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How do we use the new MailActivityBehavior with attachments?

ms1 — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:13:09 GMT

Hello All,I looked at the source code on github for MailActivityBehavior and see that attachments are now implemented.https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/master/modules/activiti-engine/src/main/java/org/activiti/engine/impl/bpmn/behavior/MailActivityBehavior.javaHow can I incorporate this into

Re: How do we use the new MailActivityBehavior with attachments?

vasile_dirla — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 07:47:08 GMT

Hello,

this is how you could use attachments:
<code>
<sendTask id="sendMail" activiti:type="mail">
      <extensionElements>
        <activiti:field name="to">
          <activiti:string>kermit@activiti.org</activiti:string>
        </activiti:field>
        <activiti:field name="subject">
          <activiti:string>Hello Kermit!</activiti:string>
        </activiti:field>
        <activiti:field name="text">
          <activiti:string>This a text only e-mail.</activiti:string>
        </activiti:field>
        <activiti:field name="html">
          <activiti:expression>
            <![CDATA[
              <html>
                <body>
                  Hello ${(gender.equals('male')) ? 'Mr.' : 'Mrs.'} <b>Kermit</b>
                </body>
              </html>
            ]]>
          </activiti:expression>
        </activiti:field>
        <activiti:field name="attachments">
          <activiti:expression>#{attachmentsBean.getFile()}</activiti:expression>
        </activiti:field>
      </extensionElements>
    </sendTask>

<code>

Re: How do we use the new MailActivityBehavior with attachments?

ms1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:30:37 GMT

Thanks. This is a pretty straightforward way to do it and it works! I like that the email is still defined in the process diagram … even though this part gets added by hand for now. The only caveat is that expression should use $ instead of #.

I even made a change to my email task in the Eclipse diagram editor and it kept the attachment piece on save. So, this looks pretty solid.

Thanks again for this. It was a big help.