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Lotus Notes copying cells from excel and mailing them

Hi,

I am wordering if there is a way in Lotus Notes (or any other means) to be able to automatically program it to highlight certain cells in MS Excel, copy them to clipboard, create a new email, paste them to this email, read another cell to get the email address, and send the email off.

is this possible?

I do not want to send a file as an attachment, I want the cells to be pasted directly into the body of the email.

This is important, I need your help.

Many Thanks
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madheeswar
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I got it from Web somewhere...

 This imports data from Excel into Lotus Notes, skipping blank lines and column headers. This will only import 100 records at a time and can be changed by changing the written value.

Sub Initialize
 Dim FileNum As Integer
 Dim xlFilename As String

 Filenum% = Freefile()
 xlFileName$ = Inputbox("What file name and path? example:H:
\June282001.xls")

 Dim session As New NotesSession
 Dim db As NotesDatabase
 Dim view As NotesView
 Dim doc As NotesDocument
 Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
 Set doc = New NotesDocument(db)
 Dim One As String

 Dim row As Integer
 Dim written As Integer

 '// Next we connect to Excel and
open the file. Then start pulling over the records.
 Dim Excel As Variant
 Dim xlWorkbook As Variant
 Dim xlSheet As Variant
 Print "Connecting to Excel..."
 Set Excel = CreateObject( "Excel.Application.8" )
 Excel.Visible = False '// Don't display the Excel window
 Print "Opening " & xlFilename & "..."
 Excel.Workbooks.Open xlFilename '// Open the Excel file
 Set xlWorkbook = Excel.ActiveWorkbook
 Set xlSheet = xlWorkbook.ActiveSheet

 '// Cycle through the rows of the
Excel file, pulling the data over to Notes
 Goto Records
 Print "Disconnecting from Excel..."
 xlWorkbook.Close False '// Close the Excel file without saving (we
made no changes)
 Excel.Quit '// Close Excel
 Set Excel = Nothing '// Free the memory that we'd used
 Print " " '// Clear the status line


Records:
 row = 0 '// These integers intialize to zero anyway
 written = 0

 Print "Starting import from Excel file..."

 Do While True
Finish:
 With xlSheet
 row = row + 1
 Set view = db.GetView("Main View")
 Set doc = db.CreateDocument '// Create a new doc
 doc.Form = "ImportForm1"

 If .Cells (row, 1).Value = "" And .Cells(row,2).Value = ""
And .Cells (row, 3).Value = "" And .Cells(row,4).Value = "" And .Cells
(row, 5).Value = "" And .Cells(row,6).Value = "" And .Cells (row, 7).Value
= "" And .Cells(row,8).Value = "" And .Cells (row, 9).Value = "" And
.Cells(row,10).Value = ""Then
 Goto Finish
 End If

 If .Cells (row, 1).Value = "PO #" And .Cells(row,2).Value
= "Order #" And .Cells (row, 3).Value = "Order da" And .Cells(row,4).Value
= "Part #" And .Cells (row, 5).Value = "Or" And .Cells(row,6).Value
= "Line " And .Cells (row, 7).Value = "Qty" And .Cells(row,8).Value
= "Unit pri" And .Cells (row, 9).Value = "Ship to Company" And
.Cells(row,10).Value = "Ship method"Then
 Goto Finish
 End If


 doc.SWEPO = .Cells( row, 1 ).Value
 doc.SWEORDER = .Cells(row, 2 ).Value
 doc.SWEORDERDATE = .Cells(row, 3).Value
 doc.ITEMNUMBER = .Cells( row, 4 ).Value
 doc.ORDERSTATUS = .Cells(row, 5).Value
 doc.QUANTITYORDERED = .Cells( row, 6).Value
 doc.AMOUNTBILLED = .Cells(row, 7).Value
 doc.SHIPMETHOD = .Cells( row, 8).Value
 doc.SHIPDATE = .Cells(row, 9).Value
 doc.TRACKINGNUMBER = .Cells(row, 10).Value


 Call doc.Save( True, True ) '// Save the new doc

 written = written + 1
 Print written
 If written = 5 Then
 Print written
 Goto Finish
 Else
 Print written
 Messagebox "Finished"
 Goto Done
 End If
 End With
 Loop
 Return
Done:
End Sub
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marilyng

Unfortunately, that will help to read the file, but not to paste it into new email memo.  

What you ask is somewhat possible, but a lot of coding either from excel or from notes.

The way to open a file is above, but after you read "cells", you also need to compose a mail memo on the back end, and fill the values you want pasted into the rich text field, and then open the email for editing.

The problem you're always going to have is the control of the Excel worksheet.  The "copied" cells have to consistently have the same value, in the same location, else every time you run your agent, your copied or mail to values just won't work.

So, you either have to construct the process in excel visual basic or move the entire process into a Notes database just for consistency.

Either way, you'll have to start with your code and then ask us to help,  
try this to select and copy cells from an excel  worksheet.

    xlSheet.Range("A1:F6").Select
    Excel.Selection.Copy

xlSheet = excel worksheet object , Excel = excel application object  as used in madheeswar's sample above.
Now all you need to do is open the new mail memo and use  a windows API call to paste the clipboard into the  body section of the memo.  
Now, automatically copy means you need a bit more logic, doesn't it?
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Ok I will be doing this from excel, There is a lotus notes API that can be used from excel.
I will be using that, thank you for your help
much easier then. in excel, record a macro to select and copy cells then use the generated code to automate the process. the problem i see though is that when it comes to pasting the cells in the body of the email that your program will be sending.
Yup, which is what I said would be the problem.
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