Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

1422.0. "Creating Mail from Gold-I Menu" by JULIET::SELLECK_AL () Tue Sep 15 1992 20:11

    
     My user wants to be able to interrupt a Word Processing (WPS-Plus)
    session with the gold-I, and run a script that creates an E-Mail
    message and delivers it to a selected user. 
    (The application will notify the user of a phone message) 
    
    When the Main creations script is executed, the following
    errors occur:
    
    TEXT DSAB open error                      (appears on line 24)
    
    Gold-W reveals:
    
    %OA-E-TXTOPNERR, TEXT DSAB open error
    %OA-E-NOGETTAG, Error getting semantic tag from "[.MSG]ZUIBFGEVK.WPL
    
    
    -RMS-E-FNF, file not found
    
     If the Gold-I menu option that calls the Mail script is run a second
    time, the mail message will be delivered.
    
     Is creating a Mail message while working in the WPS editor a No-No?
    
     If so, is there another way to do it?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mike
    
    The script used follows:
    
    !+
    !       MAIL_TEST.SCP is for testing only...called from GOLD-I menu.
    !+
    .LABEL START
    !
    !
    Mail push_curmes
    mail create/open/nosend
    mail to "MANAGER"
    mail subject "Mail test program"
    mail text " "
    mail text "This is a test of the mail create function"
    mail text " "
    mail text "for user " oa$user
    mail text " "
    mail text "all processing for this mail message is happening "
    mail text " "
    mail text "while the operator is using WPS-Plus"
    mail text " "
    mail close_message
    mail send
    mail pop_curmes
    !
     .EXIT
    
    

    Mike,
    
    WPS-PLUS isn't re-entrant and hasn't been since the dawn of time
    (see many many many previous notes)
    
    I don't think it lets you use EDT either
    
    BTW: I get the error "WPSDEF.WPL is already in use" but that's using
         ALL-IN-1 v3.0

Hi,

How about if you add /NOEDIT to the MAIL CREATE function, thus not using the
editor at all.

Get the user's input for the mail text using a form.  As the text is a phone
message, a form with fields such as "Caller", "Date" (which would of course
be defaulted to the current date), "Time" (ditto), etc would be eminently
suitable.

Then use MAIL TEXT to add text to the message, using the values from the form
above.

Scott

    Re .2
    
    Sounds like the MAILMEMOS ASSET.
    
    Oh, but I shouldn't use the word ASSET any more should I :-)
    
    Graham