Is it possible to specify table/column/cell widths of a HTML table in Outlook using proc print?
I've tried defining templates and specifying via styles and the tagattr option.
Using the style= option on proc print.
Formatting emails for certain clients (Outlook, gmail, yahoo etc) is a job role all in itself. There are books written on the subject, but a primer can be found here. The short answer is that no, it is not possible using proc print.. instead you are going to have to generate very specific HTML and CSS in order to get around the rules applied by the Outlook rendering engine.
For instance, Outlook will strip all of your default styles - they have to be applied as attribute specific styles (eg <table style="width:300px">) .
Further tips here, but many can be found with a keyword search on "outlook email styles"..
No it is not possible. I just spent 4 hours trying every permutation of every option available.
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When I export the xml file of a multiple choice question, it contains the following lines:
<idnumber>arbitrary_id_set_by_user</idnumber>
<answernumbering>ABCD</answernumbering>
<tag></tag>
Is there a way to add idnumber, answernumbering and tag to the metainformation section of the question so that r-exams can export to moodle XML as <idnumber>idnumber</idnumber>,<answernumbering>ABCD</answernumbering>, <tag>tag1</tag>, and <tag>tag2</tag> etc?
The <answernumbering> tag can be set in exams2moodle() via the answernumbering= argument, see ?exams2moodle. The reason for this is that this is set in the same way for all exercises in a quiz. This is more consistent than setting it individually and potentially inconsistently in the meta-information of the different exercises.
The <idnumber> tag appears to be used by Moodle only for internal purposes. It is also not mentioned in the official Moodle XML documentation at https://docs.moodle.org/311/en/Moodle_XML_format. Hence we did not implement it in exams2moodle().
The <tag> is currently not supported in exams2moodle() because we felt that it would be more important to have tags in the Rmd (or Rnw) exercise itself and not the Moodle version of the exercise. For structuring the content on the Moodle side the exsection meta-information can be used, see boxhist for a worked example.
Finally, you can add arbitrary metainformation by using the exextra tag. This is used, for example, in the essayreg exercise template. However, there is no general way of using this extra metainformation to insert additional XML code in the exams2moodle() output. To do that, the source code underlying exams2moodle() would have to be adapted correspondingly.
I have expended a good deal of effort trying to convert emails to PDF.
I am using Delphi 10.4 although that is not necessarily relevant to the question.
I came up with a solution that involves extraction of the body from the email in whatever format (HTML, RTF or TXT). I use INDY for this or Outlook if email is in MSG format.
I then save the body to file and open it using MS Word via automation. Then it should be a simple matter of saving the Word document in PDF format.
However, MS Word doesn't seem to read html files that well.
From the numerous samples of emails that I have tried, I have come across several issues which were complex to solve.
Examples:
html tables expanding beyond the document's page width. I solved this by working out what the page width is, setting the offending table's width as fixed and setting it to the page width and finally resizing it's columns proportionately to its new width.
That worked well until I tried to process an email with html tables with differing numbers of columns/cells per row. That causes a crash. I solved that by handling the exception and iterating through each table by row and working with its cells rather than columns.
Images within table cells often overlap the cell and the page width. Solved by iterating through all InlineShapes, checking whether they are within a table and, if so setting their width to the cell width.
There have been other issues, but I now have something that seems to work pretty well on a fairly disparate bunch of emails.
But I would think it incredibly likely that there will be new issues that will crop up from time to time and since this procedure is designed to deal unsupervised with batches of emails, this is a concern.
So my question is, does anyone know of a better way of dealing with this? For example, is there some simple way of getting Word to to "nicely" format the html on loading so that it displays and saves to PDF in a readable fashion similar to how it looks when you open the same email in Outlook.
Have you tried using the WordEditor property of the Outlook Inspector object? This returns the Microsoft Word Document Object Model of the message and you can export directly to PDF from that.
Here is a basic example...
Private Sub Demo()
Dim MailItem As MailItem
Dim FileName As String
FileName = "C:\Users\Sam\Desktop\Email.pdf"
Set MailItem = ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
With MailItem.GetInspector
.WordEditor.ExportAsFixedFormat FileName, 17
.Close 0
End With
MsgBox "Export complete"
End Sub
I am using CRM 2016, and trying to customize email template by adding a dynamic data. I know that CRM allows to use only specific vanilla entities, but when I explorer an old code I found an option to use {0}, {1} etc' for injecting data from non vanilla entities (by code) - unfortunately that code cannot be tested...
Have someone heard or know about that way? is it possible? what to google for?
You can do this by manually typing similar marker what CRM is using. Note that this is not documented in SDK.
Dynamic Values For Custom Entities In Email Templates
In the template, where you want the value to appear, type within 2 brackets an exclamation point followed by the entity logical name. After the entity name, add a colon, and then the field logical name, ending it with a semi colon. If you’d like a default value if nothing was found, after the semi colon add the default value.
{!<entitylogicalname>: <fieldlogicalname>; <Default Text>}
More in part 2:
The Global Template Type is what you’d want to use for custom
entities, or any other entity not listed in the template type drop
down menu. And just to reiterate, regardless of the way you insert
values, whether you use the out of the box insert method or you
manually type it in, you can only insert values from one record.
Dynamic Values For Email Templates - Part 2
Dynamics' email templates are flawed. You either can't use custom entities or you have no translation. I use this workflow instead. It can do everything : https://github.com/rtebar/dynamics-custom-emails
In the SuiteCRM calendar the default for Meetings is to show the SUBJECT of the Meeting followed by the MEETING OBJECTIVES.
I want to modify it so that on the first line it shows the MEETING OBJECTIVES and the second line is the SUBJECT of the Meeting.
I've looked in modules/Calendar and modules/Meetings and I'm still a bit lost. Any idea on which file I need to modify to be able to change the order of these two fields?
Calendar module files are placed inside "modules/Calendar" folder. It contain tpl,js and php classes and functions for calendar module. "get_activities" function inside "modules/Calendar/CalendarActivity.php" actually load activities. You can change text here before it assigned to tpl/js file.
Further more you can also do changes inside this file: "modules/Calendar/Calendar.php" , see function "load_activities"
I think changing in JS should be last option because that is to complex and changes there need more time then doing it in alternative way in PHP file.
I'm searching the block that is called when I used the var {{var order.getBillingAddress().format('html')}} in order_new.html email template.
I need to remove some information displayed by this block.
Thank for your precious help.
The formatting of the address is done in the class Mage_Customer_Block_Address_Renderer_Default.
The best way to remove some data from the rendered address is by adjusting the address templates. In order to do that let me explain how Magento chooses an address template.
1) In a nutshell, first Magento tries to load a format template from the table directory_country_format for the specified type (html, pdf, oneline, text). This gives Magento the capability to have country specific address templates.
If it doesn't find one, it will use the format template from the configuration, using the xpath customer/address_templates/$type.
The defaults can be found in the Mage/Customer/etc/config.xml file.
They can be overridden using the system configuration interface found under System > Config > Customer Configuration > Address Templates on a store level.