Re: Email Attachments (Kenneth Grome 1998) Email Attachments (Brian B. Burton 1998)

>I remember reading some time ago about using various things to con>Webcatalog and Emailer to add an attachment to an outgoing message. What>was the result of this? I have a situation where an online site wants>shoppers to be able to request a print catalog, but my customer doesn't want>50 or 100 catalog requests a day in email, so no problem, just append the>info to a database. The problem with this is I want the computer to>automatically send this database via email once a week to the customer, and>then clear it out for the next weeks requests. (we don't allow FTP access to>the commerce servers, so that path is out...) Any suggestions would be>appreciated!1- Create a Date file.2- Create a SendMailToClient file.3- Put a properly formatted and addresses [sendmail] context inside your SendMailToClient file. Make sure to Cc: a copy to yourself, so you'll have a copy in case your client doesn't receive his copy.4- Put a search/founditems context inside your sendmail context, and make it retrieve ALL the records in the CatalogRequests.db -- that's the db you are storing your client's catalog requests in.5- On your home page, put some code like this that checks to see what day of the week it is:[showif [date]![include Date]][showif [date %a]=Mon][include SendMailToClient][delete db=CatalogRequests.db&neSomeFielddatarq=[blank]][/showif][writefile Date][date][/writefile][/showif]If you write your [sendmail] properly, you won't have to attach a db file to the message, because the client can simply cut and paste the db data directly from the message area to a blank text file.Sincerely,Ken Grome808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionsmailto:ken@webdna.nethttp://www.webdna.net Kenneth Grome

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