Jan: I have one application with this ability. The structure was started by another programmer, so I don't take full credit. It isn't perfect, as we added features over the years and would've done it differently if I had designed it today.
Here's the structure of the table (not all the columns), along with a description of what some of the columns are for. We have a scheduled task that runs every 20 minutes, scans the table for "xDateTimeSent is null". Cursors thru the rows, sends out using RMail, updates the xDateTimeSent. The program that deciphers all the elements is quite complicated. It was originally set up to send emails to "groups" (ReptGroup). There's a maintenance table that has a group name and a list of email addresses. So different programs will send emails to different "groups" of people (a group could have just one person). Later on, we needed the ability for users to send emails to specific people, not a group, so we created an AlertDetail table that has the to / from / cc information. It works really well for us. Table: Alert CmdFile Type : TEXT 50 This is the name of the RBase program that created the email ReptGroup Type : TEXT 8 The group the email is sent to; lookup to another table for email addresses xDateTime Type : DATETIME NOT NULL When the email was inserted xDateTimeSent Type : DATETIME When the email was sent by RMail AlertSubject Type : NOTEAlertFailed Type : DATETIME If RMail failed, date put here EmailTypeID Type : INTEGER Default: 1 1 = look at ReptGroup, 2 = look at AlertDetail table for email address AlertEmailType Type : TEXT 4 Default: TEXT This was added when we started using HTML as the body on some emails. Would have the word "HTML" AlertFileAttach Type : TEXT 120 Name of a file to attach AlertNote Type : NOTE If the email body is just a string text, it goes in here AlertTxtFile Type : TEXT 120 Or the email body can be contained in an external file, either ascii or html. So this would be the filename, like F:\EmailFiles\Orders.txt Hope this gives you some ideas!! Karen -----Original Message----- From: jan johansen <j...@jjcalibrations.com> To: rbase-l@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, May 4, 2022 10:03 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - eMail table structure Greetings, Was just wondering if anyone had a successful table structure to store emails to send, etcthat would be willing to share. TIA, Jan-- For group guidelines, visit http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbase-l/WC20220504150311.87010F%40jjcalibrations.com. -- For group guidelines, visit http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbase-l/1649618192.3458901.1651683163487%40mail.yahoo.com.
