topic Re: Workflow notification email in Alfresco Archive

Workflow notification email

outlandish — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:09:21 GMT

I am a new Alfresco developer. I would like to change the default email that is sent to the assignee when they are assigned a task. I would like to add the name of the document that needs to be reviewed to the subject line. The file that needs to be edited is the notification-services.properties fil

Re: Workflow notification email

afaust — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:39:18 GMT

Hello,

you can't add the document name in the .properties file. You can only insert a placeholder, e.g. like this:

message.searchingFor=Searching for "{0}"…‍

In order for the name of the document to be inserted into the subject, you need to adapt the code that generates the subject line, so it passes the required value into the message.

Regards
Axel

Re: Workflow notification email

outlandish — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:47:22 GMT

I solved the issue by editing the WorkflowNotificationUtils.java file.

I captured document name and assignee name into strings:

String assignee = "";
   String fileName = "";

   //put all document names in string fileName
   if (workflowPackage != null)
   {
      List<ChildAssociationRef> children = services.getNodeService().getChildAssocs(workflowPackage);
      for (ChildAssociationRef childAssoc : children) {
         
         NodeRef childNodeRef = childAssoc.getChildRef();
         fileName = fileName + (String) services.getNodeService().getProperty(childNodeRef, ContentModel.PROP_NAME) + ", ";
      }
      fileName = fileName.substring(0, fileName.length() - 2);
   }
      
   //get assignee name
   for (String assignedAuthority : assignedAuthorites)
   {
      assignee = assignee + assignedAuthority;
   }

   NodeRef p = services.getPersonService().getPerson(assignee);
        if (p != null)
        {
            assignee = (String) services.getNodeService().getProperty(p, ContentModel.PROP_FIRSTNAME);
        }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I then added the document name to the subject line directly. And the assignee name into templateArgs after that I was able to call it in wf-email.html.ftl.


subject = "Needs approval - " + fileName;
——————————————————————-
templateArgs.put(ARG_ASSIGNEE, assignee);‍‍‍‍

Please advice if there is a better way to do this. Thank you.