Open Outlook from WebQuerySave agent

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Sorry I have posted something similar earlier but I was not clear. I am sorry for the inconvineance. Let me describe the situation clearlyI have a Domino Web workflow application. When user clicks on Save button a webQuerySave agent runs. the agent is supposed to do few validations and calculations before it sends an email. currently the agent is sending emails in HTML format. The users now do not want an email to be sent. they want outlook to open up with To and CC fields populated based on the step of workflow. The user will ht send and th email will be delivered. My question is How can i launch Outlook from Lotus Script in WebQuerySave agent. I am using Release 5 version. I already tried OLE, but i get cannot create automation object error.

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Subject: Open Outlook from WebQuerySave agent

I’m not sure if this is possible. The problem is that the WebQuerySave agent runs on the Domino Server and as such, it can’t launch Outlook on the client’s machine.

You might be able to accomplish something like this by having the WebQuerySave agent redirect to a mailto link. However, you will have to pass the To, CC, Subject and Body as part of the mailto link and I don’t know if there is a size limitation on the mailto link.

For the redirect portion of the code, you can use a Print statement. Something similar to this:

Print “[mailto:email@address.com?subject=Message Subject&body=Body of your message]”