Formatting variable output in an email... 1

[marvelisticme]

Hi, all

I have an asp that sends email notices to various employees upon submit and I have a request for some of the text in the email body to be bolded so that it is easier to spot. Is there a way to do this? I didn't create these pages and am not versed in this type of programming, but have been given the task of maintaining the pages Thanks for any help!


Mail.AddAddress "anybody@anywhere.com"
Mail.Subject = "W2 Copy Request recieved from " &strUsername

'<!--- Begin Ludicrously Huge Message Body --->
Mail.Body = "W2 Copy Request received from: " &strUsername & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Employee Name: " &strEmployee & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "SSN: " &strSSN & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Comments: " &strComments & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Company: " &strCompany & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "----W-2 Copy Request----" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "W-2 Year" &strW2_year & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Delivery Options: " &strW2_options & VbCrLf & VbCrLf & "Address: " &strW2_street & vbCrLf & "City: " &strW2_city & vbCrlf & "State: " &strw2_state & vbCrLf & "Zip: " &strW2_zip & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
Mail.Send

If (MM_editRedirectUrl <> "") Then
Response.Redirect(MM_editRedirectUrl)

 

[FesterSXS]

There should be more relevant code above this including a line like: Set Mail = Server.CreateObject("something here")

Can you post that too please.


In a nutshell, if the email is currently built as a text email then you can't bold bots. To do that you need to change the type of the email to HTML for example.

Post the code I mentioned and it will help us show you how to do that.

Tony
[blue]________________________________________[/blue]

http://www.SpiraxSarco.com/

 

[marvelisticme]

Sorry! Shows how much I know, huh? ;-)

'<!--- Begin Mail Creation --->
Set Mail = Server.CreateObject("Persits.Mailsender")
Mail.Host = strHost
Mail.From = "Global User"
Mail.FromName = strUsername
Mail.AddAddress "test1@test11.com"
Mail.Subject = "W2 Copy Request recieved from " &strUsername

'<!--- Begin Ludicrously Huge Message Body --->
Mail.Body = "W2 Copy Request received from: " &strUsername & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Employee Name: " &strEmployee & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "SSN: " &strSSN & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Comments: " &strComments & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Company: " &strCompany & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "----W-2 Copy Request----" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "W-2 Year" &strW2_year & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Delivery Options: " &strW2_options & VbCrLf & VbCrLf & "Address: " &strW2_street & vbCrLf & "City: " &strW2_city & vbCrlf & "State: " &strw2_state & vbCrLf & "Zip: " &strW2_zip & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
Mail.Send

If (MM_editRedirectUrl <> "") Then
Response.Redirect(MM_editRedirectUrl)
End If
End If

 

[marvelisticme]

I did know that some types of email don't support text formatting, but I couldn't figure out how to tell what this particular code was capable of.

Thanks so much for any help!

 

[FesterSXS]

This FAQ will point you in the right direction - faq333-2962

Tony
[blue]________________________________________[/blue]

http://www.SpiraxSarco.com/

 

[marvelisticme]

I may very well be misunderstanding the FAQ, but it appears that it only explains how to format typed text within quotes. Is there a way to format the output of variables, which are not between quotes? This is VBscript stuff.

Thanks!

 

[Sheco]

What the heck is the output of variables?

Just concat your formatting codes into the text of the message.

For example if you were using HTML then somethng like this:
myString = "Company:<b>" & strCompany & "</b>" & vbCrLf

 

[marvelisticme]

That's what I thought, but I'm getting a VBScript error and the page cannot be displayed...

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript compilation (0x800A03EA)
Syntax error
/gis/w2.asp, line 146, column 100

Line 146 is...
Mail.Body = "W2 Copy Request received from: " &strUsername & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Employee Name: "<b> &strEmployee </b>& vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "SSN: " &strSSN & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Comments: " &strComments & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Company: " &strCompany & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "----W-2 Copy Request----" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "W-2 Year" &strW2_year & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Delivery Options: " &strW2_options & VbCrLf & VbCrLf & "Address: " &strW2_street & vbCrLf & "City: " &strW2_city & vbCrlf & "State: " &strw2_state & vbCrLf & "Zip: " &strW2_zip & vbCrLf & vbCrLf

From what I can determine, the html formatting can only be used between quotes. I'm hoping I'm wrong. I tried having <html><body></body></html> around the text, but this gives the same error :-/

 

[ethorn10]

Ok, put the <html><body></body></html> back around it and use <br> instead of vbCrLf. Also before you send, put this line in:

Mail.IsHTML = True

So your body could look like:

Mail.Body = "<html><body>W2 Copy Request received from: " & strUsername & "<br><br>Employee Name:<b>" &strEmployee & "</b><br><br>SSN: " &strSSN & "<br><br>Comments: " & strComments & "<br><br>Company: " & strCompany & "<br><br>"----W-2 Copy Request----<br><br>W-2 Year" & strW2_year & " <br><br>Delivery Options: " & strW2_options & " <br><br>Address: " & strW2_street & " <br><br>City: " & strW2_city & " <br><br>State: " & strw2_state & " <br><br>Zip: " & strW2_zip & " <br><br></body></html>
Mail.IsHTML = True

 

[ethorn10]

whooops ... remove the double quotes before the ----W-2. It shouldn't be there.

 

[marvelisticme]

Ok, done, but got the following error...

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript compilation (0x800A0409)
Unterminated string constant
/gis/w2.asp, line 146, column 494

Should the quotes at the beginning be after <body>, and/or should there be quotes at the end of the string?

Thanks you so much for taking the time to help me!!!

 

[ethorn10]

That's it...missed the quotes at the end of the string. My bad man. Add those and you should be fine.

 

[marvelisticme]

You are my hero Thank you so much!!!!

 

[ethorn10]

Haha...no problem. Glad it worked out for you.