Lotus Geek :: Update: Signature Block Wizard

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The other day I described a "toolet" I had written called the Signature Block Wizard. It is a bit of code that you can mail out and allow your users to create nice, HTML/CSS-based signature block without any coding skills needed.

Doug Cohen of SUNY (State University of New York) has modified the toolet to use a directory that isn't tied to the user's My Documents directory; as Doug correctly pointed out, if you replicate your mail file between multiple machines the My Documents directory isn't a good one to use.

I have also added some code that allows the user to choose to either use the default (i.e. attached) graphic, or to choose one of their own.

Here are the resources (Sig_Script_Resources.zip) - the ZIP file contains three files:

maillogo.jpg - this is a Lotus graphic that you can use as an example
my_sig.htm - this is an example HTML file; you can modify it to suit your needs
sig_wizard_v2.lss - the code for the button; simply import it into a button in your mail file, and attach the two other files

Anyone else who chooses to enhance this project please feel free to send it to me, and I will post the update (with credit, of course) for all the world to enjoy!

Rock
**Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege

Comments

1 - Hi Rocky

I have made a lot of changes to your code (cleaned it up, converted it to a class, read the user settings from the N&A (Domino Directory), read the HTML / Logo File from a central database etc). I would like to send you the updated code, unfortunatly I cannot find your email address anywhere on your site. Could you please send me it?

Thanking you in advance
Ursus Schneider

Posted by ursus At 03:27:38 AM On 09/15/2005 | - Website - |

2 - Rocky, quick question, how can I inlcude my signature only on new emails, (not on replies). I'm new to Lotus Notes, and so far I have mixed feelings about this email client. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Posted by Gil At 05:30:19 PM On 01/10/2007 | - Website - |

3 - yeah, Rocky, how 'bout providing Ursus with that email address and then graciously publish that code?

/airplay

Posted by airplay At 06:52:13 PM On 10/12/2005 | - Website - |

4 - Hello Rocky,

I'm a Lotus Domino admin for around 8 years now and I'm trying to teach myself some LotusScript. I came across your Script for the Signature and I am wondering how I can change where the Script calls the directory to get the Image files from. I am looking to pull it from a network drive that all users are mapped to. Currently you map it to the Users My Documents\My Pictures directory. This is the string that I'm talking about.
userdirdef = Environ("USERPROFILE")
newpicpath = ws.OpenFileDialog(False, "New Sig Graphic", "All files|*.*|Bitmap|*.bmp|JPEG|*.jpg|GIF|*.gif", _
userdirdef & "\My Documents\My Pictures", "*.*")

Thanks for writing some great scripts for people like me to look at and learn with.

Dan

Posted by Dan Koopman At 04:37:59 PM On 01/12/2007 | - Website - |

5 - I am an Admin - not a Developer, so I don't know LotusScript. Could you tell me how to remove the third line in the signature - IBM Corporation\LotusSoftware and replace it with our company name? I also need to get rid of the TIE reference.
Otherwise it works great and would really like to offer it to our school system adminstrators. Thanks!!

Posted by Cathy Maynard At 02:14:08 PM On 10/19/2005 | - Website - |

6 - Did you make sure the sig degrades gracefully when watching the text part of the message? All my mail clients are configured to disregard the HTML portion of the mail.

Posted by Volker Weber At 03:32:44 PM On 08/12/2005 | - Website - |

7 - Sure, you had to show me up and do one better by adding the prompt allowing users to select their own picture.

Posted by Doug Cohen At 02:55:26 PM On 08/12/2005 | - Website - |

8 - Same as CathyM, could you please also tell me how to remove the third line in the signature - IBM Corporation\LotusSoftware and replace it with our company name? I also need to get rid of the TIE reference. This is great. Just what we need.

Thanks

Posted by JeffW At 05:39:28 PM On 06/10/2006 | - Website - |