First post. I did have a speech prepared heaping praise upon all you regulars for providing such a valuable resource of knowledge - but worried I may lose your interest with my ramblings. Suffice to say, help me with what could be a minor problem and much praise will be heaped.
With help from forum member Ricky, my little project successfully sends reports via email (Mandrill). I understand the xbasic code used -Similar to Selwyn's video.
My dilemma right now is the action javascript function of "pdf from HTML" or even "Absolute Layout Container - Create PDF". Selwyn comes tantalizing close in his other video - but in that, the choice selected was Download. Other posts here also skirted around this function.
What I need to do is send the pdf to an xbasic function to email the pdf. And I guess I'm using a twisted version of "Whats good for the goose.....etc." I'm looking at this the same way as "Open Report, Letter, Layout" and sending it to an xbasic function. But, unless I'm mistaken, this is not the same approach.
After hours of trial and error, i scaled back the function so all it does is debug(1). Thats when I realized the function wasn't even being called/fired. I've tried appending (), appending (e), appending (e.filename) etc.. to no avail. I was beginning to think I may have a corrupted installation of AA (happened before). But an install on another computer had the same result.
I feel guilty asking any of you for code....just a nudge in the right direction about how to call this function (that I will create) correctly.
Thanks for reading.Untitled.png
With help from forum member Ricky, my little project successfully sends reports via email (Mandrill). I understand the xbasic code used -Similar to Selwyn's video.
My dilemma right now is the action javascript function of "pdf from HTML" or even "Absolute Layout Container - Create PDF". Selwyn comes tantalizing close in his other video - but in that, the choice selected was Download. Other posts here also skirted around this function.
What I need to do is send the pdf to an xbasic function to email the pdf. And I guess I'm using a twisted version of "Whats good for the goose.....etc." I'm looking at this the same way as "Open Report, Letter, Layout" and sending it to an xbasic function. But, unless I'm mistaken, this is not the same approach.
After hours of trial and error, i scaled back the function so all it does is debug(1). Thats when I realized the function wasn't even being called/fired. I've tried appending (), appending (e), appending (e.filename) etc.. to no avail. I was beginning to think I may have a corrupted installation of AA (happened before). But an install on another computer had the same result.
I feel guilty asking any of you for code....just a nudge in the right direction about how to call this function (that I will create) correctly.
Thanks for reading.Untitled.png
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