Imbedded Application parameters

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Folks,

I have an application that sends users notifications of when they have work to do. The note they get refers to a particular item in the database which has a unique identifier. You can open the application at a particular item by passing the item number as a parameter e.g. MyAppName item=123456

However, I cannot work out how to send this link to a user in a note. Outlook gets confused and thinks that the whole line, including the parameter is the application name, and the link fails.

Can you help?
 
It might help if you provided an example of the kind of link you're talking
about.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



DaveWoodward said:
Folks,

I have an application that sends users notifications of when they have
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work to do. The note they get refers to a particular item in the database
which has a unique identifier. You can open the application at a particular
item by passing the item number as a parameter e.g. MyAppName item=123456
However, I cannot work out how to send this link to a user in a note.
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Outlook gets confused and thinks that the whole line, including the
parameter is the application name, and the link fails.
 
Thanks for your reply Sue.

Here is the actual line that we are trying to run:

\\HVTSQL01\BUILD\QUEST\QUEST.EXE InternalCar=65

When you recive this link in a note, you click on it and the Quest.exe application opens, but the parameters are ignored.

Is there an alternative way?
 
In the first place, that's not a valid link in HTML. You'd need to replace
the space before the parameter with %20. But more importantly, I don't think
you can pass parameters to a file in an <a href=whatever> link in the first
place.

Also note: The newsgroup interface you are using apparently does not quote
earlier messages in the thread, making your latest message so short on
detail that you risk not getting the answer you're looking for. Please take
the time to quote the original message.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Dave Woodward said:
Thanks for your reply Sue.

Here is the actual line that we are trying to run:

\\HVTSQL01\BUILD\QUEST\QUEST.EXE InternalCar=65

When you recive this link in a note, you click on it and the Quest.exe
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application opens, but the parameters are ignored.
 
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