How to send fax end emails automatically from a form

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Britt

Hi,

I need a way to make emailing and faxing eaiser, as we do
this alot. The users of the access database application,
have to registrate the fax number and the e-mail address
in the access database anyway, and instead of them writing
this information on a piec of paper for me to send it
manually, I would like to make this automatically.

I know there is a function that makes it easy to send an
email.. However, the attachment to the email will vary
from time to time.. Is there anyway I can add atachments
to the email generated from what they have ticked for in
the form?

The same comes for the fax....

Thanks!
 
Hi,
I can't help you abuot the fax, but if you want to email a
report as an attachment, use the DoCmd.SendObject method
(read the documentation).
HTH, Ayelet
 
Hello, I am facing a similar problem. We have to enter
an order, then generate an approval for the customer. I
plan on trying to used Acrobat writer, that way I can
print the approval to a PDF file and email it. (I have
included "email address" in the customer info so all you
have to do is double click to bring up Outlook with their
address in a blank message). As far as faxing, install a
fax server program that will allow you to fax from the
program. If anyone has any suggestions on ways to
simplify this process...please share.

Thanks
 
Re Faxing:

1.) If you have Windows 2000 or WinXp as the OS, they have built in Fax
programs that you can use by simply making sure the fax service is
installed. If you also have installed Outlook, add the fax service to you
mail profile and then you can use SendObject to send a fax (using the fax
number as [fax: xxx-xxx-xxxx] in the To: option) which will run through
Outlook. It a little clunky, and you're still stuck with RTF formatted
reports if you use SendObject but it does work.

2.) If you have Winfax Pro, (anything other than version 10.02, the most
recent release being 10.03) then it can be automated very easily to send a
fully faithful fax of your report. We have two products on our web that
will make this easy; either our Print Batch Manager for Access, or our
WinFax library.

Re: PDF

If you'd like to automate the output and e-mailing of PDF versions of your
report(s) then check out our PDF and Mail library for Access.
 
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