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:
No luck, didn't work either. But thank you for the suggestion, I hadn't seen that idea previously!
WebFOCUS 8.1/8.2, Windows 10/Server 2012
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>
Hallway
Prod: 8202M1
Test: 8202M4
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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.
WebFOCUS 8.1/8.2, Windows 10/Server 2012
November 14, 2019, 06:16 PM
FP Mod Chuck
Jay
Sounds like its time to open a case with techsupport...
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November 15, 2019, 07:49 AM
MartinY
Look at this doc and the last text line regarding "message=body message"
WF versions : Prod 8.2.04M gen 33, Dev 8.2.04M gen 33, OS : Windows, DB : MSSQL, Outputs : HTML, Excel, PDF In Focus since 2007
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.
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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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