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Thomas Wieser - 27 Jul 2004 15:59 GMT

Hi,

I want to open an attchment in a HTML email by clicking on a link. I
trid several versions with JavaScript, but they didn't work. :-(

Has anyone tips how to implement such a functionality?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 27 Jul 2004 16:24 GMT

What kind of link?

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Thomas Wieser - 27 Jul 2004 16:53 GMT

> What kind of link?

Just a normal HTML one, like

<a href="javascript:showAttachment(filename)">Click here</a>

would be pretty enough, onClick would also be no problem! Any ideas?

Thanks, Thomas.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 27 Jul 2004 17:24 GMT

Outlook messages don't run HTML code. You'd need to use a straight <a> link
instead:

<a href="file://filename">

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Thomas Wieser - 28 Jul 2004 09:10 GMT

Hi,

> Outlook messages don't run HTML code. You'd need to use a straight <a> link
> instead:
> <a href="file://filename">

Thanks, but it doesn't solve my problem. The mouse pointer turns into a
hand when over the link, of course, but by clicking an alert with the
german version of 'Can't find file "\\myAttachment.pdf"' is shown.

Any other ideas?

Regards, Thomas

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 28 Jul 2004 13:22 GMT

Looks like you didn't provide the full path to the file. But now I read from
your subject line something I didn't see in your earlier message -- that
you're trying to open an attachment with this technique. That's not
possible.

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>
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> Regards, Thomas

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