How to deal with spaces in file paths?

Votuc · 2010-10-13

I have a file path that attaches a PDF to an email. NAV does not retrieve the file from the server when I save the file in this folder name - and I suspect it is because of the spaces in the name Old Storage Drive. Because the client computers are already mapped to this location for other reasons, it is not a good idea to change the file folder name.

How can I alter this so that the spaces in "Old Storage Drive" is not a problem?

                    Mail.NewMessage(emailtoaddr,emailccaddr,STRSUBSTNO('Invoice No. %1',SalesInvHeader."No."),
                    'Attached please find invoice ' + SalesInvHeader."No."
                    +'.','\\'+Hostname+'\F$\Old Storage Drive\InvoicePrinter\Invoices\'+STRSUBSTNO
                    ('Invoice No. %1',SalesInvHeader."No.")+'.pdf',TRUE)

reijermolenaar · 2010-10-13

Hi Votuc,

I believe you can replace the spaces with %20.

Votuc · 2010-10-13

reijermolenaar wrote:

Hi Votuc,

I believe you can replace the spaces with %20.

This does not seem to work

reijermolenaar · 2010-10-13

Oh sorry, I thought you were making a link in the body and then you have to use %20 or + for spaces to make it one string.

As attachment location the spaces would not be the problem I think.
I just tested it and it works.
Even with a network path.

Mail.NewMessage('info@test.com', '', 'subject', 'body', '\\l04\c$\Program Files\test test.txt', TRUE);

Votuc · 2010-10-13

Thank you for your help. I wonder what is wrong. The file saves perfectly, but does not create the mail attachement. However, if I just save to F:\Invoices (folder I created) then it works perfectly. That led me to think that spaces were the problem.

//save report as PDF
REPORT.SAVEASPDF(206, 'F:\Old Storage Drive\InvoicePrinter\Invoices\'+STRSUBSTNO('Invoice No. %1',SalesInvHeader."No.")+'.pdf',
                  SalesInvHeader);

//Create email attachment
                    Mail.NewMessage(emailtoaddr,emailccaddr,STRSUBSTNO('Invoice No. %1',SalesInvHeader."No."),
                    'Attached please find invoice ' + SalesInvHeader."No."
                    +'.','\\'+Hostname+'\F$\Old Storage Drive\InvoicePrinter\Invoices\'+STRSUBSTNO
                    ('Invoice No. %1',SalesInvHeader."No.")+'.pdf',TRUE)

kine · 2010-10-14

in standard cases you need to put the path into "" to prevent splitting on spaces.

How to deal with spaces in file paths?

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