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    Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    Hello all,
    I have a script I built a couple years ago which creates emails in MS Outlook with predefined subject lines, addressees, and attachments. The end user can either run it to display or send. For 2 years it worked fine as I was referencing a simple shared folder for the required attachments. However, when my organization rolled out Sharepoint and upgraded the Office version we were on, the attachments started displaying as failed. I did of course update the file path to reference the Sharepoint Library the attachments were contained in. I do have permissions to that library and when I manually try to navigate to those locations, I have no problem doing so. The email still generates, but the file attachments display as "Download Failed" When I double click on them, it gives me a Retry option and when I select that the download actually succeeds.

    My code is below for your reference, and I'm attaching a screenprint of the email output.

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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    What's the value held in rngAttach1.Value & rngAttach2.Value?

    Is it "https://.../filename" or "\\Servername\...\filename"?

    If "https://...", try saving the link to local temp folder and then add the local file as attachment, instead of directly from SharePoint.
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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    Yes, the values of those rngAttach1 and 2 are those links starting with "https://.

    How would the code look to save the sharepoint file to a local temp drive?

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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    Depends. There are multiple ways to do it. But I tend to use Winhttp.

    I currently don't have SharePoint that I can test with. But try following.

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    If above works, you may want to turn it into function to be used in your actual module.
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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    Alternative is to use urlmon code found in link below.
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...point-with-vba

    Note that you'll need to make it 64bit compatible, if you have 64bit Excel installed.

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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    Thanks, I'll see if I can get these working here. May be a couple days, but I'll get back to you on results.

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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    Sorry for the delay; I did finally get it working, although I used slightly different code than your example above. Thanks for the help!

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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    Thanks for the update. Glad you got it solved.

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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    Could you please share the code you used for your problem? Thanks a lot for sharing

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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    My vba sripts bugs in the line whttp.send
    I do not know how to proceed
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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    Sure thing! Here's the code I have right now. I just manually run it each month from Outlook.

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    Re: Outlook emails pulling attachments from Sharepoint

    Thanks a lot! I have solved my problem

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