Script Steps Reference

FILEMAKER SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 154
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Script steps reference (alphabetical list)
Contents
Send Mail
Purpose
Sends an intranet or internet email message (with or without a file attachment) to one or more
recipients. Email can be sent through an email application or via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol, a set of criteria for sending and receiving email).
Format
Send Mail [No dialog; To: <to>; CC: <CC>; BCC: <BCC>;
Subject: <subject>; Message: <message>; “<attachment>”]
Options
• Perform without dialog instructs FileMaker Pro to put the composed email message in the
email application's outbox, ready to be sent. If this option is not selected, the composed
message is left open in the email application so it can be reviewed. In Microsoft Outlook
Express or Microsoft Entourage on the Macintosh operating system, the new message is
left in the Drafts folder.
• Click Specify to display the Send Mail dialog box, where you can set options for your mail.
Choose the method by which to send mail, E-Mail Client or SMTP Server. (If you choose
SMTP Server, the SMTP Options dialog box appears. Then choose to create One email
using data from the current file, or create Multiple emails (one for each record in
found set).
Note If you choose SMTP Server and Multiple emails (one for each record in the found
set) and FileMaker encounters an error while emailing the one of the records, the remaining
records will not be sent.
For each of the following options, you can enter text directly, or click to enter values from
an address book (Windows), field, or calculation.
• (Windows) Select Specify Email Addresses to enter one or more email addresses.
Separate each address with a semicolon or a carriage return character.
• Select Specify Field Name to specify a field that contains one or more email
addresses.
• Select Specify Calculation to specify a calculation that generates one or more email
addresses.
• If you use the Specify Field Name option to specify a value for the To, CC, or BCC
entries, you can also select For each message, collect addresses across found set
to specify that all the values from this field in the current found set be used (to address
a message to multiple recipients).
• To stores the address(es) of the recipient(s).
• CC stores the address(es) of the carbon copy recipient(s).
• BCC stores the address(es) of the blind carbon copy recipient(s)