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Re: FM 11 - Emailing lists

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On 2011-10-14 23:28:24 +0000, Your Name said:

> In article <2011101215485852723-douga@fcstonecom>, Doug Anderson
> <douga@fcstone.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have a database with two tables.
>> 
>> Table one consists of just one field, its an email address.  There are
>> no duplicate email addresses, each is unique.
>> 
>> In the second table I have two fields, one is email address which is
>> linked to table 1 and the second is a customer name.
>> 
>> In layouts I can create a portal that shows for each email address all
>> the customer names.
>> 
>> What I want to do is carry that over to the Send Mail function; but
>> I've been unable to figure that piece out. How do I insert a
>> Calculation that will pull each record from table 2 where the email
>> address matches and in the body of the email list the values in list
>> form from the customer names field?
> 
> You already have a Relationship link from Emails -> Names, so you're half
> way there.
> 
> Now you can create a new Calculation field in the Emails Table that
> retrieves all the Names via that Relationship using the List function (it
> depends on what version of FileMaker you're using as to what this function
> is actually called).
> e.g.
>       EmailNames     Calculation, Text Result, Unstored
>          = List (Relationship::Name)
> 
> This will cause the EmailNames field to be given a copy of all the related
> Names, separated by a carriage return character.
> 
> For example, if you had data like:
> 
>     Email Table:      Flinstones@Bedrock.com
>                       Rubbles@Bedrock.com
> 
>     Names Table:      Flinstones@Bedrock.com      Fred
>                       Flinstones@Bedrock.com      Wilma
>                       Rubbles@Bedrock.com         Barney
>                       Flinstones@Bedrock.com      Peebles
>                       Rubbles@Bedrock.com         Betty
>                       Rubbles@Bedrock.com         Bam-Bam
>                       Flinstones@Bedrock.com      Dino
> 
> Then the new EmailNames field in the Email Table for the two records would
> have this data:
> 
>     Fred
>     Wilma
>     Peebles
>     Dino
> 
> and
> 
>     Barney
>     Betty
>     Bam-Bam
> 
> The order of the Names will depend on the sorting of the Relationship.
> 
> This Field can then be used when emailing - you can of course replace the
> carriage return character with commas or whatever else you want using the
> Substitute function.
> 
> Helpful Harry   :o)

Thank you for the help, that worked perfectly.

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