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Endless problems with A5 email client

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    Endless problems with A5 email client

    Using A5 email client, I created an email script as follows:
    From AS Send Email Message,
    - Which email client?: built in A5 email client
    Send to: field that contains the email address
    Attachments: var->zattachment
    Next Window:
    In Message box:
    ="Dear "+Students->Name + crlf()+
    "Please see attached" + crlf()+
    "the Sender"
    Message Type: Plain
    Option: Don't open A5 email client, just send it

    The email goes out fine, the files are attached properly,... BUT the body of the email that is received shows codes (exactly as follows):
    ="Dear "+Students->Name + crlf()+\cr\lf"Please see attached" +
    crlf()+\cr\lf"the Sender"

    Changed the Message Type to HTML, same thing. Created an email template, exact same thing.

    I have been wrestling with this issue for several days...

    #2
    Re: Endless problems with A5 email client

    Instead of:
    Code:
    ="Dear "+Students->Name + crlf()+
    "Please see attached" + crlf()+
    "the Sender"
    put it all on one line as:
    Code:
    ="Dear "+Students->Name + crlf()+ "Please see attached" + crlf()+ "the Sender"
    The problem is you have pressed "enter" when typing in your formula to go to new lines of code and Alpha cannot interpret that correctly. If the formula "flows" to another line this is ok but you cannot break it into lines by pressing "enter".
    Garry

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      #3
      Re: Endless problems with A5 email client

      Garry: you saved me twice today. Big Thanks. :)
      Originally posted by Garry Flanigan View Post
      The problem is you have pressed "enter" when typing in your formula to go to new lines of code and Alpha cannot interpret that correctly. If the formula "flows" to another line this is ok but you cannot break it into lines by pressing "enter".
      Garry
      This is an old habit from FM... learned my lesson.

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        #4
        Re: Endless problems with A5 email client

        Yes but in the context of the Code Editor the backslash can function as a line continuation character (see image below). Then in an expression it can be an escape character (see the Help file for both items).

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          #5
          Re: Endless problems with A5 email client

          Hi Raymond:
          Good to know, thanks for the tip.
          The reason I used the "Enter" is to better "visualize" my expression; I can do without it easily. I have used it many times before with A5 and never suspected it could be a source of problems. Lesson learned.

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            #6
            Re: Endless problems with A5 email client

            Gaby is using AS. The backslash does not work in the "Expression Builder", but does work in the "Code Editor" when, for example, writing an xbasic script.

            It was only because I helped Gaby in another post that I realised that I realised Gaby was using "Action Script" rather than "email script" as it was described in the first post of this thread.

            Garry

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              #7
              Re: Endless problems with A5 email client

              Originally posted by Garry Flanigan View Post
              Gaby is using AS. The backslash does not work in the "Expression Builder", but does work in the "Code Editor" when, for example, writing an xbasic script.
              Yes but it does work in the Expression Builder when used as an escape character, as in "Dear \"Alice\"" which produces Dear "Alice". Garry I am sure you know this but Gaby and others new to A5 may not.

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