Alpha Software Mobile Development Tools:   Alpha Anywhere    |   Alpha TransForm subscribe to our YouTube Channel  Follow Us on LinkedIn  Follow Us on Twitter  Follow Us on Facebook
Devcon 2020 Goes Virtual! LEARN MORE >

Announcement

Collapse

The Alpha Software Forum Participation Guidelines

The Alpha Software Forum is a free forum created for Alpha Software Developer Community to ask for help, exchange ideas, and share solutions. Alpha Software strives to create an environment where all members of the community can feel safe to participate. In order to ensure the Alpha Software Forum is a place where all feel welcome, forum participants are expected to behave as follows:
  • Be professional in your conduct
  • Be kind to others
  • Be constructive when giving feedback
  • Be open to new ideas and suggestions
  • Stay on topic


Be sure all comments and threads you post are respectful. Posts that contain any of the following content will be considered a violation of your agreement as a member of the Alpha Software Forum Community and will be moderated:
  • Spam.
  • Vulgar language.
  • Quotes from private conversations without permission, including pricing and other sales related discussions.
  • Personal attacks, insults, or subtle put-downs.
  • Harassment, bullying, threatening, mocking, shaming, or deriding anyone.
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language.
  • Sexually explicit or violent material, links, or language.
  • Pirated, hacked, or copyright-infringing material.
  • Encouraging of others to engage in the above behaviors.


If a thread or post is found to contain any of the content outlined above, a moderator may choose to take one of the following actions:
  • Remove the Post or Thread - the content is removed from the forum.
  • Place the User in Moderation - all posts and new threads must be approved by a moderator before they are posted.
  • Temporarily Ban the User - user is banned from forum for a period of time.
  • Permanently Ban the User - user is permanently banned from the forum.


Moderators may also rename posts and threads if they are too generic or do not property reflect the content.

Moderators may move threads if they have been posted in the incorrect forum.

Threads/Posts questioning specific moderator decisions or actions (such as "why was a user banned?") are not allowed and will be removed.

The owners of Alpha Software Corporation (Forum Owner) reserve the right to remove, edit, move, or close any thread for any reason; or ban any forum member without notice, reason, or explanation.

Community members are encouraged to click the "Report Post" icon in the lower left of a given post if they feel the post is in violation of the rules. This will alert the Moderators to take a look.

Alpha Software Corporation may amend the guidelines from time to time and may also vary the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the guidelines will be deemed agreement to any changes to it.



Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

When you do post
First, make sure you are posting your question in the correct forum. For example, if you post an issue regarding Desktop applications on the Mobile & Browser Applications board , not only will your question not be seen by the appropriate audience, it may also be removed or relocated.

The more detail you provide about your problem or question, the more likely someone is to understand your request and be able to help. A sample database with a minimum of records (and its support files, zipped together) will make it much easier to diagnose issues with your application. Screen shots of error messages are especially helpful.

When explaining how to reproduce your problem, please be as detailed as possible. Describe every step, click-by-click and keypress-by-keypress. Otherwise when others try to duplicate your problem, they may do something slightly different and end up with different results.

A note about attachments
You may only attach one file to each message. Attachment file size is limited to 2MB. If you need to include several files, you may do so by zipping them into a single archive.

If you forgot to attach your files to your post, please do NOT create a new thread. Instead, reply to your original message and attach the file there.

When attaching screen shots, it is best to attach an image file (.BMP, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, etc.) or a zip file of several images, as opposed to a Word document containing the screen shots. Because Word documents are prone to viruses, many message board users will not open your Word file, therefore limiting their ability to help you.

Similarly, if you are uploading a zipped archive, you should simply create a .ZIP file and not a self-extracting .EXE as many users will not run your EXE file.
See more
See less

Email_send

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
    #1

    Email_send

    I need to know the correct syntax for imbedding fields into the message text when using email_send(). I am not using a template. I am just using the function and its parameters. Thanks,

    Steve
    Tags: None
    #2
    RE: Email_send

    This example embeds variables but the principle is the same.

    email_send("[email protected]", \
    "AWG invoice data files - VMC items - for week ending "+dtoc(var-"edate), \
    "Files for "+dtoc(var-"edate),a5.Get_Path()+chr(92)+"awgfiles\vmcsums_"+cdate(var-"edate)+".xls")

    You just break up the text with quotes concatenate with a plus sign, and drop in the variable, field, etc. and if you want resume the text with another plus sign and more quoted text
    There can be only one.

    Comment

      #3
      RE: Email_send

      Thanks Stan:

      Perhaps you can clarify. My code is similiar to the example from Alpha noted below:

      body = ""%a%

      Just wanted to let you know that we really enjoy using Alpha Five.

      %a%

      email_send("[email protected]","Thanks",body,"","","",.T.)

      How do embed field data into the body? My code opens the table and goes through each record. For example, if I wanted the body to read: Firstname, Just wanted you to know.... Firstname being a field in the open table. I have tried a number of things to no avail. Thanks,

      Steve

      Comment

        #4
        RE: Email_send

        Probably

        body = ""%a%
        Just wanted to let you know that we really enjoy using Alpha Five.
        %a%
        body = firstname +", "+body

        Not where I can test tonight.
        There can be only one.

        Comment

          #5
          RE: Email_send

          What you are really asking has nothing to do with email_send(), you are asking how to concatenate strings.

          Here is some information:
          Character Operators
          Aaron Brown
          Alpha Software Development Team

          Comment

            #6
            RE: Email_send

            Stan and Aaron:

            Thanks. Your solution works. I guess my between the lines issues was to ubderstand exactly what the following syntax means:
            body = ""%a%
            Just wanted to let you know that we really enjoy using Alpha Five.
            %a%

            What exactly does the ""%a% .... %a% signify? I was trying to simply my task by imbedding field names qithin this structure so I could btter format the appearance. I was able to accomplish my goals by concatenation.

            Thanks,

            Steve

            Comment

              #7
              RE: Email_send

              Just search for "" in the docs.

              The "" delimiter in an Xbasic script is used when you want to enter a long quoted string over many lines. The syntax of the "" delimiter is:

              ""%marker%
              text�
              text�
              text..
              %marker%

              %marker% is a tag that indicates the start of the string and the end of the string. The actual text used for the marker is irrelevant. The only requirement is that the marker at the beginning of the string must match the marker at the end of the string. In the above example, the text "code" is used as the marker.
              There can be only one.

              Comment

                #8
                RE: Email_send

                In the documentation, I went to "Index" and typed "
                &lt&lt%code%
                Aaron Brown
                Alpha Software Development Team

                Comment

                Previous template Next
                Working...
                X