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Using HTML to 'Force' Text in Policy Patrol Disclaimer
Hi all,
I know pretty much zero about html so here goes -
I'm using Policy Patrol Disclaimers to automate email signatures with a logo.
Within PPD you have the 'dummy window' as I call it; type in your formatted text, link your parameters, insert logo and you're done. Aside from the dummy window is the HTML window with all the code that you can clearly modify what you wish (if you know what you're entering!)
The signature information is drawn from the Active Directory and as such is already formatted.
And so, is it possible to modify the HTML to do the following:
1) Force user names from Title Case to UPPER CASE?
2) Force the removal of the hyperlink from the users email address when it sends?
(i.e. so the recipient only gets the user email address in formatted text form and not as a blue hyperlink.)
3) Font Choice - by specifying a font within HTML, does that 'over ride' fonts installed on the Exchange server and thus magically use them OR does that specified font have to be installed? (please stop laughing :) )
If yes to the above, can you please provide what I need and where to position it within the code?
Any help that you can offer me would be greatly appreciated as this task is getting way overdue for me and I'm log jammed on these points in trying to produce what I've been requested to do.
Cheers!
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Sure sure and I guess that's the sub question - is what I've been asked and in turn I am asking - 'doable'?
Given that Policy Patrol is really only reading parameters, I'm currently having a fiddle with the options now if things aren't looking too bright for this topic.
(i.e. User Name in Active Directory if changed to upper case will send and display in emails in upper case and looks awkward. So - leave the user name in title case and perhaps say put the user name in upper case in the 'company state/province' field within AD. It's only a parameter, I get the result I'm chasing and the appearance within emails remains normal.)
I'm did a little googling and is this what you're referring to?
http://www.policypatrol.co
In that case, you can simply click the HTML source tab at the bottom and change it.
Remove the <a> tags around the email address:
<a href="mailto:a@b.com">Email
Email Address
To make the text upper case:
<span style="text-transform:uppe
Hi all, my apologies for my absence. (Let's just say there's been a bit on!)
nivlam:
First;- your text to upper case is correct and will achieve what I want to do. Thank you!
I had figured out another way to do it with Active Directory and Policy Patrol Disclaimers (PPD) but this is the html solution I was looking for, so thanks again!
Second; - your link above is right and yes I'm aware of the HTML source tab. With 'PPD' you can insert reference fields that merely draw on information within the Active Directory information for each user.
>> I cannot see anywhere in the HTML tab any <a> tag references to remove.
I'm finding that different email clients will treat the email address within the PPD signature differently.
By entering the email address into a different field within Active Directory and simply using a different reference field when creating the signature;
> I can send it from Outlook 2003 at work to my home Thunderbird client and it appears exactly as I want it. > I can send it from Outlook 2003 at work to my wife on Outlook 2007 and it will appear hyperlinked - yet, when my wife replied from 2007 to 2003 it arrived without the hyperlink back at the originating Outlook 2003 end. Go figure??!!
So is this just a client issue or are there some other tags I should be trying??
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by: geodan7Posted on 2008-08-26 at 05:57:45ID: 22314033
Hi there,
Given your experience with HTML, you may need to learn a bit of JavaScript and possibly CSS.
Your #1 above requires the JavaScript method "toUpperCase()". You would call that on whatever string/text variable. For example,
var myString = document.getElementById("T
document.getElementById("T
This assumes that you have some kind HTML element with the "id" attribute of "Title Case".
#2 above also requires JavaScript....using the "substring" function on the string variable
#3 Using CSS, you can change or override fonts and other styling information.
You may need to request the assistance of a programmer/scripter, or someone who is a bit more familiar with these concepts as they could be tricky for you if you're new to HTML.
good luck,