http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Help with Macro expression with %ATTACH= string of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:15:35 +0300 Help with Macro expression with %ATTACH= string How to insert another Macro in an expression in forum The Bat! - Templates and Macros.

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I'd suggest something like this:

%Attach="C:\test\%ToFName%-_54.txt"
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Thank you very much, not only for the solution but as I learned something new about TB

Igor
13 August 2011 11:15:35, Igor Tavella.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum6/topic10186/message33921/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum6/topic10186/message33921/ Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:15:35 +0300 The Bat! - Templates and Macros Help with Macro expression with %ATTACH= string How to insert another Macro in an expression in forum The Bat! - Templates and Macros.
That's because TB doesn't know that the macro ends at the underscore, so it considers ToFName_54 as the full macro and that macro doesn't exist and therefore it gives an emnpty string.
I'd suggest something like this:
%Attach="C:\test\%ToFName%-_54.txt"
The %- macro is intended to ignore line breaks in your templates, but it can be 'abused' to signal the end of a macro in cases like this.
12 August 2011 20:10:29, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum6/topic10186/message33919/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum6/topic10186/message33919/ Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:10:29 +0300 The Bat! - Templates and Macros Help with Macro expression with %ATTACH= string How to insert another Macro in an expression in forum The Bat! - Templates and Macros.

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Roelof Otten wrote:
That should work, as I had no .pdf available, I tried it with this macro:

%ATTACH="C:\Test\%TOFNAME.txt"

and that worked as intended.
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Sorry I wasn't clear enough in my post above. Yes the string works correctly
like that ... but what the filename (PDF or other) is composed by another text
like:

FileName_number.pdf
So the string should look like

%ATTACH="C:\Test\%TOFNAME_54.txt"

In this case I get an error like that:

Couldn't find the file G:\..... .\.pdf

Note that the result of %TOFNAME_54 is missing

Igor
12 August 2011 19:55:01, Igor Tavella.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum6/topic10186/message33918/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum6/topic10186/message33918/ Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:55:01 +0300 The Bat! - Templates and Macros Help with Macro expression with %ATTACH= string How to insert another Macro in an expression in forum The Bat! - Templates and Macros.
That should work, as I had no .pdf available, I tried it with this macro:
%ATTACH="C:\Test\%TOFNAME.txt"
and that worked as intended.
So the question that remains is how (or when) do you execute the macro?
I placed it in a reply template, that means that the addressee is known before the macro is executed.
However, when you execute the macro before the addressee is known, you won't get the proper file name.

When the file can't be found, you get an error message, what message do you get?
12 August 2011 19:35:30, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum6/topic10186/message33917/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum6/topic10186/message33917/ Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:35:30 +0300 The Bat! - Templates and Macros Help with Macro expression with %ATTACH= string How to insert another Macro in an expression in forum The Bat! - Templates and Macros.
I looked around the forum for about 1 hour but I wasn't able to find a solution.

What I want to do is something like that:

%ATTACH="C:\Documents\... .\%TOFNAME.pdf"

Before and at the end of %TOFNAME I inserted every kind of characters ("" %)
but it didn't work.

Anyone can help
Thanks
Igor
12 August 2011 18:34:05, Igor Tavella.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum6/topic10186/message33916/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum6/topic10186/message33916/ Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:34:05 +0300 The Bat! - Templates and Macros