Re: Emailing in Scribe

[Krishnan Sarangarajan <ksaranga@RUAN.COM>]

Jason - Though this message is not related to SQRWT, I hope that it sheds
some light on what you are trying to achieve.

Here at Ruan, we have always had the need to mail reports from within an
SQR.

Exchange & Outlook 97 [our mail applications] do not seem to have the
ability to be invoked from a command line such that a message can be sent
without any user intervention. Or, if there was a way, we couldn't figure it
out.

A colleague of mine, who works with VB, had some code that achieved what we
wanted. However, we didn't want to use VB as the intermediary. This is what
we agreed on :

1. SQR runs and creates a report [LIS file] for each of the terminals in
question,

2. The SQR also creates a file with the names of the terminals and their
e-mail addresses,

3. Towards the tail end of the report, a batch file is created and Word is
called,

4. There is an AUTORUN macro within WORD that will be executed,

5. This macro will run to completion only if file from (2) exists,

6. Using the file names and the e-mail addresses, the VB function is called
repeatedly, and

7. When the macro has completed, it has the ability to close down Word and
return control to the SQR.

Like I said, I am not sure if this is of any help to you but if you are
completely stuck, give me a call and I will be happy to discus the above
with you...

Sincerely,
Krishnan

Ruan Transportation Management Systems
(515) 245-5655 [P]
(515) 247-2065 [F]
ksaranga@ruan.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Wainwright [mailto:JasonW@LIMON.CO.ZA]
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 7:31 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS
Subject: Emailing in Scribe


Hi all

We have an NT system going with SQR 4, we use a delphi 2 front to be our
print manager.  We would like to be able to send email and the documentation
we have is sketchy.  Currently Delphi call SQRWT with commandline parms.  So
does anyone know how SQRWT handles email?  Details, anecdotes, sites etc
anything.

TIA