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How to add an attachments in the Email Task

shivakumar1 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:25:33 GMT

Hi All,I have a requirement which requires an attachment in the email, is there any way to add attachment using email task.Can anyone suggest me, how to achieve this requirement.

Re: How to add an attachments in the Email Task

sathish1 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:13:57 GMT

Hmm not sure if this would be possible. My understanding is framework uses field injection for populating mail task information. So it can allow Strings and other EL expressions. But would be curious.
Quick solution for mail attachment is, host a https link in the mail body and parameterize it so that only users with secured access and variables only access it., Cheers.

Re: How to add an attachments in the Email Task

martin_grofcik — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:31:29 GMT

Hi,

is there any way to add attachment using email task.

Activiti's email task does not support attachments.

You can extend email task implementation to support attachments. (I would say that in your case e-mail sending should be asynchronous - can be time consuming)

Regards
Martin

Re: How to add an attachments in the Email Task

shivakumar1 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:22:01 GMT

Hi All,

I'm using activiti-explorer for designing bpm files.
As per @martin suggestion i have written my custom class which extends the MailActivityBehavior .
Configured service task and added extension elements by using class fields in the activit-explorer.
I'm able to send the email with attachment,but the body of the email is giving raw html code.

for an example i have configured the html element with
"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">"
When i export the bpm file i'm getting replaced as the below code
"&amp ; lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN&quot; &amp ; "
which is causing email to print the raw hmtl code.
For quick solution i changed the bpm file and exported it with appropriate html code, i'm able to get the proper mail content.

Can you please suggest me how to overcome this issue, i need to give the editable email contents from activiti-explorer for the client implementation teams.

Re: How to add an attachments in the Email Task

shivakumar1 — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:23:38 GMT

Can any one please suggest me how to overcome the raw html code in the email.

Re: How to add an attachments in the Email Task

jbarrez — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:01:06 GMT

wrap it in CDATA … would be the normal XML approach … ?

Re: How to add an attachments in the Email Task

shivakumar1 — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:39:36 GMT

@jbarrez can you please guide me how to use CDATA.

Re: How to add an attachments in the Email Task

shivakumar1 — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:20:55 GMT

can you give me example to use CDATA.

Re: How to add an attachments in the Email Task

trademak — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:39:11 GMT

Please use google for this. It's basic XML knowledge.

Best regards,

Re: How to add an attachments in the Email Task

ankith_k — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:46:32 GMT

shivakumar _‌ Can you please share your code as to how you implemented custom email activity for attachments?

Thanks in advance

Ankith Kumar K