URL Links with '&' reading as expressions in Send Mail Task

[Andy Curtis]

I spent the best part of a day debugging this type of scenario this week. I 
had a URL string in a container element and inserted that container element 
in to the Send Mail text. The mail contained the URL but with a missing & 
which then meant the browser did not interpret the URL parameters correctly.
 My Sendmail text included -> 
 Link: &FormUrl##& 
  TO get it to output the correct Url string I did as Jocelyn suggests with 
the SAPScript escape characters, but not around the &'s, but around the 
entire string, (ie tell SAP the entire string is special)
 so I had in my sendmail text ->
 Link: <(> &FormUrl##& <)>
  Regards ... Andy Curtis
   On 6/17/05, Dart, Jocelyn <jocelyn.dart at sap.com> wrote: 
> 
> Hi Tom, 
> if you do it right it should the escape characters should show in the old 
> editor or display mode, but not in the usual edit mode. You might need to 
> try one of the Sapscript insert symbol or similar options. 
>  
> Regards, 
> *Jocelyn Dart* 
> Senior Consultant 
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> *From:* sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] *On 
> Behalf Of *PEOU Tom T
> *Sent:* Friday, 17 June 2005 3:55 PM
> *To:* sap-wug at mit.edu
> *Subject:* URL Links with '&' reading as expressions in Send Mail Task
> 
>   Thanks Jocelyn,
> 
>  That works fine and my URL hyperlink is created. However, when I click on 
> the link from the email, it will open an internet browser but the URL 
> address is wrong. 
> 
> It seems to convert the <(>&<)> to %20%20%20%20 in the URL on the Internet 
> browser.
> 
>  Have you encountered this problems before?
> 
>  Many thanks,
> 
> Tom
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