Fax, email or print

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For FAX and e-mail, look at the MAPI control if you have it?

Thanks for the fast reply.  I do have the MAPI controls.  I guess the real problem seems to be how to fax.  My program needs to read the fax phone number and send the fax to that number, without user intervention.  I can't find anything on faxing in the MAPI help.

email is also a little confusing, since I want to email (or fax or print) the output from a report.  How would that be done?

This has got to be a common thing to do.

At this late stage, I am hoping for a code example, say somthing like:

do until Company.eof
... get strDeliveryMode      '  E=email, F=fax, P=Print
                             ' Don't need help here

  Select case strDeliveryMode
     case "P"
        ... print it         ' Don't need help here

     case "E"
        ... get strAddress   ' email address (internet)
                             ' Don't need help on that either

'>>> and here's where I need help:
        ... send report via email
     case "F"
        ... get strAddress   ' fax phone Number
                             ' don't need help here

'>>> also need help here:
        ... send report via fax  ' Must dial phone without
                                 ' without operator intervention
  end select

loop
 

I think it should all be possible via MAPI if you install the fax service which is used in Windows Messaging. I am not sure if I'll be able to provide you with a MAPI sample quickly enough though, so I won't attempt an answer right now.

Hello John !

I am interested of this code if you can make it work.
I use VB5 and have the MAPI controls.

Janne Sweden

janne.a@mailbox.swipnet.se

y96andha -- Its quick enough if it beats any others.  So far, I'm still at the same spot.  Have another project kicking off tomrrow, so there is still no chance for me to dig in.

jannea  -- be my guest.  If we get it working, share away.

-- John

Check out Q145787 and Q125853 in The MS Knowledge Base.  These are not complete solutions, but they'll get you in the ballpark.

Sorry for the delay getting back.  Had to get the articles, write the code and test.  Got it all working.  Thanks very much.

-- John

Guess you'll have to answer me so that I can grade the answer.  Thanks again.  The Knowledge base articles led to a line of research.  While one of the articles did not help directly, being for EXCEL, the "see also's" and related topics got me the rest.  I just today provided the working code to the client.

Thanks for your code John !

But i have solve my problem in another way whith MAPI-Calls, Keep in toutch if you are interested.
I´ll  found a book 'MAPI, SAPI & TAPI' by Michael Amundsen, I think its wery good book if you work with this kind off App´s.

/Janne SWEDEN

Hello John Price!!

Im interested in this code too, i like to know if you can share it with me.
Months ago i asked some question like this and got no response.

10,000 thanks in advance.
OLX.

olx@hotmail.com

Note to board sysops:  I don't know how to award the points at this point.  I guess Cymbolic deserves the points.  He didn't give me the answer, but pointed me to it, and so probably deserves a c - b grade on the answer?  Thanks.

Well, I got my problem solved, and that was the purpose.  High grade or not, I appreciate your response.  It saved me the time spent looking through the kb.  The end result is a kick.  Thanks.

Here is the code for all to share:

Private Sub cmdPrintReports_Click()
    Dim strDBName As String         ' name of database
    Dim rsCreditUnion As Recordset  ' Credit Union table
    Dim strbin As String            ' BIN ID
    Dim strDeliverOption As String  ' "M"=MAil, "E"=Email, "F"=Fax
    Dim strAddress As String        ' email address or fax number
    Dim strReportName As String     ' Name of report
    Dim strWhere As String          ' Where clause
    Dim rptReport As Report         ' Report object being printed
   
' Open table
    Set rsCreditUnion = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("tblCreditUnion", dbOpenTable)
    rsCreditUnion.MoveFirst
   
    strDBName = CurrentDb.NAME
    strReportName = "rptSummarySheet"
   
    Do Until rsCreditUnion.EOF
' get credit union information
       strbin = rsCreditUnion("txtBIN")
       strDeliverOption = rsCreditUnion("txtDeliverOption") & ""
   
       strWhere = "txtBinNumber='" & strbin & "'"

' This report uses a query which is built from the tblHeaders and
' tblHistory tables.
' strWhere is the appropriate "Where" clause for this BIN.
           
            Select Case UCase(strDeliverOption)
               
                Case "M"                                                            ‘ Mail (hard copy)
    ' Reference: Q145707
                    If Not OLEOpenReport(strDBName, _
                        strReportName, _
                        acNormal, _
                        , _
                        strWhere) Then
                       '... Log exception to log file
                    End If
   
                Case "F"                                                            ‘ Fax
    ' Reference: Q145787
                    strAddress = rsCreditUnion("txtAddress")
                    Reports(strReportName).Filter = strWhere
                    DoCmd.SendObject acReport, _
                        strReportName, _
                        acFormatRTF, _
                        "[fax:" & strAddress & "]", , , , , _
                        False
   
                Case "E"                                                            ‘ Email
    ' Reference: Q145787
                    strAddress = rsCreditUnion("txtAddress")
                    DoCmd.OpenReport strReportName, acViewDesign

                    Reports(strReportName).Filter = strWhere
                    DoCmd.Close acReport, strReportName, acSaveYes
                    DoCmd.SendObject acReport, _
                        strReportName, _
                        acFormatRTF, _         ‘<<<<<<< could also use acFormatTXT
                        strAddress, , , , , _
                        False
            
                Case "T"                 ' Text file
' 4th param to .OutputTo - file name of file to create
                    strAddress = rsCreditUnion("txtAddress")
                    DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, _
                        strReportName, _
                        acFormatTXT, _
                        strAddress, _
                        False

            End Select
        End If
        rsCreditUnion.MoveNext
    Loop

' Close and release the table
    rsCreditUnion.Close
    Set rsCreditUnion = Nothing
End Sub


the function OLEOpenReport is in the referenced article, and I simply copied it and it’s sister function to a new module.  Works neat.