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OK. Isee what you're doing there. I did howver jsut write the whole thing in VBS Which works fine. But then to get it schedule I added it as a task. However I get an error with this line nicbrd=formatdatetime(brddate,vblongdate) Basically i want to generate an email with a decent date format - vblon...

I think this Vbscript works... Function secthur(chkdate) Dim dtmp dtmp = DateSerial(Year(chkdate), Month(chkdate), 1) Do While WeekDay(dtmp) <> vbThursday dtmp = dtmp + 1 Loop secthur = dtmp + 7 End Function x = secthur(int(now())) if x< int(now()) then x = secthur(DateSerial(Year(now()), Month(Now(...

Great. One thing I thought of April 2014 - The 2nd thursday is 10th so the message would need send Mon 31 Mar May 2014 would need a reminder sent 28th April So it's not jsut a case of saying if now() + 10 = 2nd thursday of this month then ... It's more a case of saying if now now() + 10 = a second t...

We have ameeting every 2nd thursday of the month However I need to send a remind out 10 days before that What I thougt was a task that runs every monday and checks to see if now + 10 days = 2nd thursday of the month If so then email saying the meeting is now + 10 days please make sure your report is...

i have some files In a folder. They are all date_xxxx_costs.pdf What I want to do is run through the list and email each file indivudally to xxxxfile@domain.com I was thinking of using a variable emailto then using strextra grab characters 12-15 and assign that string to the variable emailto Then am...

That sorted it.
I don't kow why it works in one task and not the other though.
I cut and pasted the 4 steps into my task and it doesnt work. But they work by themselves. How bizzarre!

Thanks yet again Oleg.

OK Since I can actually answer this I thought I would A file trigger watches for a specific file So you could do something like watch folder for a text file. Then using a file loop you could copy the contents of the text file to the cliupboard and paste into email Then delete the original file somet...

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I've made a task that look sfor 5 files in 5 folders It then merges some PDFS generates alist of the files and emails it out then it moves the PDFs into some folders Everything works except the email doesn't include the variable which is a list of filenames. I created a standalone task and it works ...

Woohoo
Sorted this myself
The variable {} are throwing me

The variable is referred to without brackets
The variables values is referred to with brackets

Doh!