Gary - You should take up night-shooting, as your shot in the dark was
right on. Both I and my predecessor have modified some layouts and scripts.
And it looks to me like something we did caused ebase to lose the
connection to the "utility layout" you were describing. In fact, now that I
think about it, my predecessor did leave me some note about needing to fix
the Bcc script.
Would you mind printing your copy of Script #200c and faxing it to me at
510-740-3131? I'm hoping that I can find the layout.
Or, alternately, go into Scriptmaker, look at Script "200c - Send Batch to
BCC", and tell me the name of the utility layout and maybe what fields are
on it.
Here's my summary of "200c - Send Batch to BCC" as it appears on my ebase:
- aborts if there are too many records in the found set
- Initializes two fields
- Goes to Layout: "Send Email Status Screen" (this is the layout you reach
at the end of this step, that tells you how many emails are in the found
set, how many processed, how many still to process, number sent, and bad
addresses).
- Initializes a bunch more fields
- Starts a loop, in which (I think, although my knowledge of Filemaker
scripting is limited) it cycles through the records in the found set and
sets a bunch of fields, including "gBccList", the field that should hold
the long list of email addresses
- Freezes the window
- Go to Layout [<unknown>] - **** A-HA HERE'S THE PROBLEM ****
- Copy gBccList
- Go to Layout [Send Email Status Screen]
- Show Message saying that the email address are in the clipboard
- Send Mail
Gary - thank you thank you, you 'da man!
Jeff
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Jeff Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
East Bay Coordinator
Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition (BATLUC)
http://www.transcoalition.org
phone: 510-740-3102
fax: 510-740-3131
At 09:17 AM 6/26/2001 -0400, Bogue, Gary wrote:
>Hi Jeff,
>
>This is just a shot in the dark, but have you modified any fields/layouts
>(or scripts)? The FileMaker Copy command will only work for a field which is
>present on the current layout and which is also unlocked - that is, you can
>click and the cursor appears in the field. Incidentally, the Cut and Replace
>commands also have the same limitations.
>
>I'm going on fuzzy memory here, since I don't have ebase running, but as I
>recall the script sends you to a utility layout where the email addresses
>are grouped into a field or fields and copies them. Then it switches you
>back, so you never see the utility layout. If it can't get to the proper
>layout, or if the field is locked, the results would be as you describe. You
>have to follow the scripts and analyze what's happening. There are probably
>a series of nested scripts.
>
>To print scripts, go to the File menu and choose Print. One of the dialog
>options is to print all scripts or one selected script. The printout you get
>is sort of ugly, but it works.
>
>Gary Bogue
>The Valentown Museum &
>Landmark Society of Western NY
>
>
>> Subject: "Batch email" won't copy addresses to clipboard
>> From: Jeff Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:04:12 -0700
>> X-Message-Number: 7
>>
>> Folks - I'm looking for some help in using ebase to send out newsletters.
>>
>> I'm trying to use the email feature, but I can only get it to work for
>> "custom" emails, not for batch emails. I think the "Copy" command buried
>> in
>> the batch email script is not working, but I haven't been able to figure
>> it
>> out how to fix it with the debugging I've done so far.
>>
>> Has anyone had this problem & is there a good bug-fix?
>>
>> Here's what I do:
>> - find the group of people I want to send to
>> - on Output layout, click "Email" button
>> - click "Yes" to blank out CC & PS fields
>> - create text (i've tried both from scratch & from source code)
>> - create source codes (or not - i've tried both)
>> - check email addresses (or not - i've tried both)
>> - click "Yes, Send email now" under "Send Email for Found Set?"
>> - click "Batch" when asked whether to send as Batch, Custom, or Cancel
>> - click "OK" when it puts up the message saying that the addresses have
>> been pasted into the clipboard.
>> - switch over to my email program - when I "Paste", I don't get the
>> addresses, I get whatever it is that was most recently copied or cut
>> before
>> I told ebase to send emails.
>>
>> I've reviewed the scripts, and it looks like script 200c is where the
>> copying should happen, but I haven't been able to isolate what isn't
>> happening correctly. Any ideas?
>>
>> Also, does anyone know how to print out script definitions? It would make
>> it easier to debug, but I don't know how to do it.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>> *****************************
>> Jeff Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> East Bay Coordinator
>> Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition (BATLUC)
>> http://www.transcoalition.org
>>
>
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