E-Mail & Web Address Identification

I got tired of people always asking me what their email address or web site address is so I have written a little application that will present the email address and web site address to the user when they run the application.

This requires RAD to be installed on your server, so if you have it, it is free. Send me an email if it is useful.

Clicking on the

button will send an email to the user, summarizing the information.

Clicking on the

button will open the web site belonging to the user.

This application assumes that you have chosen

in the Advanced Directory/Aliases Tab form OR your have entered an alias in the individual user info form.

No entries are made in the user info alias field

Then the user id is used along with the specified domain names for both email and web. (See below for how the domain names are entered)

There is at least one entry in the alias field

will pick up the first entry in the field and use it to yield

The first entry in the alias field contains an "@"symbol

will use the full address and not use the email domain.

Note: If there are any spaces in the user's UserID, the space will be replaced by the space character defined in the Advanced Directory/Aliases Tab form.

So a userid of "Jo Schmo" will have "Jo_Schmo" substituted before displaying the addresses.

Merge the EmailWebInfo.fc form and icon with your language resources file (English Resources for english speaking installations)

Installing the application and specifying email and web domains

To install the RAD application, download the Email_WebInfo.fcx form and copy it to your \FCPO\FCRAD folder on your server.

and locate

Click on the line and click on

and this will load the application and make it ready for installation.

To install an instance of the application, create a conference or folder to hold the application, open it and choose Admin > New Stationery > RAD Install Form

This will create a form that needs to be completed.

Enter "RAD.DLL" (no quotes) in the first field

In the Application name" field, enter Email_WebInfo followed by a space then your email domain followed by another space, then your web domain.

The above diagram hides the full application name. It is actually

"Email_WebInfo richmond.sd38.bc.ca www.sd38.bc.ca" (no quotes) where

richmond.sd38.bc.ca is the email domain name and

Select the installed form, currently called

and choose File > Properties

Give it an appropriate icon, change the name and Protect it.