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sending an email via website

idiotsguide — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:43:28 GMT

Hi everyone,I have built a website around my alfresco system (4.0), using the quickstart as my base, but I'm working on a contact us form and having a problem. I have created a simple form in my contactus.get.html.ftl file, and i've created a contactus.post.js file. In here I want to email myself to

Re: sending an email via website

amandaluniz_z — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:53:49 GMT

That looks fine to me…. Let me give it a try

Re: sending an email via website

amandaluniz_z — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:05:44 GMT

just tested it and it works for me…

Re: sending an email via website

idiotsguide — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:54:47 GMT

Thanks for looking amandaluniz_z,
I'm still getting the same error. I don't suppose I need to expose the "actions" to my webscript in any way do I?
It's a standard installation that's been done, so I'm pulling my hair out now! I just can't see what i'm missing.

Thanks again.

Re: sending an email via website

amandaluniz_z — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:36:37 GMT

No you don't… the 'actions' object is available there…

Is that everything you have in your javascript file?

Re: sending an email via website

mrogers — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:17:17 GMT

Are you running your code on a server side webscript or are you in a WQS context. If WQS then you won't have any repository services like the action service available.

Re: sending an email via website

idiotsguide — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:58:14 GMT

Hi Guys,
Sorry, my knowledge of alfresco is quite limited, I'm very much still learning.
Yes, that is pretty much all I have in my webscript, but to be honest I'm not sure if it runs server side or client side. I assumed server side.
Like I said, i'm just changing the standard quickstart website, so I'm modifying the contactus.get.html.ftl, etc that are already in the webscripts/ folders.

Thanks for your help so far.

Re: sending an email via website

idiotsguide — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:07:20 GMT

Hi mrogers,
Just re-read your reply.
I do have access to things like remote.connect, etc as I've been using them, so I have (maybe mistakenly) assume that is was server side.
I do have this code in the post.js rather than the get.js, would that make a difference?

Thanks again

Re: sending an email via website

idiotsguide — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:07:24 GMT

I don't suppose anyone else could help?
I'm now wondering if I'm totally barking up the wrong tree, but it does seem like a simple thing to want to do. I just want to send an email out from the wcmq website on a form submit. Does anyone else have any suggestions on how to do that?

Thanks

Re: sending an email via website

amandaluniz_z — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:17:21 GMT

You're creating the webscript in a wcmqs site… You don't have the email send capability there…

What you could do is write a webscript in alfresco that sends the email using the "actions" root object and the passed parameters from the wcmqs site and send the email from Alfresco.

Adei

Re: sending an email via website

idiotsguide — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:24:26 GMT

Hi amandaluniz
Thanks for the reply.

Yes, i did start to wonder if I needed to do something like that.
I can write a webscript in alfresco but how would I call that webscript from the wcmqs site? (sorry, my knowledge is increasing daily but there are still many mysteries to alfresco for me).
Thanks again for you help.

Re: sending an email via website

amandaluniz_z — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:43:29 GMT

you can use the remote connector you were talking about in previous posts

Re: sending an email via website

amandaluniz_z — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:47:08 GMT

Something like:


var connector = remote.connect("alfresco");
var data = connector.get("/send/email?to=….");
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An easy way, I guess you could also do a post…

Adei

Re: sending an email via website

idiotsguide — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:48:55 GMT

Hi Adei

All becomes clear!!!
Thank you very much, think I would have gone slightly mad if it wasn't for your posts.
I'm well on my way now, so thanks again.

Re: sending an email via website

amandaluniz_z — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:51:47 GMT

Remember you'll need to create the alfresco webscript that matches the /send/email/… url

Re: sending an email via website

michaelc — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:58:00 GMT

Ok so in Repository> Data Dictionary> Web Scripts> org> alfresco
I created a folder test.
in the folder I created mail.get.desc.xml

 
<webscript>
  <shortname>mail</shortname>
  <description>Test mail program to send an email</description>
  <url>/test/mail</url>
  <format default="html">argument</format>
  <authentication>guest</authentication>
  <transaction>required</transaction>
</webscript>
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JS mail.get.js
var mail = actions.create("mail");
mail.parameters.to = "michael.c.ford@email.com";
mail.parameters.subject = "Someone has used the contact us form";
mail.parameters.from = "michael.c.ford@email.com";
mail.parameters.text = "All good";
mail.execute();

Find the service in the service catalog ( yaaaaaa )
try to run it /alfresco/service/test/mail

and it fails 500 can't find execute on line 6.
org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException - Can't find method org.alfresco.repo.jscript.ScriptAction.execute(). (workspace://SpacesStore/Company Home/Data Dictionary/Web Scripts/org/alfresco/test/mail.get.js#6)

seems pretty simple what did I miss ?

Re: sending an email via website

kaynezhang — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:50:00 GMT

According to definition of ScriptAction's execute(ScriptNode node) method, you should provide a ScriptNode parameter to it.

Re: sending an email via website

michaelc — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 22:44:00 GMT

Ok what I learned.
wcmqs does not have a connector alfresco, there is one alfresco-webscripts but if you changed ports it still needs to be modified. ( in surf.xml )

 
    <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Remote">
        <remote>
            <endpoint>
                <id>alfresco-webscripts</id>
                <name>Alfresco Webscripts</name>
                <connector-id>http</connector-id>
                <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service</endpoint-url>
                <identity>declared</identity>
                <username>admin</username>
                <password>******</password>
            </endpoint>
            <endpoint>
                <id>alfresco</id>
                <name>Alfresco Webscripts</name>
                <connector-id>http</connector-id>
                <endpoint-url>http://localhost/alfresco/service</endpoint-url>
                <identity>declared</identity>
                <username>admin</username>
                <password>****</password>
            </endpoint>
        </remote>
    </config>
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need to escape to pass the parameters ( should be a better way )
write.post.js


      // webSite.ugcService.postFeedback(assetId, name, email, website, type, subject, comment, 0);
      var conn = remote.connect('alfresco');
      var passString = '/test/mail?name=';
      passString = passString + escape(name); 
      passString = passString + '&email=' + escape(email); 
      passString = passString + '&subject=' + escape(subject); 
      passString = passString + '&comment=' + escape(comment); 
      var result = conn.call(passString); 
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To pass items to the template it needs to be an array in an array.

 

     var node = people.getGroup("GROUP_Contact");  
     if(node){
        var members = people.getMembers(node);        //Get everyone who should know  

      for each (usr in members){
         if (usr == null &&  usr.properties["cm:email"] != null)
           {
             model.result = "No user or email address – mail not sent";
           }
        else
          {
 
            var mail = actions.create("mail"); 
            var templateArgs = new Array();
                    templateArgs['username'] = usr.properties["cm:firstName"]  + " "  +  usr.properties["cm:lastName"] ;
                    templateArgs['name'] = args.name;
                    templateArgs['subject'] = args.subject;             
                    templateArgs['comment'] = args.comment;
                    templateArgs['email'] = args.email;         

            var templateModel = new Array();
                   templateModel['args'] = templateArgs;

            mail.parameters.template_model = templateModel ;
            mail.parameters.template = companyhome.childByNamePath("Data Dictionary/Web Scripts/org/alfresco/test/userdetailsmail.ftl");  

            mail.parameters.to = usr.properties["cm:email"]; 
            mail.parameters.subject = args.subject; 
            mail.parameters.from = 'system@kp.org';            
            mail.execute(usr);    
           model.result = "Email sent to user " + usr.properties["cm:firstName"] + " " + usr.properties["cm:lastName"];          
         }
      }
     }else{
        model.result = "group not found";
     }
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