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How do I email a contact?

If the contact has a valid email address (we consider this a phone, fax, or email entry labeled with a class of “Email” and a at sign somewhere in the address then you'll see a green at sign beside the email address. Clicking on this will start an email message to that contact in your email application of choice.

Note that this is somewhat limited by FileMaker Pro’s ability to speak with your email client. Search FileMaker’s built in Help for “email” to learn more about supported email clients.

You can also use the Mailings feature of this calendar to send an email to just one contact, this would let you use the templates and merge fields we’ve set up to help you compose your mail; it would also keep a record of the email in the contact’s “Mailings” tab. Read the topic “mailings” in this documentation for more information.

How do I email a found set of contacts?

Using the Mailings Component.

SeedCode Calendar offers a Mailing engine to help you compose emails (and printed mail) to found sets of contacts, and to the contacts represented by found sets of appointments, invoices, etc. Read the topic mailings in this documentation for more information.

Using FileMaker’s built in Send Mail Command.

The best way to do this is to select “Send Mail” from FileMaker’s File menu once you’ve built the found set of contacts you’d like to send the email to. You’ll be taken to a new FileMaker window where you can specify the address, subject, and body of the email. Some or all of these attributes can be taken from fields in the SeedCode Calendar database. We imagine you’ll at least want to take the “To:” address from the database. Use this field as the To: address…

Contact::ContactEmailMainCalc

Be sure to check that send mail window carefully to make sure you’ve entered the message as you intended and that you’ve selected to send this to the found set of contacts instead of just the current contact’s record.