Hello Experts,
Kinda stuck. I need ideas for the best way to do this, keeping in mind that I have about 60 templates that will have to work this way. A user clicks on a button "Templates" selects a template, a dialog box opens that will populate the information on this template i.e. name, title subject etc. Once this information is completed (here is where I get a little ify) the user clicks OK. What I need is to pass that information on to the template then copy (editSelectAll) the data and open a mail memo with that data pasted to the body. Something like this:
@Command([FileSave]);
@Command([EditSelectAll]);
@Command([EditCopy]);
@Command([Compose]; @MailDbName; "Memo");
@Command([EditGotoField];"
@Command([EditPaste];"Body
Which obviously is not working.
What I've done is created the template with the fields that need to be populated. In a view I created a button that the user can select the template in the template(form) In the post open I am opening the dialog box, they enter the data necessary then the template opens. Then on the template I have another button that does the:
@Command([FileSave]);
@Command([EditSelectAll]);
@Command([EditCopy]);
@Command([Compose]; @MailDbName; "Memo");
@Command([EditGotoField];"
@Command([EditPaste];"Body
Which obviously is not working.
In reality the document(template) does not need to be saved since it will be filed once the email is sent. I need to simplify this so that one button will open the dialog box populate the template, create the email with the data in the body field and display only the email ready to be sent.
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Looking to copy the data that is on the form as is and paste it, as is, into the email body allowing the user to edit if necessary. The form (template) is already formated as it should look in the email. Basically a simple copy/paste to an email. I can open the template with the data for the user then have them copy and paste it into an email but they could do that with the template in MS word. The intent is to have them do it all in as few clicks as possible.
You cannot place a form in read-mode if the document isn't saved. AFAIK, you cannot copy everything that is on a form as text either. The options, as I see them, are:
- a picture (that cannot be modified)
- save the document, copy the content, and delete the document
- copy field by field (hence losing all formatting)
- send the entire form
Why do you want them to modify the mail?
Why don't you save the form and let them mail a doclink?? That would really be using Notes' powers...
This goes to clients that are not notes users so a doc link is out of the question. Don't know how sending the entire form will look, haven't tried that....I have no problem saving the document then doing the copy of content (deleting the doc is not releveant, I can create an agent that will delete them at night.) My main concern is that the format on the form is transfered over to the mail with all the data.
Oh, to the outside world... Sad that there are still people who don't use Notes... ;-))
So the scenario would be, when a button is clicked:
- save the document
- place it in read-only mode: @Command([EditDocument]; "0")
- select all
- copy all
- compose a mail document
- go to the Body field
- paste the text
When the button is clicked I am opening a small dialog box that the user interacts with ( person name, file number etc) when they click OK on the dialog box I currently open the template(form), what I would like is to save the doc in the back end with the data from the dialog box, and open a mail document with the contents of the form pasted to the body of the email.
Well I have the forms (templates) I have the dialog box I have the button that will open the dialog box and launch the templatewith the data in it I just need it to copy the data into an mail. I'd prefer if when the dialog box is populated the backend doc (template) is completed and saved and the only thing that opens is the email with the content of the form in the body.
Right now I can populate the template and it opens fine with the data from the dialog box. My Create Email button only copies the data from one field that the user has to interact with on the template (this is optional as I can add this information to the dialog box.) So basically when a user clicks the Create email button a new memo comes open the body has the data from the one field in the template form. Argghhhh, this is the create button formula:
@Command([FileSave]);
@Command([EditSelectAll]);
@Command([EditCopy]);
@Command([Compose]; @MailDbName; "Memo");
@Command([EditGotoField];"
@Command([EditPaste])
Why did they abandon this question so quickly?!? I was on a trip couldn't get to the site!!!! I'm still needing help with this. You'd think you could just copy and paste the data on document/form and paste it into an email....as I mentioned, the @command MailForward does 90% of the job, I just need it on the top of the email without all the additional forward mail stuff. OK Experts points up to 500....Either a script or a formula to do this....There has to be an easy way of doing this!
As a mathematician I say: if MailForward almost does what you want, it does not what you want.
Did you try this:
@Command([FileSave]);
@Command([EditDocument]; "0");
@Command([EditSelectAll]);
@Command([EditCopy]);
@Command([Compose]; @MailDbName; "Memo");
@UpdateFormulaContext ;
@Command([EditGotoField];"
@Command([EditPaste];"Body
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by: sjef_bosmanPosted on 2009-09-15 at 15:08:50ID: 25340125
Do you want the data as fields or just as text? Do you want the mail formatted or just as a jumble of data? What if you put the form in read-mode and then you do an EditSelectAll, and paste that in the mail?
I suppose the RenderToRTItem method of NotesDocument is not what you had in mind. And how about sending the form with the document?? See the Send method with the parameter True.
Kinda fishy what you want. Or unclear at the least...
Just another idea: export the document as DXL, via a NotesDXLExporter, and use that