Manual:Extension/Workflows/Activity/SendMail

Description

The SendMail activity is a very generic activity. It is meant to send a report via mail after an action has been completed. This could be done after voting, but may also concern other activities in future, for example.

Following a quick overview:

Short profile
Name	SendMail
Async	No
Input/form	-
Associated to	Approval Workflows, Collect Feedback Workflows
BPMN type	bpmn:Task

Properties

Input

Name of property	Source	Description	Type	Action
assigned_user	UserVote	Name of the user, who casted the vote	string	collect
comment	UserVote	Comment of the user	string	collect
vote	UserVote	Result of the voting (values: YES, NO)	string	collect
reportrecipient	CollectData	Mailadress of the user who was specified to receive an email after the workflow is finished	string	collect
timestamp		Timestamp of the date when mail is sent	timestamp	display
timestamp		Timestamp of the voting	timestamp	display
username		Name of the user, who casted a vote	string	display
groupname		Name of the group, who casted a vote	string	display
vote		Result of the voting	boolean / string	display
comment		Comment of the user concerning a wikipage	string	display
format		Allows to include html syntax in the body of the email (values:plaintext, html)	string

Property "format"

An example with differently formatted links to wiki pages when the property "format" has the value html:

		<bpmn:task id="SendMail" name="send-mail">
			<bpmn:extensionElements>
				<wf:type>send_mail</wf:type>
			</bpmn:extensionElements>
			<bpmn:property name="recipient" default="{{{CollectData.reportrecipient}}}"/>
			<bpmn:property name="subject">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</bpmn:property>
			<bpmn:property name="format">html</bpmn:property>
			<bpmn:property name="body">
			
			<![CDATA[
               Example 1: <a href="https://mywiki.com/wiki/Testseite">Testseite</a><br>
               Example 2: <a href="{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}}">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</a><br>
               Example 3: <a href="{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}}">{{#titleparts:{{PAGENAMEE}}| | -1 }}</a> 
            ]]>
             
				</bpmn:property>
			<bpmn:incoming>FromUserFeedbackToSendMail</bpmn:incoming>
			<bpmn:outgoing>FromSendMailToTheEnd</bpmn:outgoing>
		</bpmn:task>

Output

Name of property	Source	Description	Type	Action
subject	SendMail	Subject of the mail incl. corresponding wikipage affected by previous activity	string	display
body	SendMail	Standardized text in a mail, which includes the name of the user who casted the vote a comment, which was left by the user the voting result	string	display

Extension elements

Name of extension element	Description	Type
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