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bubberz
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
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 Posted - 2007-02-14 : 12:22:56
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| I have a button click and what I need to do is too things:1. Send an email to the value of what was selected from a required dropdown list of people2. Then send the user to another page.I wanted to do both of these in the code behind, and it's been decided the application owner (person who's funding the application) would like to use the client's email application (ie. Eudora, Outlook, etc.) when sending this email.I'm not sure how to replicate the href='mailto:person@person.com' that's possible with the anchor tag. |
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
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Posted - 2007-02-14 : 12:43:27
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this is kind of interesting.i think you should use javascript's location.href on pageload on the postback.that's the only way i can think that this would even remotely work...Go with the flow & have fun! Else fight the flow  blog thingie: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp |
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jsmith8858
Dr. Cross Join
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Posted - 2007-02-14 : 13:04:25
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| you need to do this server side, unless you are not explaining step #1 clearly or I am misunderstanding.You cannot actually send an email using a webpage at the client (I hope!!!) --it would be a huge security hole if that was allowed! All you can do is provide a link that will open up a new message in their email client, if they have one, using a mailto: link. There would be now way to automatically actually compose and *send* the email. thank goodness for that. Also, of course, many users don't have email client configured properly to do this anyway, so what happens then?- Jeffhttp://weblogs.sqlteam.com/JeffS |
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jhermiz
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Posted - 2007-02-15 : 10:05:51
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Originally posted by jsmith8858
you need to do this server side, unless you are not explaining step #1 clearly or I am misunderstanding.You cannot actually send an email using a webpage at the client (I hope!!!) --it would be a huge security hole if that was allowed! All you can do is provide a link that will open up a new message in their email client, if they have one, using a mailto: link. There would be now way to automatically actually compose and *send* the email. thank goodness for that. Also, of course, many users don't have email client configured properly to do this anyway, so what happens then?- Jeffhttp://weblogs.sqlteam.com/JeffS
You can still do this using activex. The client must accept a certificate to proceed however. For instance, I was able to actually write a web application that uses outlook to send outlook tasks.
Keeping the web experience alive -- [url]http://www.web-impulse.com[/url]RS Blog -- [url]http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jhermiz[/url] |
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jhermiz
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Posted - 2007-02-15 : 10:07:06
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Originally posted by jhermiz
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Originally posted by jsmith8858
you need to do this server side, unless you are not explaining step #1 clearly or I am misunderstanding.You cannot actually send an email using a webpage at the client (I hope!!!) --it would be a huge security hole if that was allowed! All you can do is provide a link that will open up a new message in their email client, if they have one, using a mailto: link. There would be now way to automatically actually compose and *send* the email. thank goodness for that. Also, of course, many users don't have email client configured properly to do this anyway, so what happens then?- Jeffhttp://weblogs.sqlteam.com/JeffS
You can still do this using activex. The client must accept a certificate to proceed however. For instance, I was able to actually write a web application that uses outlook to send outlook tasks.
Keeping the web experience alive -- [url]http://www.web-impulse.com[/url]RS Blog -- [url]http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jhermiz[/url]
Just an addition when the action occurs, such as sending an email or task, outlook informs you that "another application is trying to send mail on your behalf, accept or deny". So there still needs to be some action on the client side to perform this operation. Its all ActiveX though.
Keeping the web experience alive -- [url]http://www.web-impulse.com[/url]RS Blog -- [url]http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jhermiz[/url] |
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jsmith8858
Dr. Cross Join
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Posted - 2007-02-15 : 11:07:33
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| Yes, that is correct, if the user will install activeX controls locally on their machine and accept all the security warnings and such, then indeed you can do whatever you want on the client machine.- Jeffhttp://weblogs.sqlteam.com/JeffS |
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bubberz
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
289 Posts |
Posted - 2007-02-25 : 23:43:42
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| Thanks to all who replied!What we ended up doing was when the user clicked close, and they were taken to the next page, I gave them an option to send the email. Very likely the email can be avoided, so it was decided to give the end user the option to send or not.Thanks! |
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jsmith8858
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