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emailing a pdf with Outlook 2007

rbuserrbuser
edited September 2007 in General
Has anyone else had used Outlook 2007 to email a pdf report? It doesn't work
here and it crashes Outlook. I only have Office 2007 installed on one
computer (not my development one), so it's possible there's something else
going on, but before I install Office 2007 anywhere else, I thought I'd ask.
Thanks.

Comments

  • nicociziknicocizik
    edited September 2007
    Hi Sue,

    Which version of ReportBuilder and Delphi are you using? Also, which
    version of Windows are you running? Are you using the built-in email
    feature included with RB? If so, which email plugin are you using to send
    the reports with Outlook? Do you see this behavior every time you try to
    send an email with RB? Are you able to successfully run the Email demo
    located in the \RBuilder\Demos\1. Reports\... directory? In my quick
    testing with Outlook 2007 and the demo, I was able to get it to successfully
    send using the MAPI plugin.

    --
    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • rbuserrbuser
    edited September 2007
    I'm using BDS 2006 with RB 10.06 on Windows XP. I am using the built-in
    email feature of RB, and the built-in PDF writing as well, and I was very
    impressed with how well they worked with so little effort on my part! I must
    be using the default MAPI plugin, as I haven't changed it. So far Outlook
    2007 has crashed every time I've tried to send email with a reportbuilder
    report. The demo does the same thing.

    Or rather, it did the first time I ran it. I think I must be experiencing
    the "expert phenomenon" now - you know, where as soon as you get an expert
    involved, everything starts to work. ;-) I ran the demo a second time to see
    if the program crashed too (that was happening yesterday) and it worked! And
    now my own program is working too. I haven't changed a thing since
    yesterday, so go figure. I did get a popup question from the Windows
    firewall just now, so maybe that's what was broken yesterday. And a reboot
    overnight didn't hurt either. Anyway, thanks. :-)

  • rbuserrbuser
    edited September 2007
    Well, I guess I have to retract the All is Well. Sigh. I've discovered that
    if I try to email a report with Outlook 2007 loaded, Outlook closes without
    emailing. But if I start with Outlook not open, it works just fine. I don't
    know if or when we'll be widely deploying Outlook 2007, so this is working
    well enough for now.

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