Use <details> tag for better readability of error message

[handyguysoftware]

Use

tag for better readability of error message

from dupreport.

[HandyGuySoftware]

Interesting. It doesn't seem compatible with I.E. or Edge, but that's not a show-stopper. I'm wondering if this will work from the HTML engine inside of email clients like Outlook, or only works directly from a browser like Chrome or Safari.

If you are using an email client, we can test this by updating the code a bit. In dupReport.py, Change line 694 to read:

msgHtml = '{}<td align="center" colspan = "11"><details><summary>Error/Warning Message</summary><p><i>{}{}</i></p></details></td>'.format(msgHtml, txt[0], txt[1])

That will tell us if it works inside an email client. I'll try this as well, but I won't be able to work on it until later tonight.

[mr-flibble]

Thank you for looking at it so fast! :)

I found this:

• Outlook 2016 - not Working
• Exchange 2013 OWA in Chrome - not Working
• Gmail in Chrome (message fwd from outlook) - Not Working

But If I save message body as html file and open it in Chrome - it Works ! :-)

Sadly "details" is on unofficial unsupported list of tags in gmail - so maybe situation will be same in other email clients.
https://quip.com/aO0pAZO9m9SG

So I'm sorry -I should have done better research :/
I had no idea that email clients are artificially blocking HTML 5 content

EDIT

• Thunderbird 52 (Windows 10) - WORKED
• Nine mail (Android 7) - didn't work
• Gmail with dupReport as html attachment (opening embedded in gmail on ) - didn't work

[dcurrey]

Nice!

Got the following. results.

Horde Webmail - didn't work
Roundcube webmail - didn't work
Outlook.com - didn't work
Sogo webmail - WORKED (but not with edge)
Whatever the default email client is on Samsungs phones is - WORKED
Thunderbird client - WORKED (linux)
Kmail client - WORKED (linux)

tested the webmails in vivaldi slimjet palemoon and edge all win10, Also tested firefox kubuntu 17.10

If it didn't work the message would just expand as normal.

[HandyGuySoftware]

@dcurrey , you have waaaaayyyy too many email clients to deal with! :-)

So it looks like it's hit or miss as to whether the <details> tag works. FYI, in 2.1 there is a feature to output the report to an HTML file (as well as text and CSV), so it should work for displaying that file if the browser supports it.

I suppose there is no harm in including the tag in case it is supported in the target software. There is a .rc file option to show/hide messages/warnings/errors altogether, so that will counterbalance the <details> tag if it's not supported. I'm trying to finalize/stabilize the 2.1 code soon, but I'll try to sneak this in.

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[HandyGuySoftware]

Added to 2.1 code.