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    Poohbear0471 is offline Advanced Beginner
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    emaildatabaseobject message formatting

    I have an email button to send email notifications of new or updated records (using the Access 2010 Call Tracker template, Call Details form). Two questions...



    From what I've read, it is not possible to include any attachments from the record into the email, correct?

    How do format my message to include paragraphs, etc? Do I just need to use a format other than plain text?

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    Thanks!

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    If you mean attachments from the attachment data type, I don't think so but I don't/won't use that. I don't use macros either, but I think you can concatenate Chr(13) & Chr(10) into the string for a line feed. For more complicated formatting (bold, etc) you'd have to switch to a VBA method where you can use html body.
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    Requires VBA manipulating Outlook objects to attach files to email. If the file(s) are in attachment type field, must first extract to external folder location.

    Most experienced developers do not embed files into database. The above situation is only one reason why. Another is that files quickly use up Access 2GB file size limit.
    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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    Paul,

    Thank you very much for your help. The Chr(10) was all I needed to include to get the line feed.

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    June7,

    How do you recommend handling attachments? As linked documents? That would certainly avoid the 2gb limit and would be simple enough to implement.

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    Save full file path/name in text field. Or build path with an expression. As example, say you have employee JPG images in a folder sitting next to database and EmployeeID values are used to name image files. To display images in an Image Control on form or report, Image Control ControlSource property can be an expression:

    = CurrentProject.Path & "\Images\" & [EmployeeID] & ".jpg"

    However, if this is a split db with frontend installed on each user workstation, CurrentProject.Path won't work. So if Images folder is on server:

    = "\\servername\folder path\Images\" & [EmployeeID] & ".jpg"

    Building path string for file to attach to email can follow similar structure.
    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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    Awesome! Thank you very much for your help!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poohbear0471 View Post
    Paul,

    Thank you very much for your help. The Chr(10) was all I needed to include to get the line feed.
    Happy to help!
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