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    Generating Email using active script...

    Hi all, first post, new user:

    I am trying to create a button with active script that will generate an email, using Outlook, to the current record. Using the genie I have selected the email field and further wanted the contents of a specified field inserted into the body of the email. When I run the button I receive the following error:

    Script:OnPush line:22
    Email_client_external(param_to,param_subject,param_message,param_attachments,par
    Variable �param_to� not found.

    According to the error I would guess it is suggesting that line 22 has an issue. When I view the Xbasic code generated by the genie there is only 19 lines of code total. Am I translating this error code correctly?

    The OnPush code reads:

    'Send an e- mail message using the default external e-mail clilent.
    if is_object(topparent.this) then
    form_name = topparent.name()+".this"
    else
    form_name = ""
    end if
    Dim message_type as c
    message_type = ""
    _to_var = a5_eval_expression("=All_Cont_Email",local_variables())
    param__to = _to_var
    param_subject = "Referral activities update"
    param_cc = ""
    param_bcc = ""
    message_var = a5_eval_expression("=Client_Table->Comments",local_variables())
    param_message = message_var
    attachment_list = ""
    param_attachments = alltrim(attachment_list)
    'Send the e-mail using the external e-mail client
    email_client_external(param_to,param_subject,param_message,param_attachments,param_cc,param_bcc)

    Any help is greatly appreciated?
    Kim Dickerman
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    #2
    Re: Generating Email using active script...

    param__to = _to_var


    Note that this line of code was generated in error and has 2 underscores between param and to.

    Remove the additional underscore and you'll be fine.
    Al Buchholz
    Bookwood Systems, LTD
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    Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
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      #3
      Re: Generating Email using active script...

      Got interrupted while replying and see Al has nailed it already. Here are some steps to take if you don't how to modify the code

      The other day I was faced with the same thing. There is a bug in the action script genie that cause the code to be written with an extra underscore for that field.


      If you convert to inline xbasic you can fix it

      In the code editor put focus on the email action.
      top menu-> code ->Convert to inline xbasic -> yes
      about line 9 is this param__to = "" change it to param_to = "" one underscore.
      save changes

      Or add a new 'inline xbasic' action then view the xbasic of the email action - copy to clipboard and paste into the inline xbasic action. Then comment out the email action. That way you can easily still use the genie to make changes and copy the changed code over to the inline xbasic action again.


      Al, have you reported this. I forgot to:o
      Tim Kiebert
      Eagle Creek Citrus
      A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.

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        #4
        Re: Generating Email using active script...

        Hi,
        In addition to this param_to problem I am wondering if another issue still exists within v9 that occurs at times in v8--that the actual email address that the param_to equals is converted having the @ become % and throws a resulting error. I am just curious and also wanted to throw this out there just in case someone else runs across such an occurance and now will know to check this out as well.
        Mike
        __________________________________________
        It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
        It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
        Henry David Thoreau
        __________________________________________



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          #5
          Re: Generating Email using active script...

          Originally posted by Tim Kiebert View Post
          Al, have you reported this. I forgot to:o
          Negative ghostrider...
          Al Buchholz
          Bookwood Systems, LTD
          Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

          Occam's Razor - KISS
          Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
          Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
          When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
          "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
          Albert Einstein

          http://www.iadn.com/images/media/iadn_member.png

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            #6
            Re: Generating Email using active script...

            All - Thank you for the help. the double underscore was the issue. Also, aplogise for the double post. For some reason I couldn't see my orginal post on the message board.
            Kim Dickerman

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              #7
              Re: Generating Email using active script...

              This bug - where the action script inserts a double underscore in the param_to code still exists in Version 10.

              Thank goodness I found this post, so I could get my script working!

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                #8
                Re: Generating Email using active script...

                Charlain,
                Please submit an actual bug report so that for sure Alpha is made aware of this.
                Mike
                __________________________________________
                It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
                It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
                Henry David Thoreau
                __________________________________________



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