Reading htm file to .HTMLBody VBA - html

Question

I'm attempting to automate an email using an Excel worksheet and VBA. I'm able to copy the desired range into the email, but I want to use a htm file for the HTML formatting.
How do I read a htm file and add it to the .HTMLBody of my email?
Here's my code, which sends an email with the correct worksheet, but does not include the HTML formatting that is added with the test(path) function:
Sub Send_To_Outlook()
Dim AWorksheet As Worksheet
Dim Sendrng As range
Dim rng As range
Dim text As String
Dim textline As String
Dim sPath As String
sPath = "H:\My Documents\email.htm"
On Error GoTo StopMacro
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = False
.EnableEvents = False
End With
'Fill in the Worksheet/range you want to mail
Set Sendrng = Worksheets("Email").range("C6:L244")
'Remember the activesheet
Set AWorksheet = ActiveSheet
With Sendrng
' Select the worksheet with the range you want to send
.Parent.Select
'Remember the ActiveCell on that worksheet
Set rng = ActiveCell
'Select the range you want to mail
.Select
' Create the mail and send it
ActiveWorkbook.EnvelopeVisible = True
With .Parent.MailEnvelope
With .Item
.To = "myemail#email.com"
.CC = ""
.BCC = ""
.Subject = "My subject"
.HTMLBody = test(sPath)
.Send
End With
End With
'select the original ActiveCell
rng.Select
End With
'Activate the sheet that was active before you run the macro
AWorksheet.Select
StopMacro:
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = True
.EnableEvents = True
End With
ActiveWorkbook.EnvelopeVisible = False
End Sub
Function test(sPath As String)
Dim oFSO As Object
Dim oFS As Object, sText As String
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oFS = oFSO.OpenTextFile(sPath)
test= oFS.ReadAll()
End Function
Any suggestions or advice on why this isn't working would be awesome!
PS I also need to display the message instead of send, but this isn't as important of an issue.

Answer 1

Your function doesn't return any value.
Try this:
Function test(sPath As String)
test = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(sPath).ReadAll()
End Function

Answer 2

When you say that your code doesn't work, does that mean that you get an error or that the code executes but the email body is empty?
I would first check to see if your "test" Function is returning a null string:
Function test(sPath As String)
Dim oFSO As Object
Dim oFS As Object, sText As String
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oFS = oFSO.OpenTextFile(sPath)
' I don't think you need to loop until EOF with .ReadAll
sText = oFS.ReadAll
' This will print sText to the Immediate Window; if it is 0, then sText is null
Debug.Print ("sText string has a length of: " & Len(sText))
End Function
My guess is that sText is null. If it is reading the .htm successfully, I would next check to make sure that the .htm is valid .html syntax.

Answer 3

I solved my problem. There was an issue when using html coupled with sending the worksheet range in the above code. I decided to covert the worksheet into html, export the chart into an image and insert it into the rest of the html for the email.
Sub Mail_Sheet_Outlook_Body()
Dim rng1 As range
Dim rng2 As range
Dim OutApp As Object
Dim OutMail As Object
Dim newimage As Action
Dim aPath As String
Dim bPath As String
Dim sPath As String
'Name the variables for your the needed paths
sPath = "C:\Chart1.png"
aPath = "C:\email1.htm"
bPath = "C:\email2.htm"
'Export your chart as an image
Call ExportChart("Chart1")
'Select the range your desired tables are in
Set rng1 = Worksheets("Email").range("C6:L32")
Set rng2 = Worksheets("Email").range("C45:L244")
Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)
'Create the email
On Error Resume Next
With OutMail
.To = "myemail#email.com"
.CC = ""
.BCC = ""
.Subject = "This is the Subject line"
' Place your tables in the correct location of your html for the email
.HTMLBody = test(aPath) & RangetoHTML(rng1) & "<img src=" & "'" & sPath & "'" & "width=888; height=198>" & RangetoHTML(rng2) & test(bPath)
.Display
End With
On Error GoTo 0
With Application
.EnableEvents = True
.ScreenUpdating = True
End With
Set OutMail = Nothing
Set OutApp = Nothing
End Sub
Function ExportChart(sChartName As String)
' Export a selected chart as a picture
Const sSlash$ = "/"
Const sPicType$ = ".png"
Dim sPath$
Dim sBook$
Dim objChart As ChartObject
On Error Resume Next
' Test if there are even any embedded charts on the activesheet
' If not, let the user know
Set objChart = ActiveSheet.ChartObjects(1)
If objChart Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "No charts have been detected on this sheet", 0
Exit Function
End If
' Test if there is a single chart selected
If ActiveChart Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "You must select a single chart for exporting ", 0
Exit Function
End If
Start:
' chart is exported as a picture, Chart1.png in the same
' folder location as the workbook
sBook = ActiveWorkbook.path
sPath = sBook & sSlash & sChartName & sPicType
ActiveChart.Export Filename:=sPath, FilterName:="PNG"
With Application
.EnableEvents = False
.ScreenUpdating = False
End With
End Function
Function RangetoHTML(rng As range)
Dim fso As Object
Dim ts As Object
Dim TempFile As String
Dim TempWB As Workbook
TempFile = Environ$("temp") & "\" & Format(Now, "dd-mm-yy h-mm-ss") & ".htm"
'Copy the range and create a new workbook to past the data in
rng.Copy
Set TempWB = Workbooks.Add(1)
With TempWB.Sheets(1)
.Cells(1).PasteSpecial Paste:=8
.Cells(1).PasteSpecial xlPasteValues, , False, False
.Cells(1).PasteSpecial xlPasteFormats, , False, False
.Cells(1).Select
Application.CutCopyMode = False
On Error Resume Next
.DrawingObjects.Visible = True
.DrawingObjects.Delete
On Error GoTo 0
End With
'Publish the sheet to a htm file
With TempWB.PublishObjects.Add( _
SourceType:=xlSourceRange, _
Filename:=TempFile, _
Sheet:=TempWB.Sheets(1).Name, _
Source:=TempWB.Sheets(1).UsedRange.Address, _
HtmlType:=xlHtmlStatic)
.Publish (True)
End With
'Read all data from the htm file into RangetoHTML
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ts = fso.GetFile(TempFile).OpenAsTextStream(1, -2)
RangetoHTML = ts.ReadAll
ts.Close
RangetoHTML = Replace(RangetoHTML, "align=center x:publishsource=", _
"align=left x:publishsource=")
'Close TempWB
TempWB.Close savechanges:=False
'Delete the htm file we used in this function
Kill TempFile
Set ts = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
Set TempWB = Nothing
End Function
Function test(sPath As String)
'Returns a string after reading the contents of a given file
test = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(sPath).ReadAll()
End Function
Thanks for all of your help! :)