InfoPath Dev

First off, thanks for a great site!! I've been lurking and gleaning info for quite some time.


I an using the included code to make a new Outlook message appear. The reason I am doing it this way instead of with a data connection is because the person completing the form will need to edit the resulting email before it's sent. The Email code works fine for 1 part of the submission process except the attachment name. At a later stage, however, I need to get this email to be sent with no attachment at all.

so the 2 questions are...

1) Is there any way to change the attachment name from "Form1.xml" to something dynamic based on form fields using the code I've included (or some other coding)?

2) Is there any way to get the same new, pre-filled email message to open except with no attachment at all?

thanks in advance,
Craig




Function msoxd_my_editable_OnAfterChange(eventObj)

' If the submit operation is successful, set
' eventObj.ReturnStatus = True

'Opens an email window with prefilled subject line and with form as xml attachment (no HTML version).
On Error Resume Next

Set oTo = XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("//my:myFields/my:StoredValues/my:MailSettings/my:to")
Set oCC = XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("//my:myFields/my:StoredValues/my:MailSettings/my:cc")
Set oBCC = XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("//my:myFields/my:StoredValues/my:MailSettings/my:bcc")
Set oSubject = XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("//my:myFields/my:StoredValues/my:MailSettings/my:subject")
Set oBody = XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("//my:myFields/my:StoredValues/my:MailSettings/my:body")

formTo = oTo.text
formCC = oCC.text
formBCC = oBCC.text
formSubj = oSubject.text
formBody = oBody.text


XDocument.UI.ShowMailItem formTo, formCC, formBCC, formSubj, formBody
eventObj.ReturnStatus = False
Exit Function
End Function

Hi Trunzoc,

Check out this link,

http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3339

Unfortunately, that thread doesn't answer either question.

Any other suggestions?

Hi Trunzoc and welcome to our forum!

To answer your questions:

1. Yes, you can do this. Use the e-mail adapter and AttachmentFileName. Here's an example:
objEmailAdapter.AttachmentFileName = strName + "–" + strDate + ".xml";
BTW: this is documented in the InfoPath 2003 SDK, a great reference if you haven't downloaded it yet.

2. To remove the attachment, just make the above string blank.

Happy Trails!

Hi Patrick, i'm trying to send an excel file as attachment but i'm unable to set "AttachmentFileName" to my file's path. it says it is read only.

i'm using infopath 2007.

 please help. Urgent!!

Only speaking from Infopath 2003 point of view - but you could try just having an attachment field and let the infopath form itself be the attachment and use a normal email data adapter/secondary connection.

 If you need a code solution - in order to set the Outlook mail object's attachment property you may have to create a proper Outlook application object reference. I don't think the default Infopath code model allows you to reference and attach other files using the 'SendMail' function.