HTML links in outlook

[jacc14]

Not sure if I am in the right discussion group for this but here goes.

We have a customer who sends us an invoice as a pdf attachment. In the body of the outlook email are two links. The first one you click on to tell the customer if you ACCEPT THE CHARGES, the second one you click to tell the customer if you REJECT THE CHARGES.

The idea is really good and I want to copy it but dont know how it will be done.

Any ideas anyone??

Thanks

jacc14

[jhardman]

which part are you worrying how to copy? creating a link in an email, or having a link followed produce some result on your computer?

Jared

[jkmyoung]

Are you thinking of creating an automated request handler to handle when the customer clicks on it?

You'd probably have 2 hyperlinks; one would be like:
<a href="http:\\www.thescripts.com\form.asp?customeri d=3255153251&acceptCharges=Y">Accept</a>
the other would be similar:
<a href="http:\\www.thescripts.com\form.asp?customeri d=3255153251&acceptCharges=N">Reject</a>

You'd have to populate the customerid for each individual customer, and set up your server to handle the requests.

[jacc14]

which part are you worrying how to copy? creating a link in an email, or having a link followed produce some result on your computer?

Jared

It is the latter so that when they click on a link it somehow reports it back to ourselves. Wasnt sure if it could autoemail the answer.

Thanks

[jhardman]

It is the latter so that when they click on a link it somehow reports it back to ourselves. Wasnt sure if it could autoemail the answer.

Thanks

then jkmyoung is right. you would have some kind of link to a page with some sort of server-side coding or scripting (some page with extension .asp, .php, .pl etc.) followed by a querystring ("?accept=no&customerNumber=12345&bid=435"). The page you link to can interpret the input you send it and make changes to a database or spreadsheet or send an email or whatever. So what's your next step?

Jared