I’m working on a project where I need to send HTML emails with Outlook on Windows. I have an “Email Templates” table that contains a text area that is set to be “multi-style” to hold the email templates. The user can add fields from various tables to a template and do styled text to create the body of the email.
They can then select a group of records, select an Email Template and it will send that email to the people in the selected records, personalizing each email based on fields in the selected records. You know… basic “mail merge” type stuff be instead of printing letter to paper I’m generating emails. I’ve got this all working and am happy with the results so far. But I’ve got one area I still need to implement. Including images in the email body. 4D documentation states that Styled Text supports 3 types of dynamic tags: 4D Expression URL Custom Tags Adding a 4D Expression to styled text is easy with “ST INSERT EXPRESSION”. Adding a URL is easy with “ST INSERT URL”. But how do I insert a “custom tag”? The documentation specifically states you can use a custom tag to reference an image: "You can now insert any tag in plain text, for example <img src="http://doc.4d.com/pictures/ja.png";>. It is stored in the code of the plain text without being interpreted or displayed. This is particularly useful in the context of e-mails in HTML format and including pictures for example." http://doc.4d.com/4Dv14/4D/14.4/Supported-tags.300-2510895.en.html <http://doc.4d.com/4Dv14/4D/14.4/Supported-tags.300-2510895.en.html> But it does not give an example of how to insert this tag. I’ve tried several ways of doing this and it always ends up just showing the image link text instead of the actual image. What’s the magic for adding an <img> tag to a multi-styled text area so that when the text is put into the body of an Outlook email it will display the actual image? Tim ***************************************** Tim Nevels Innovative Solutions 785-749-3444 timnev...@mac.com ***************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
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