[SOLVED] EDAMAIL Carriage Returns

November 13, 2019, 01:21 PM

Jay Ervin

Hello!

I am attempting to add carriage returns into the body of an EDAMAIL email, but falling flat because of the single attachment limit. Has anybody found a solution to formatting the email body without attaching it as an HTM? The below code runs, but it lumps all three lines of message onto a single line:

EX -lines 9 EDAMAIL 
TOADDR=jervin@customsoftwaresystems.com,
SUBJECT=Test Email, 
FLAGS=A, 
FILETYPE=PDF, 
FILENAME= &APPPATH/&FILENAME, 
MESSAGE=Hello,

File attached.

Thanks.

I've made all sorts of attempts with CNTRCHAR, CTRAN, STRREP, and so on, so I appreciate any new approaches that I may have overlooked.

Thanks!
Jay

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November 13, 2019, 09:23 PM

Hallway

Maybe try the new line character \n at the end of each line.

  
EX -lines 9 EDAMAIL 
TOADDR=jervin@customsoftwaresystems.com,
SUBJECT=Test Email, 
FLAGS=A, 
FILETYPE=PDF, 
FILENAME= &APPPATH/&FILENAME, 
MESSAGE=Hello,\n
\n
File attached.\n
\n
Thanks.

November 14, 2019, 09:05 AM

Jay Ervin

quote:
Originally posted by Hallway:
Maybe try the new line character \n at the end of each line.
  
EX -lines 9 EDAMAIL 
TOADDR=jervin@customsoftwaresystems.com,
SUBJECT=Test Email, 
FLAGS=A, 
FILETYPE=PDF, 
FILENAME= &APPPATH/&FILENAME, 
MESSAGE=Hello,\n
\n
File attached.\n
\n
Thanks.

No luck, didn't work either. But thank you for the suggestion, I hadn't seen that idea previously!

November 14, 2019, 10:48 AM

Hallway

Our EDAMAIL is not set up, so I cannot test this on my end. That said, here's another stab in the dark. What about using the html tag <br>

November 14, 2019, 03:48 PM

Jay Ervin

quote:
Originally posted by Hallway:
Our EDAMAIL is not set up, so I cannot test this on my end. That said, here's another stab in the dark. What about using the html tag

Another good thought, but nope. It doesn't recognize html tags as such, and just types them out into the body.

November 14, 2019, 06:16 PM

FP Mod Chuck

Jay

Sounds like its time to open a case with techsupport...

November 15, 2019, 07:49 AM

MartinY

Look at this doc and the last text line regarding "message=body message"

The explanation may be there
EDAMAIL

November 15, 2019, 08:11 AM

Tony A

As Martin suggests, the answer is in the document.

The following is from the 8.1.05 doc

message=body message
Is the inline data stream containing the email message body. If used, it must be the last parameter in the EDAMAIL command. To use the inline data stream feature, the filetype and filename parameters cannot be supplied. The data stream may also be spread onto multiple lines if EDAMAIL is used with the EX -LINES {n|*} feature.

If an inline data stream message body is spread across multiple lines in the procedure, the resulting email is a single line of output. Multi-line message bodies are respected when the message body from a file option is used.

T

November 15, 2019, 12:45 PM

Hallway

So, in reading the docs, one would think that it is indeed possible to send a multi-line email message. Of course in typical IBI Document fashion, the example that is given is EXTREMELY vague. It uses undefined parameters so we have no idea how to actually do this

Example: Mailing a Multi-line Inline Message

...
EX -LINES * EDAMAIL user1@corp1.com, user2@corp1.com, &SUBJECT,,, 
Run result for &TESTNAME is:
&RESULT
EDAMAIL*

Any ideas TonyA?
🤔

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