I am trying to use the Outlook mailitem object to autogenerate an email
and send it out.  I have everything working except the positioning of
the attachment is kind of weird.  There is a position parameter for the
Attachments.Add method , but the help file only states that the position
property is of type long.  It does not give a description of how the
property is interpreted into a screen location.  Does anyone have the
info I need to interpret this property.

Creates a new attachment in the Attachments collection, and returns the
new attachment as an Attachment object.

Syntax

expression.Add(Source, Type, Position, DisplayName)

expression   An expression that returns an Attachments object.
Source   Required String. The file (represented by the full path and
file name) or item that constitutes the attachment.
Type   Optional Long. The type of attachment. Can be one of the
following OlAttachmentType constants: olByReference, olByValue,
olEmbeddedItem, or olOLE.
Position   Optional Long. The position of the attachment within the body
text of the message.
DisplayName   Optional String. The display name of the attachment.

Sincerely,
Dave Burt

I am trying to use the Outlook mailitem object to autogenerate an email
and send it out.  I have everything working except the positioning of
the attachment is kind of weird.  There is a position parameter for the
Attachments.Add method , but the help file only states that the position
property is of type long.  It does not give a description of how the
property is interpreted into a screen location.  Does anyone have the
info I need to interpret this property.

Creates a new attachment in the Attachments collection, and returns the
new attachment as an Attachment object.

Syntax

expression.Add(Source, Type, Position, DisplayName)

expression   An expression that returns an Attachments object.
Source   Required String. The file (represented by the full path and
file name) or item that constitutes the attachment.
Type   Optional Long. The type of attachment. Can be one of the
following OlAttachmentType constants: olByReference, olByValue,
olEmbeddedItem, or olOLE.
Position   Optional Long. The position of the attachment within the body
text of the message.
DisplayName   Optional String. The display name of the attachment.

Sincerely,
Dave Burt

Any specific reason why you want to insert at a specific position?  I've
used 0 and it works just fine.

    With mobjNewMessage
        .Text = " " & mobjNewMessage.Text
        Set objAttachment = .Attachments.Add
        With objAttachment
            .Position = 0
            .Name = stLabel
            'no need to link a file me thinks
            .Type = CdoFileData
            .ReadFromFile stFile
        End With
        .Update
    End With

Also, if you check out the References/Downloads section at the website in my
sig., the MAPIstuff.zip might help some.

HTH
--
Dev Ashish (Just my $.001)
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    I am trying to use the Outlook mailitem object to autogenerate an email
and send it out.  I have everything working except the positioning of the
attachment is kind of weird.  There is a position parameter for the
Attachments.Add method , but the help file only states that the position
property is of type long.  It does not give a description of how the
property is interpreted into a screen location.  Does anyone have the info I
need to interpret this property.
    Creates a new attachment in the Attachments collection, and returns the
new attachment as an Attachment object.

    Syntax

    expression.Add(Source, Type, Position, DisplayName)

    expression   An expression that returns an Attachments object.
    Source   Required String. The file (represented by the full path and
file name) or item that constitutes the attachment.
    Type   Optional Long. The type of attachment. Can be one of the
following OlAttachmentType constants: olByReference, olByValue,
olEmbeddedItem, or olOLE.
    Position   Optional Long. The position of the attachment within the body
text of the message.
    DisplayName   Optional String. The display name of the attachment.

    Sincerely,
    Dave Burt

Sincerely,
Dave

No position 0 would put it at the start of the message.  You've done it the
write way, although you can put the postion as being past the length of the
message too.

HTH

Steve Arbaugh
ATTAC Consulting Group
web: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/attac-cg/acgsoft.htm
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