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- Name: DB2ABK.aem
-
- TO BE USED BY REGISTERED USER'S ONLY
-
- This ARexx script is used to take email addresses stored in a data base and
- add them to a group in your AEMail address book. It is designed to work
- with a data base created by Final Data by Softwood.
-
- To use this script without modifications you will need to have a field in
- the database with a NAME = "email".
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- HOW TO IMPLEMENT
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- This script is probably best placed in your REXX: directory. Before
- starting the script you will have to have a database defined in Final Data
- containing the email data you want to add to the address book. The field
- name must be named "email". You can use a different name if you modify
- 'email' in line 58 of the script to the name you use in your database.
-
- Final Data is executed using the statement in line 44:
-
- ADDRESS COMMAND "Run >NIL: FinalData:FinalData"
-
- The standard installation of Final Data does not provide a FinalData:
- assign. You will have to add this to your User-startup yourself or change
- the above line in your script to the full path name of where Final Data is
- located.
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- HOW TO USE
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-
- When the script is called it will ask you to supply the name for the
- Address Book Group that you want to add the email addresses to. It will do
- this by displaying a listview of all of the groups in your address book
- with the title "Select the Group Wanted". You can click on the group you
- want to add the address to. It will appear in the string gadget below the
- list view. Click on [OK] or press RETURN to accept this group.
-
- If you want to create a new group, you can modify the nickname in the
- string gadget and the description name. After ckicking on [OK] you will be
- asked if you want to create it, enter a new name, or cancel. If you wish
- to create it, the group will be created when the first email address is
- processed. You will be immediately prompted, however, for the Group
- Description (it will default to the description you entered in the list
- view string gadget) and if you want to set the Send Header Only flag when
- the group is created. If you want quotes surrounding the group
- description, they should be entered with the group description string.
-
- If the nickname is already used for an individual, you will be given an
- opportunity to reentering the nickname or cancelling.
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- If you cancel the "Select the Group Wanted" requester or one of the error
- notifications, you will exit from the script and will have to restart it.
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- The next thing the script will do is load Final Data if it is not already
- loaded. You will then be asked to open a database by Final Data. This
- database must already have been created.
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- The script will then look for the field in each selected record in the
- database with a column heading of 'email'. The data from this field will
- then be added to the selected group in the address book.
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- When you exit from the script, Final Data will be terminated. It will ask
- you if you want to save the changes to the database that you have made.
- Reply appropriately.
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