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Old February 11th, 2008, 10:05 AM
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Default [Resolved] [2005] Call Outlook with attachment

I have a vb application that displays a Crystal Report (using CrystalReportViewer). User would like to open outlook with the Crystal Report as an attachment and select receipients.

I have the shell command that opens outlook

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dblRetVal = Shell("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE", vbMaximizedFocus)
but I am not sure if it is possible to include an attachement
 
Old February 11th, 2008, 10:47 AM
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...031101033.aspx

outlook /a "file.doc"

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So, can I do it like this?

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dblRetVal = Shell("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" + "/a" + """ + CrystalReportViewer1 + """ + ")", vbMaximizedFocus)
Not sure if I can attach a CrystalReportViewer as a document.

 
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No you can't - you would have to save the Crystal report to a file (PDF would be my most likely suggestion) and attach that. I'm sure Crystal reports comes with functionality like that.

Also if you use the System.Diagnostics.Process class, as it provide functionality for starting processes with arguments.

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OK, Crystal Report has an option to export a view to a .pdf file. I will try to use that. Thank you.






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