About the only other suggestion I have would be to set the entire string up in a temp field and pass the temp field value to the notify action of the filter. That way you're only passing a field value (like $Temp Notify Address$) instead of expecting the notify filter to do the work for you.
Ron -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Earl Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:36 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Notify Filters and 'From' address As replied to Ron, it appears not if I use this string I get: sa + " <" + sa + "[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" as the 'from' address in the AR System Email Messages form, it's as if it's treated as a litteral string allowing for variable substiution... Stephen On 18/07/06, craig price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen, > > I think the following should work > > $Group$ + " <" + $Group$ + "[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > > Craig > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Earl > Sent: 17 July 2006 20:10 > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Notify Filters and 'From' address > > All, > > I have some notify filters that appear to have 'changed' how they work > since we patched upto patch 017 on ARS 6.3 > > On my form I have a field called 'Group' and in my filter notify > action I have set the from address to be: > > $Group$ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Normally this should result in the 'from' address looking like: > > sa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > which is a valid 'from' setting, however for some settings of 'Group' > (namely: sa, ci or ei) instead of setting the 'From' field to: group > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it just sets it to: > > sa > > Thus missing the actual email address. There are no error messages as > such apart from when the email engine actually tries to send the > message, then of course it errors as the 'from' is illegal. > > Now this doesn't happen for all groups only a few and I can't see what > would cause it to be different... this worked fine upto patch 011, and > now is broken :( also seems broken in ARS 7.0 patch 001 too :( > > Anyone got any ideas? > > Stephen > > AR Platform: ARS 6.3 patch 017 > OS Platform: Solaris 9 > DB Platform: Oracle 9i on Solaris > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org > ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org
