Re: Email multiple files from web page

So the selected files can be reached from the client PC via a mapped drive
or UNC path ?
In that case you should be able to either use CDO or automate Outlook to
create the mail.
However this raises a whole issue of browser security - you'd have to
decrease the security settings for your internal web domain.

You could also consider moving the whole file selection process to (eg) a
utility built in Excel/VB or an HTA application. Both of these would have
the required privileges to send mails.

I forget what was the original issue with doing this?

Tim


"Andrew Butchart" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Apr 19, 9:24 pm, "Tim" <tim j williams at gmail dot com> wrote:
Would it be possible to provide a page where the clerk can check a box
for
each PDF to be included, and have a text area where they can enter the
order
details ? On submit the server creates the mail (including the text they
entered) and attaches the appropriate files.

Depends on how they're finding the correct PDF's right now. How many
PDF's
are there in total ?

Tim

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On Apr 19, 2:24 am, "Tim Williams" <timjwilliams at gmail dot com>
wrote:
So they're adding [order] information into the pdf or in a separate
part
of
the mail?
Still not exactly clear on this...

Tim

They add notes and comments about delivery and handling to the email
body as well as attaching the product information sheets (pdf
documents).

The process is:
- Clerk gets the paper shipping order from the warehouse floor
identifying what's being shipped
- Clerk uses intranet application to pull up product information
sheets (pdf documents) (we can't accurately determine this in advance
- don't ask). If it's a single product - which it is most of the time
- they hit "send page by email" in IE, fill in the information about
the order in the email body, address the message to the customer
contact on file and send it off.
- If there's more than one product, they have to locally assemble all
the product information sheets on their local drive, then open an
email and attach the sheets and then document the order information in
the email body. This is an akward and inconvenient process for them
as I'm sure you can well imagine.
- The paper shipping order is then put in the bundle that the drive
takes with them and the move on to the next order.

Andrew B- Hide quoted text -

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Tim:

Thank you for your follow-up.

Usually there's just the one pdf but we have some (very important)
customers who may have 10 or more. Processing the batch through a
form is something that I've considered - in fact I'm already doing the
"checkbox" thing for assembling a batch for bulk printing (at the
client side via Javascript). There's a search form on our intranet
that I wrote that allows them to find the documents required.

I also already have an application on the server which will send mail
with attachments if I just post an entry into a SQL table and it
robotically picks that up and sends it along via SMTP. The users
would be very uncomfortable with having the server send the message
though so if I can do it at all on the client side, that would be
preferred. I can expose the selected pdf documents to the local
client file system so moving them across the network isn't a big issue
and if I can use CDO/MAPI to build the message, they'd be quite happy.

AndrewB



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