topic Re: dynamic email recipient assignment in Alfresco Archive

dynamic email recipient assignment

darioruizlopez — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:30:14 GMT

Hallo to everybody.I need to send an email to a group/s of users whenever a document enters into a folder. I have created a rule in Alfresco to do so by sending emails to fixed, predefined groups. But the problem arises when the groups are not known at design time. In my case, the different groups a

Re: dynamic email recipient assignment

zaizi — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:42:31 GMT

You can create a web script which takes the group name and document as arguments (reusing the javascript from the content rule). You can then just call this webscript once look up the group name and document.

Re: dynamic email recipient assignment

darioruizlopez — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:59:51 GMT

Thank you very much.

I do not really have a javascript for sending the emails. The emails are sent via a content rule.

Finally I have just managed to access the email sending rule by writing a script which navigates through the node tree to the rule node and its parameter nodes. Modifying the parameter node causes the rule to be updated. The problem is that, because this way of accessing the rule is not documented in Alfresco I have no warranty that I will not become inoperative with time.

Re: dynamic email recipient assignment

darioruizlopez — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:58:10 GMT

Because I believe that this topic might be useful for other users, here is the solution that I have finally used for this topic.

As an input constraint, I have named all of my notification rules to be reassigned to start with the prefix "Notify".

This done, I have travelled through the tree node of the workspace and its children looking for those nodes which correspond to system rules which refers to actions whose name starts with "Notify". This done, I have travelled through these nodes to locate the parameter named "to_many" and changed it to my new list of recipients. But, beware! the recipients are stored as a string for a single value and as a collection for several values. After this, all that is needed is to save the affected node, and we have the proper rule with the recipients reassigned