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[WD23] How to make links in emails functional? [Solved]
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[WD23] How to make links in emails functional? [Solved] September 21, 2020 02:18PM |
Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 121 |
Hi all,
I haven't been able to "connect the dots" so that I could make the links (for instance to email addresses and web sites) in incoming emails functional. So I would like know how it is done in WD. What's the trick?
Best regards
Ola
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/2020 03:19PM by Ola.
I haven't been able to "connect the dots" so that I could make the links (for instance to email addresses and web sites) in incoming emails functional. So I would like know how it is done in WD. What's the trick?
Best regards
Ola
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/2020 03:19PM by Ola.
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Re: [WD23] How to make links in emails functional? September 28, 2020 02:58PM |
Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 121 |
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Argus
Re: [WD23] How to make links in emails functional? September 28, 2020 04:31PM |
depends:
- if email is html, then it's just a question of coding the appropriate html link and any html web site will give you the syntax
- if email is text, then the only thing you can do is to make sure that the syntax is correct (http://xxxx and not just the xxx by example). At this point, it is up to the email client to make the link active or not... For security reason, some will not.
- if email is html, then it's just a question of coding the appropriate html link and any html web site will give you the syntax
- if email is text, then the only thing you can do is to make sure that the syntax is correct (http://xxxx and not just the xxx by example). At this point, it is up to the email client to make the link active or not... For security reason, some will not.
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Re: [WD23] How to make links in emails functional? September 28, 2020 08:51PM |
Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 121 |
Hi Argus,
Thank you for the answer.
I understand your answer is for preparing an outgoing email. But that is not the problem.
I am wondering how I could activate the links in the incoming emails, imported by my own email client, based on the Windev email variable. There often are properly coded links, but they do not work as links.
Best regards
Ola
Thank you for the answer.
I understand your answer is for preparing an outgoing email. But that is not the problem.
I am wondering how I could activate the links in the incoming emails, imported by my own email client, based on the Windev email variable. There often are properly coded links, but they do not work as links.
Best regards
Ola
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Argus
Re: [WD23] How to make links in emails functional? September 29, 2020 02:54PM |
Haaaaa....
AFAIK, there is no automatic system for that, but that does not mean it's impossible...
You can code it yourself the following way:
1. analyse the message to find the links (based on the syntax in html or plaintext (https:// or mailto:... or...)
2. once you have the links, display them differently (active) using the usual gxxx functions (or outside of the text as a list of available links, color coded for possible danger, etc)
3. if your links are in a list, it's easy to do something when selected, if they are inside the text, you need to detect double clicks on your field, find WHERE the click occurs to identify the link, then do the necessary code to use it
AFAIK, there is no automatic system for that, but that does not mean it's impossible...
You can code it yourself the following way:
1. analyse the message to find the links (based on the syntax in html or plaintext (https:// or mailto:... or...)
2. once you have the links, display them differently (active) using the usual gxxx functions (or outside of the text as a list of available links, color coded for possible danger, etc)
3. if your links are in a list, it's easy to do something when selected, if they are inside the text, you need to detect double clicks on your field, find WHERE the click occurs to identify the link, then do the necessary code to use it
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Re: [WD23] How to make links in emails functional? September 29, 2020 06:12PM |
Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 121 |
Hi Argus,
Thanks again. So it seems there is no easy way to do this in Windev. Maybe I'll just accept, for the time being, the fact, that for "safety purposes" the links are not operational. If a user really wants to use the links in an email, he can always turn the plain text display on, copy the link address and enter it manually in a browser.
But it would be nice to have such a property in an html control, to be able to turn the activity of the links on/off.
Best regards
Ola
Thanks again. So it seems there is no easy way to do this in Windev. Maybe I'll just accept, for the time being, the fact, that for "safety purposes" the links are not operational. If a user really wants to use the links in an email, he can always turn the plain text display on, copy the link address and enter it manually in a browser.
But it would be nice to have such a property in an html control, to be able to turn the activity of the links on/off.
Best regards
Ola
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Re: [WD23] How to make links in emails functional? October 11, 2020 03:18PM |
Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 121 |
Hi again!
I was again wrestling with the HTML field of my email reading window.
The window has the plain text and html text fields are on plane #1, on top of each other, attachments are in a table on plane #2, free notes are on plane #3. The text fields can be interchanged with a button (visible,active/invisible,inactive). HTML is the default, if there is data. In this setup the links in the HTML text field did not work; they were highlighted or underlined, but they did not work.
Now I added another HTML field on plane #4 in the email reading window. And lo and behold: all the links in the new field were active and fully operational!
Then I deleted the original HTML control from plane #1 and changed the new field's plane to #1. Guess what: now the links don't work any more!
So, obviously the culprit was not in the original HTML control, it was in the plane #1! The window is defective! I have to rebuild it.
This is not the first time a window has turned out to be defective; it has happened a few times with my WD23. These are very time consuming bugs, not only to fix, but most of all, to find. Especially in this case, as I thought that the links are not supposed to work at all! Certainly slows the development speed down to below 10 times faster...
Best regards
Ola
I was again wrestling with the HTML field of my email reading window.
The window has the plain text and html text fields are on plane #1, on top of each other, attachments are in a table on plane #2, free notes are on plane #3. The text fields can be interchanged with a button (visible,active/invisible,inactive). HTML is the default, if there is data. In this setup the links in the HTML text field did not work; they were highlighted or underlined, but they did not work.
Now I added another HTML field on plane #4 in the email reading window. And lo and behold: all the links in the new field were active and fully operational!
Then I deleted the original HTML control from plane #1 and changed the new field's plane to #1. Guess what: now the links don't work any more!
So, obviously the culprit was not in the original HTML control, it was in the plane #1! The window is defective! I have to rebuild it.
This is not the first time a window has turned out to be defective; it has happened a few times with my WD23. These are very time consuming bugs, not only to fix, but most of all, to find. Especially in this case, as I thought that the links are not supposed to work at all! Certainly slows the development speed down to below 10 times faster...
Best regards
Ola