Sending Category field to Outlook from an external sys 1

crslack · Jan 13, 2004

I am programming in an SAP system and I can send e-mail messages out and format them as HTML. Is there a way that Outlook would intepret an HTML tag to fill in the Categories field in the Options menu?

Help here could also be useful in sending e-mail messages from web pages etc.

xmsre · Jan 13, 2004

If you take an html email, save as, the go look at the html source of the saved file, you see:
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<BODY lang=EN-US vLink=purple link=blue>From: John [John@domain.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:54
PM To: 'John@domain.com' Subject:
xxxxxxx Categories: cat test 
<DIV class=Section1>
This is a test of Outlook categories.</DIV></BODY></HTML>

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Note that what we see in outlook as the header is above <DIV class=Section1>. Categories is just another line.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

crslack · Jan 14, 2004

I have done a little research and my take on this is that Save as... creates a format and that that isn't necessarily how the text is transmitted or parsed in regular communications.

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Sending Category field to Outlook from an external sys 1

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