Email Form with conditional attachments and text

[Dioxin]

I'm not sure if this is possible, thought I'd post here and pray!

I would like to be able to create a Form with Drop down Menus.

the 1st drop down menu will include Locations, i.e
London
Edinburgh
Manchester

2nd drop down menu would be different Courses, i.e
French
English
Spanish

What I would like the form to achieve;
1. Auto Generate an email
2. Include text in the body of the email thats specific to the choices made
on the drop down menus.
3. Add attachments to the email based on the infomation included in the drop
down menu, i.e email a Map, and perhaps course summary.
4. Do all this with minimal inputs i.e enter email address, click drop down
menu's 1,2,3 etc, then click send

 

[Andrei Smolin [Add-in Express]]

You can use Template Phrases for Outlook at
http://www.ablebits.com/outlook-templates-phrases/index.php. What I would do
is to create 9 templates ( Locations.Count multiplied by Courses.Count) that
would include the AttachFile macro. The WriteSubject macro is provided, too.
This allows me to enter the e-address and click on the template entry in a
form embedded into my mail inspector window. That's easy.

Oh, the add-in allows exporting and importing the templates you create.

Regards from Belarus,

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
www.add-in-express.com
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[Dioxin]

does this mean that I need to include a template for each and every outcome...

so that just say I have 5 Locations and 10 Courses.... I'd need 50 templates?

just seems a bit much. I'd have thought that "IF" statements could achieve
this in a more reduced manner.

 

[Andrei Smolin [Add-in Express]]

so that just say I have 5 Locations and 10 Courses.... I'd need 50
templates?

You can organize them in 5 folders (10 templates per folder) or in 10
folders (5 templates per folder). I think that you can solve the problem in
a far more faster and cheaper way if you use this add-in. Just compare the
time you will spend on entering 50 almost identical texts and the time you
spend on developing the add-in code, debugging it, creating a setup projects
and debugginig it.

If you like the idea of a form embedded into inspector windows, you can use
Add-in Express Extensions (http://www.add-in-express.com/outlook-extension/)
which is part of Add-in Express (.NET, VSTO, and VCL editions).

Regards from Belarus,

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
www.add-in-express.com