Send Form Data As Outlook File

[son]

Sending form data to a specified email address: is it possible to send as attachment.that can be integrated with Outlook? I know how to send spreadsheets, but have not done Outlook yet.Son

[Skemcin]

Unless you are developing something for a very, very specific audience (like people at work) I would question why Outlook is in your requirements. If you want to send an e-mail with an attachment, there are plenty of ways to accomplish that. Making sure your attachment behaves a certain way on the client (recipient) side is typically expecting too much or at the very least making it absolutely necessary for the end user to meet a minimum system requirement. Again, nothing wrong with that, but understanding a little more about what you specifically want to accomplish will help.Having said that, if you need help getting the email sent with an attachment, then you'll need a server side scripting language like asp,php,.net, coldfusion, or ruby (on rails). You might, alternately, simply provide a link to the file and avoid wasting bandwidth by attaching it.If you need help making sure that the attachment is opened and read inside the MS Outlook mail client, then you'll have to investigate what MIME types MS Outlook as the ability to read. Then, you'll need to make sure whoever uses these pages not only has MS Outlook but they also have the appropriate software configuration (MIME type definitions and plug-ins) for them to experience what you intend them to.Hope that helps.

[son]

Unless you are developing something for a very, very specific audience (like people at work) I would question why Outlook is in your requirements. If you want to send an e-mail with an attachment, there are plenty of ways to accomplish that. Making sure your attachment behaves a certain way on the client (recipient) side is typically expecting too much or at the very least making it absolutely necessary for the end user to meet a minimum system requirement. Again, nothing wrong with that, but understanding a little more about what you specifically want to accomplish will help.Having said that, if you need help getting the email sent with an attachment, then you'll need a server side scripting language like asp,php,.net, coldfusion, or ruby (on rails). You might, alternately, simply provide a link to the file and avoid wasting bandwidth by attaching it.If you need help making sure that the attachment is opened and read inside the MS Outlook mail client, then you'll have to investigate what MIME types MS Outlook as the ability to read. Then, you'll need to make sure whoever uses these pages not only has MS Outlook but they also have the appropriate software configuration (MIME type definitions and plug-ins) for them to experience what you intend them to.Hope that helps.

Skemcin,Many thanks for your help. I have sent attachments (always use PHP) as spreadsheets. Just for this project they would like to import easily into Outlook...Son