Mail Hyperlinks to files with Outlook 2007

The powers that be make me work in a place where some people don't have
Filemaker and everybody uses Outlook 2007.

I want my FMP 10 to send an e-mail to people working in the same place,
thus accessing the same file system, and say "please have a look at this
file" without sending the file itself as attachment (since this results
in numerous file duplications)

Outlook provides a feature called hyperlink which works in rich text
format only - we use the attachment feature to paste a clickable path to
the desired file in the mail body.

If I use the send mail script step in Filemaker 10, I can re-create this
path by

- using readastext ( container field with reference) to extract the path
- strip the result from the first value, eliminate the "Filewin:/" and
replace all the "/" with "\"

The string in the mail body now looks exactly as it does if I insert the
path using the Outlook feature. However, Outlook doesn't treat it as
clickable

Part of the problem ist that the Mail is in plain text format, but
there's no change if I switch it to rich text format.

Any ideas?
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In article , clk.TakeThisOut@tele2.ch (Christoph
Kaufmann) wrote:
>
> The powers that be make me work in a place where some people don't have
> Filemaker and everybody uses Outlook 2007.
>
> I want my FMP 10 to send an e-mail to people working in the same place,
> thus accessing the same file system, and say "please have a look at this
> file" without sending the file itself as attachment (since this results
> in numerous file duplications)
>
> Outlook provides a feature called hyperlink which works in rich text
> format only - we use the attachment feature to paste a clickable path to
> the desired file in the mail body.
>
> If I use the send mail script step in Filemaker 10, I can re-create this
> path by
>
> - using readastext ( container field with reference) to extract the path
> - strip the result from the first value, eliminate the "Filewin:/" and
> replace all the "/" with "\"
>
> The string in the mail body now looks exactly as it does if I insert the
> path using the Outlook feature. However, Outlook doesn't treat it as
> clickable
>
> Part of the problem ist that the Mail is in plain text format, but
> there's no change if I switch it to rich text format.
>
> Any ideas?

Nobody seems to be answering this one so ...

Are you sending the email from FileMaker Pro directly or sending it via Outlook?

I don't know about FileMaker 10, but in older versions FileMaker only
created plain text emails. To get a "fancy" email you had to do some
background playing to get FileMaker to create the HTML code and then
basically copy-pasting that across to the email application - in your case
that would mean you would need to create the appropriate HTML code for the
link and then transfer that to Outlook rather than use FileMaker's
in-built Send Mail command.

When you insert the path in Outlook, it's Outlook that automatically
creates the HTML code for the link behind the scenes.

When creating the HTML code for the link, it will need some sort of prefix
to signify it's a file link, but I'm not sure what that would be (e.g.
website links need "http://", email links need "mailto://", FTP links need
"ftp://", etc.). Simply putting "mydirectory\myfile.doc" in the email code
won't create an actual link.

Helpful Harry )