Re: Copying the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder into the text ofa new message. THANK YOU ALL.
DG Is it possible to copy the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder DG into the TEXT of a new message? Thank you all for your interest and for your help. TBUDL is amazing. This is the second time I posted a detailed requirement and harvested a well-engineered, full-scale solution to my problem. Thanks again, -- Dan Using The Bat! v1.62 Christmas Edition on Windows 95 4.0 Build a -- Daniel A. Grunberg Kensington, Maryland, USA homepage: www.nyx.net/~dgrunber/ Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Copying the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder into the text ofa new message. THANK YOU ALL.
Hallo Daniel, On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:08:09 -0500GMT (9-2-03, 17:08 +0100, where I live), you wrote: DG TBUDL is amazing. This is the second time I posted a detailed DG requirement and harvested a well-engineered, full-scale solution DG to my problem. Well, let's say it's fun to solve a puzzle. -- Groetjes, Roelof Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Copying the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder into the text ofa new message.
Hallo Daniel, On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:18:40 -0500GMT (7-2-03, 15:18 +0100, where I live), you wrote: DG Is it possible to copy the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder DG into the TEXT of a new message? No. What do you want to do? After all the message list window contains icons too, but there might be a workaround for text items. -- Groetjes, Roelof Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Copying the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder into the text ofa new message.
Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:54:39 [GMT +0100] (9:54 AM EST here) Roelof Otten wrote: On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:18:40 -0500GMT (7-2-03, 15:18 +0100, where I live), Roelof Otten wrote: DG Is it possible to copy the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder DG into the TEXT of a new message? No. What do you want to do? After all the message list window contains icons too, but there might be a workaround for text items. I am responsible for our amateur chamber music society's weekly, e-mailed meeting reminder. Each of our thirty or so members replies to the weekly message. Each reply has a formalized Subject: line, which includes either YES or NO, the replying member's name, and the date of the meeting. Unfortunately, our society's director is a computer-uncertain individual, and he refuses to deal with the individual replies. Instead, I must make a list of the YES and NO replies, and e-mail the list, to the director, in a single message. (The director uses the information in his scheduling of the small, chamber-sized groups of musicians, who will play together during the evening.) I use TheBat! to filter the messages into separate YES and NO folders. I have been sorting each folder's subjects into alphabetically-ordered lists of who will and who will not attend, and manually typing copies of the subjects into the text of the single e-mail message to the director. I'd like to automate the incorporation of the information in the two folders' message lists, into the text of a single message. Ideally, I'd like only the subjects of the messages to appear in the text of the single message. (If necessary, everything in the lists would be acceptable.) If it is not possible to generate the message automatically, I'd like to highlight, cut and paste information from the two folders' message message lists into the text of the single message. Thank you for your help. -- Dan Using The Bat! v1.62 Christmas Edition on Windows 95 4.0 Build a -- Daniel A. Grunberg Kensington, Maryland, USA homepage: www.nyx.net/~dgrunber/ Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Copying the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder into the text ofa new message.
Hallo Daniel, On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:03:36 -0500GMT (7-2-03, 17:03 +0100, where I live), you wrote: DG I use TheBat! to filter the messages into separate YES and NO DG folders. I have been sorting each folder's subjects into DG alphabetically-ordered lists of who will and who will not attend, DG and manually typing copies of the subjects into the text of the DG single e-mail message to the director. That can be done with TB. I can't find a way to automatically sort with TB, but the rest can be done. Give each filter the action 'Export message to file', you can export both yes and no responses into the same file or you can use two files (c:\vote-yes.txt and c:\vote-no-txt). Choose as export-format 'text' Check 'Append to existing file' There's a template icon available for this action, delete the existing template and replace it for this: %FromName %FromAddr%Subj You can skip the %FromAddr if you don't want to include their e-mail address. So far you've collected the data. Now you'd like to send the stuff. Create a Quick Template (Options - Quick Templates - Add) Call it votes And use this in it: ,- | %To=''%To='Director %Director-Address' | Hi boss, | | These people are coming: | %Put=c:\vote-yes.txt | | These people can't make it: | %Put=c:\vote-no.txt | |%Subject=%This week's votes `- Of course you can alter/add things like the director's name and address according to your wishes. (Don't use the '|' and '-', they're only used to separate the QT from the rest of my messages.) You can call a quick template by typing it's name in your message-body followed immediately by Ctrl-space. Only thing that's lacking now is the resetting of your vote-boxes to zero after you're done. Create an outgoing filter that checks for Subject: This week's votes present in kludges. Don't go checking for This week's votes in subject, because that would also be triggered by Re: This week's votes in case your director replies and you reply back. Use as action for this filter Run external program and use as external program del c:\vote-*.txt It's also possible to get your stuff sorted. You'd need to create a batch-file for that. (A batch-file is a text-file calling several dos commands to automate things, they always have the file extension .bat, but they're not related to our favourite mail client.) Let's call it c:\votes.bat and put this in it: ,- | c: | cd\ | sort vote-yes.txt vote-yes.srt | sort vote-no.txt vote-no.srt | del vote-*.txt | ren vote-*.srt *.txt `- You can run this batch-file to double click on it in the explorer (or create a link on your desktop) If you'd like to automate process completely, that can be done too. Save the quick template to a text file called c:\votes.tpl and add the following line to your batch-file: c:\progra~1\thebat~1\thebat.exe/mailu=YOURACCOUNTt=c:\votes.tpl replace YOURACCOUNT with the name of the account you'd like to use as it appears in TB's tree view. (A name with spaces in it, should be surrounded by quotation marks.) The last step to total automation is to create a new schedule in your windows scheduler and make it run c:\votes.bat each week on a fixed time. Of course I didn't test this setup and may have made typing errors, so I'd suggest you do some testing first. -- Groetjes, Roelof Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Copying the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder into the text ofa new message.
Hello Daniel, snipped quite a bit If it is not possible to generate the message automatically, I'd like to highlight, cut and paste information from the two folders' message message lists into the text of the single message. Try something, it should work: 1.- Open your Account/Properties/Templates/Save message 2.- and change the Save message template you see there to something like: %OFromName %OFromAddr %OSubj 3.- Click OK. Then select your Yes/No folders, highlight all messages you see on the message list pane and select Message/Save as (or right click and Save as, or Ctrl+S) and save to a text file. This txt file should contain the list you want. Then, when you have the editor open to write the message to your director, you can select Edit/Paste from... and select the file(s) you have just created. It works :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.61 Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Copying the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder into the text ofa new message.
Hello Daniel, Friday, February 7, 2003, 10:48:40 AM, you wrote: DG Is it possible to copy the LIST of messages in a TheBat! folder into DG the TEXT of a new message? By list of messages, do you mean the message bodies? Or the message list/index? -- Best regards, Adam Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
