Macro generating email using default signature and hyperlink

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Jerry D

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Hi AllI have been working on a macro to generate a weekly set of emails I send out.

When I use the code below that I pieced together to insert my default signature, it works great until I add body text. Then the signature disappears.

Additionally, I am linking to a file on the server and am trying to figure out how to do so without the link being preceeded by "file:"

If I don't include it, the link is not clickable. When I try using <a href> tags, they simply show up in the text as plain text as well.

Sub MailFriday(dteDate As Date)
Dim OlApp As Outlook.Application
Dim ObjMail As Outlook.MailItem

Dim BodyHtml As String
Dim DirSig As String
Dim FileNameHTMSig As String
Dim Pos1 As Long
Dim Pos2 As Long
Dim SigHtm As String

DirSig = "C:\Users\" & Environ("username") & _
"\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures"
FileNameHTMSig = Dir$(DirSig & "\*.htm")
' Code to handle there being no htm signature or there being more than one
SigHtm = GetBoiler(DirSig & "\" & FileNameHTMSig)
Pos1 = InStr(1, LCase(SigHtm), "<body")
' Code to handle there being no body
Pos2 = InStr(Pos1, LCase(SigHtm), ">")
' Code to handle there being no closing > for the body element
BodyHtml = "<table border=0 width=""100%"" style="" Color: #0000FF""" & _
" bgColor=#F0F0F0><tr><td align= ""center"">HTML table</td>" & _
"</tr></table><br>"
BodyHtml = Mid(SigHtm, 1, Pos2 + 1) & BodyHtml & Mid(SigHtm, Pos2 + 2)
Set OlApp = Outlook.Application
Set ObjMail = OlApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
ObjMail.BodyFormat = olFormatHTML
ObjMail.Subject = "Appointments for " & _
Format(dteDate, "m/dd")
ObjMail.Body = "Hi All " & _
"—" & vbCrLf & "Following are the links to the Schedule Reports for the week of " & _
Format(dteDate, "m/dd") & _
":" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & " file:\\corp\public\D\S-1-5-21-39997874\Crew%20and%20Sched%20Reports\All Boroughs" & _
"" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & " Thanks,"


ObjMail.Recipients.Add "my@email.com"
ObjMail.Display

End Sub
 
This is easy:
When I use the code below that I pieced together to insert my default signature, it works great until I add body text. Then the signature disappears.

When you add the body text you are replacing the entire body with
ObjMail.Body = <snip>

you can use word's insertbefore to insert it - something like this will put the text at the top
Code:
Dim olInspector As Outlook.Inspector 
Dim olDocument As Word.Document 
Dim olSelection As Word.Selection 
 
Set olInspector = Application.ActiveInspector() 
Set olDocument = olInspector.WordEditor 
Set olSelection = olDocument.Application.Selection 
 
olSelection.InsertBefore "your text"

Or something like
objmail.body = "my new text" & vbcrlf & objmail.body

I don't know if it will be easier since you already have the html code in the vba, but you can create a template and call it. You might be able to use the date field feature to auto update (it doesn't work in all tempates and i forget if it works in mail).

The problem with the link is because you are putting it into an html document as plain text.

Something like this should work (and assumes you are using the code to insertbefore - if not, you need the dim's and set's to setup word)

strlink is dimmed as a string and is your url.
Code:
        olDocument.Hyperlinks.Add olSelection.Range, strLink, _ 
                              "", "", strLinkText, "" 
    Else 
        olSelection.InsertAfter strLink

if you use the word code, you need to set a reference to the word object model.
 
Thank you, Diane. Your help definitely pointed me in the right direction. Turned out I was overcomplicating the signature issue which your "ObjMail.Body = <snip>" explanation clarified. So I've modified the code greatly. The issue I am running into now is this: The text preceeding and following the hyperlink either doesn't show up at all or becomes clickable itself, inheriting the link's properties and the link itself no longer shows. The other issue is that I now have a 2nd link I need to include since the reports will now be in separate folders. Here's my code and the way it is appearing:

Sub Mailers_1()

Call MailFriday(Date + 2)
End Sub​
____________________________________
Sub MailFriday(dteDate As Date)
Dim ObjMail As Outlook.MailItem
Set OlApp = Outlook.Application
Set ObjMail = OlApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
Dim objOL As Outlook.Application
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim objDoc As Word.Document
Dim objSel As Word.Selection


'Salutation and opening text
Dim strStamp As String
strStamp = "Hi All " & _
"—" & vbCrLf & "Following are the links to the Schedule Reports for the week of" & _
Format(dteDate, "m/dd") & _
":" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
'Closing text
Dim strClose As String
strClose = "Thanks,"


'link 1
Dim strlink As String
strlink = "\\corp\public\D\S-1-5-21-39997874\[URL='https://forums.slipstick.com/file://corp/public/D/S-1-5-21-39997874/Schedule%2520Reports/All%2520Boroughs']All%20Boroughs\Crew%20Reports\[/URL]"


'link 2
Dim strlink_2 As String
strlink = "\\corp\public\D\S-1-5-21-39997874\[URL='https://forums.slipstick.com/file://corp/public/D/S-1-5-21-39997874/Schedule%2520Reports/All%2520Boroughs']All%20Boroughs\Schedule%20Reports\[/URL]"
On Error Resume Next
Set objOL = Application

With ObjMail
.Display
Set objDoc = objOL.ActiveInspector.WordEditor
Set objNS = objOL.Session
Set objSel = objDoc.Application.Selection

objSel.InsertBefore strStamp & vbCrLf
objDoc.Hyperlinks.Add objSel.Range, strlink, _
"", "", strLinkText, ""


objDoc.Hyperlinks.Add objSel.Range, strlink_2, _
"", "", strlink_2Text, ""
objSel.InsertAfter strClose & vbCrLf

ObjMail.Subject = "Appointments for " & _
Format(dteDate, "m/dd")


ObjMail.Recipients.Add "my email address"
Set objOL = Nothing
Set objNS = Nothing
End With


End Sub​
 
add
objSel.Move WdUnits.wdSentence, 1
before the hyperlink to insert a line.

ETA: you can use

objSel.Range.InsertParagraph
to insert a line too

I get an error trying to insert the second hyperlink - does it work for you? Also, you need to assign a string to strLinkText or change it to strLink.
 
I found the problem with the second hyperlink -

Dim strlink_2 As String
strlink =
needs to be strlink_2
 
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