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

[lmillich@yahoo.com]

Andy, 

As I remember OSS Note 559234 (or one of the related
ones listed in it) may mention some workaround about
the '&' charcter in URLs. 

Rgds

Laszlo  

--- Andy Curtis <abcurtis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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