e-mail from web page versus physical folder

[Igno Ramus]

I added a web page with links to word documents. When I
open the documents via the web browser and fill out the
form, the options I have for e-mailing are: send page by e-
mail, link by e-mail, and shortcut to desktop. this is
fine, but when I choose any one of these options, the data
that I filled in does not come along. I get a blank
form. When I provide hyperlinks to word documents, I can
fill them out online, and the data entered can be e-mailed
to a recipient.
Does anyone know why this is? I would prefer linking to
word documents versus hyperlinks.
thanks for any help.

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

In the disk drive versus Internet world, there are a variety of security
concerns that you end up dealing with.While MS has tried to blend the worlds
so everything is seemless, we are not quite there when it comes to Office
docs.

While not exactly the same, your issue is one of the things Microsoft is
trying to solve with Office 2003. The entire InfoPath (or XDocs?) solution
is being able to pull up files from a website, or emailing forms, and have
the user fill them out and send them back. Rather neat solution.
Unfortunately, knowing the future does not help the immediate problem.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
Author: ADO.NET and XML: ASP.NET on the Edge

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[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

I added a web page with links to word documents. When I
open the documents via the web browser and fill out the
form, the options I have for e-mailing are: send page by
e-mail, link by e-mail, and shortcut to desktop. this is
fine, but when I choose any one of these options, the
data that I filled in does not come along. I get a blank
form. When I provide hyperlinks to word documents, I can
fill them out online, and the data entered can be
e-mailed to a recipient.
Does anyone know why this is? I would prefer linking to
word documents versus hyperlinks.

I'm not entirely sure how you're tyring to send this mail,
but if the visitor's are downloading the Word document and
then you're trying to mail it from the server, that won't
work. This is because the version on the server never gets
updated.

Your options are:
1. Send the message directly from Word. That is, directly
from the user's PC, rather than through the server.
2. Get the users to save the Word document, go to a
different Web page, and do an upload.
3. Change yoiur process to use an HTML form rather than
an MS Word form.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
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