E-Mail PDF Attachment

[Bill Eyring]

Hello All,   I am having a problem in creating a pdf attachment for e-mail when there are multiple records involved in the report. We use Outlook for e-mail. There is no problem as far as e-mailing single record reports, everything works as it should with the named pdf file automatically attaching to the e-mail.   Here is the situation:   I search a table using menu driven criteria to determine which records I want include in a pdf report to e-mail to a contact,  my search selecting the records I want.   Through menu choices, the user must select the Acrobat PDFWriter as the default printer in order to produce the e-mail attachment. Setting the directory destination for the Pdf report is also not a problem.   The problem arises when the user has to name the destination file.   In my example here, there are 7 records that match my search criteria and therefore will produce a 7 page report .   Here are the id numbers of the records selected; 2662,4048,4129,4212,5389,6052 and 7923. PdfWriter prompts the user for a file name. Lets say the name of the file is CarWash. The file CARWASH.PDF is created.   My launch command would be:   launch .vmailto   The text variable vmailto = MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]? Subject=Your comp request from Bill Eyring, Michael Haberman Associates, Inc.&"C:\NewComm\CARWASH.PDF"   This would launch perfectly if I could get the file name from pdfwriter into my command.   I know I can prompt the user for a file name, but I don't want the user to be asked twice for a file name, once by my program and once by Acrobat PDFWriter. I do not want to get involved in changing the registry settings for Acrobat, since I would have a whole network of 20 machines to change.   What I would like to do is just get the inputted file name value from Acrobat PdfWriter and insert it into my program.   I am using the latest release of Rbase for Windows and runs on Windows 2000 Professional computers and a Windows 2000 server.   Does anyone have a suggestion ? Your help is greatly appreciated.   Bill Eyring Director of Information Systems Michael Haberman Associates, Inc. 125 Front Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 516-739-8080 Rbase Developer