Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: SendMail.SetHTMLText

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SendMail.SetHTMLText

Sets the HTML text of the new email.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	FileMaker iOS SDK
SendMail	4.3	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

MBS( "SendMail.SetHTMLText"; EmailID; Text ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example

EmailID The email reference number obtained using SendMail.CreateEmail function. $EmailID

Text The HTML text for the email. Will be encoded by the plugin to quoted printable UTF-8. Email::HTMLText

Parameter	Description	Example
EmailID	The email reference number obtained using SendMail.CreateEmail function.	$EmailID
Text	The HTML text for the email. Will be encoded by the plugin to quoted printable UTF-8.	Email::HTMLText

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Sets the HTML text of the new email.
See also SendMail.SetPlainText and SendMail.SetRichText.
If you need to encode text yourself to html, you can use the Text.EncodeToHTML function.
You can read html content from file using the Text.ReplaceNewline function.

You can use Text.MergeFields to replace placeholders with values from variables, fields and expressions.

Examples

Create email and set content:

Set Variable [$EmailID; Value:MBS("SendMail.CreateEmail")]
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("SendMail.SetHTMLText"; $EmailID; $html)]

Sets the text as plain text and as html:

Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("SendMail.SetHTMLText"; $EmailID; "<html><body>" & GetAsCSS(EMail::PlainText) & "</body></html>") ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("SendMail.SetPlainText"; $EmailID; EMail::PlainText) ]

Add inline graphics with placeholder in HTML:

Set Variable [ $EmailID ; Value: MBS("SendMail.CreateEmail") ]
# prepare HTML from field in FileMaker
Set Variable [ $html ; Value: "<html><body>" & GetAsCSS(EMail::PlainText) & "</body></html>" ]
# Replace $$img$$ in text with image.
Set Variable [ $html ; Value: Substitute($html; "$$img$$"; "<img src=\"cid:image1.png\">") ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("SendMail.SetHTMLText"; $EmailID; $html) ]
# now add a container
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("SendMail.AddAttachmentContainer"; $EmailID; EMail::ImageContainer; EMail::ImageName; "image/png"; "image1.png") ]

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Created 3th September 2014, last changed 15th October 2018

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