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Sending Email notification to all without loop

quasar — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:35:35 GMT

Hi all!I've added some email notification functionality to WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\workflow\parallelreview_processdefinition.xmlThis works fine with a few assignees but if the number of assignees is more than 10 this loop slows down significantly. I've got an idea which is to collect all the email

Re: Sending Email notification to all without loop

quasar — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:13:50 GMT

Are there any ideas? Actually there is no any scripting manuals.

Re: Sending Email notification to all without loop

msvoren — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:51:27 GMT

Not sure what you trying to do here, but i guess you assign a task to a group of people. So, you can loop that group in js and send email to each one of them.
Here's an example:


      var gr_members = people.getMembers(group);
      for (var i=0; i < gr_members.length; i++ ) 
      {
         var mail = actions.create("mail");
         mail.parameters.to = gr_members[i].properties.email;
         mail.parameters.subject = subject;
         mail.parameters.from = "alfresco";
         mail.parameters.text = "Document is waiting for your response on Alfresco";
         mail.execute(bpm_package);
         logger.log("Email was sent to " + gr_members[i].properties.userName + ".");
      }
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Re: Sending Email notification to all without loop

quasar — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:54:58 GMT

Thank you for your answer! But I'm doing the same thing you described. This approach is very slow if the number of people in group more than 10! I want to collect all email addresses into one string by looping thru bpm_assignees and then send email once only. This should be much faster than sending email to every person. I'm wondering how to implement it. Any ideas?

Re: Sending Email notification to all without loop

mrogers — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:00:28 GMT

The mail action can send to a list of people. Have a look at the code for the MailActionExecutor for the properties to set, from memory its something like SEND_MANY.

Re: Sending Email notification to all without loop

quasar — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:58:26 GMT

Thank you!
I've found the MailActionExecuter class but there're no any examples.
Could you post snippets of code?