{"id":11788,"date":"2018-12-01T17:53:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T01:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seedcode.com\/?p=11788"},"modified":"2023-02-02T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:20:26","slug":"filemaker-gmail-email-attachments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seedcode.com\/filemaker-gmail-email-attachments\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating FileMaker and Gmail Part 2 \u2013 Sending Attachments"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This is the second in a series of articles on using the Gmail API from FileMaker. The first article has some background on this approach as well as instructions for authenticating to the Gmail API and sending HTML emails. Please review that article here<\/a>\u00a0if you haven\u2019t already. Additionally, there\u2019s a great post by dbservices<\/a> on integrating Gmail with FileMaker that lead to these articles and should be checked out as well.<\/p>

As with the first article, all of these examples use the native Insert From URL script step so there won\u2019t be any plug-ins required, and since the Insert From URL is supported in all aspects of the FileMaker platform, these techniques can be adapted to work<\/strong> on the Server, Go, FileMaker Cloud, and WebDirect.\u00a0<\/strong>These techniques require FileMaker 16 or higher as they use the advanced cURL options<\/a>\u00a0introduced in that version.<\/p>

In this article, we\u2019re looking at sending large, multiple attachments via Gmail. Here\u2019s a video overview along with a new free example file below.<\/p>

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FileMaker Gmail Integration: Example File<\/h2>

Please download the example file FM2Gmail v1.21<\/a> for a working demo. This new version adds the ability to send attachments and replaces v1.1 from the previous article<\/a>. File updated July 19th, 2019.<\/p>

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FM2Gmail Example File v1.2<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Sending an Email with Attachments from FileMaker<\/h2>

Before we can send anything, we do need to authenticate our app with Google. Please refer to our previous article\u2019s section on Getting Started \/ Authentication<\/a> if you need to review these steps. Once we\u2019re all authenticated, we can compose a new e-mail with attachments. You\u2019ll notice in the new example file that the compose window has a new paper clip button for adding attachments. This button brings up a Card window which we can use to drag attachments in, add individual attachments and import entire folders of images or text files.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> (more…)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the second in a series of articles on using the Gmail API from FileMaker. The first article has some background on this approach as well as instructions for authenticating to the Gmail API and sending HTML emails. Please review that article here\u00a0if you haven\u2019t already. Additionally, there\u2019s a great post by dbservices on integrating Gmail with FileMaker that lead to these articles and should be checked out as well. As with the first article, all of these examples use the native Insert From URL script step so there won\u2019t be any plug-ins required, and since the Insert From URL is supported in all aspects of the FileMaker platform, these techniques can be adapted to work on the Server, Go, FileMaker Cloud, and WebDirect.\u00a0These techniques require FileMaker 16 or higher as they use the advanced cURL options\u00a0introduced in that version. In this article, we\u2019re looking at sending large, multiple attachments via Gmail. Here\u2019s a video overview along with a new free example file below. \u00a0 FileMaker Gmail Integration: Example File Please download the example file FM2Gmail v1.21 for a working demo. This new version adds the ability to send attachments and replaces v1.1 from the previous article. File updated July 19th, 2019. Sending an Email with Attachments from FileMaker Before we can send anything, we do need to authenticate our app with Google. Please refer to our previous article\u2019s section on Getting Started \/ Authentication if you need to review these steps. Once we\u2019re all authenticated, we can compose a new e-mail with attachments. You\u2019ll notice in the new example file that the compose window has a new paper clip button for adding attachments. 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