Question

Is it possible to send a partial page, say content of an IFrame or Content of a Panel as an attachment in an Email?

I am dynamically creating manufacturing drawing pages with dynamic dimensioning. I’d like the user to be able to click an Email button and send it as attachment to the vendor.

Answer 1

You can use Server.Execute to execute a page, capture the output in your TextWriter, and then use that string to build an html attachment for your e-mail. The server.execute is still executed in the current user context, so if you put their selections in the Session or so, it´s easy enough to build the nexessary html. There are some pitfalls though:

• If you´re linking to images and using hrefs, either make those absolute links or use a base href tag in your head
• I´d beware of sending html attachments: spam filters and virus scanners could block them.

Good luck!

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