How do you produce your HTML/PDF documents

[Richard Kreiss]

I am using the pdf output option for  clients. 

I have an option which allows the user to select print or pdf file option. 

They have Printwizard on their system which converts filePro output to pdf and the deletes the .txt file created. They want me to setup emailing the document created to a specific person. The email address is in the person’s record. 

Richard kreiss
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Richard
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> On Aug 17, 2020, at 5:39 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/17/20 5:24 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>> HTML and CSS, native open/writeline/close.  As complex as necessary.
>> Actually, OneGate has merge functionality now, so I only need to write
>> out a merge file.
> A while back I wrote a filePro routine that one could call to scan
> through a given document, search for macros (that is what I called
> it) such as &fp###; or &fpaa; $fpwx; and the routine will replace
> the referenced macro with the value of the field (###) or the dummy
> variable (aa, wx ...).
> 
> This came out of the need to produce receipt confirmation, work
> orders and the likes and send them via email (this goes back early 2K).
> 
> I used arrays such as fields(999):1 and dummies(626):aa to reference
> source fields.
> 
> What made this approach very flexible was the ability to produce any form,
> in any design and push it to the application without any changes to the
> filePro code.  Those days use of WYSIWYG editors were very popular and so,
> I took full advantage of it.
> 
> I do not recall if I defined the dummy array as global so that I could use the
> routine as a "call" or "chain" ... I tell you one thing, it was pretty slick and
> surprisingly simple and reliable solution to what, back then, seem like a big
> deal.
> 
> So, if you had something like:
> 
> <td>Name</td><td>&fp120;</td>
> 
> &fp120; would had been replaced with whatever value field 120 held.
> 
> Is your OneGate merge similar to this?
> 
> 
> 
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