How To....Show Email Errors

rbuser

Hi

We are using the Report Builder inbuilt email functions, using the email
button on the default Preview screen.

The email client is Outlook 2003 which is open in the task bar.

When a customer selects the email button the report goes white and nothing
else happens, no send email dialogue etc.

I presume there is an error somewhere in the generation process, looking on
rbWiki there is an example on how to Show Email Errors but this refers to a
custom button, not the in built email function.

Can you please advise how to set the report so that the errors can be shown
when using your default email functionality?

As a thought, I have seen Outlook 2003 display a message requesting access
for x minutes. Could this message be hidden/surpressed somewhere?

By the way, the rbWiki example download 'ShowEmailErrors.zip' just comes up
with cannot find the page.

Regards to all

Philip L Jackson

nicocizik

Hi Philip,

1. There is a patch for RB 11.06 that fixes the issue with the report going
white when selecting the email button. Send an email to
support@digital-metaphors.com requesting the patch.

2. Take a look at the following article on troubleshooting emails not being
sent by Outlook.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/Output/Email/Troubleshooting..._Cannot_Preview_Email

3. The built-in MAPI plugin (the default) uses the Simple MAPI interface
included with Delphi. This does not allow the suppression of the Outlook
warning message when accessing it from an outside application. Extended
MAPI does allow this. Recently we included a plugin for the Easy MAPI
product which supports Extended MAPI.

http://www.rapware.com

4. I fixed the link to the RBWiki article. Thanks for pointing this out.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Hi

"Recently we included a plugin for the Easy MAPI product which supports
Extended MAPI"

Can you give me a clue as to how to implement this, I already use Easy MAPI
for other applications.

Thanks

Philip L Jackson

nicocizik

Hi Philip,

The email plugins get registered as they are added to the uses clause of
your application. Simply adding ppSMTPEasyMAPI to your uses clause should
register the Easy MAPI plugin and use its libraries rather than native MAPI.

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Regards,

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