Attach a document into an email

[mvicidomini]

Hello all,

i would like to attach a document when it is uploaded to alfresco. I know that there is the default notification from the workflow but for internal reason my customers ask me to attach the original document into an email. I have writen a small script but i don't manage to attach the document does somebody has a solution thanks a lot.

var mail = actions.create("mail");
var docName = document.properties["name"];
var siteShortName = document.siteShortName;
//var mySite = getSite(shortName);
var prop = document.properties["nodeRef"]
mail.parameters.to = "MY EMAIL";
mail.parameters.subject = "Ajout de document";
mail.parameters.from = "MY EMAIL";
mail.parameters.text = "Ajout du document " + docName + "Sur le site: "+siteShortName+" Projet : "+space.name ;
mail.execute(document);

[mvicidomini]

Does not work , it is still looping

[rjohnson]

Does it repeatedly email the same thing?

[mvicidomini]

Yes unfortunatly

[rjohnson]

Can you try using the standard mail object and just mail yourself a message. If that loops its a problem with the rule trigger. If not then its something to do with the fg-mail object but I cannot think what as near enough I do exactly what you are trying to do and it works fine for me.

[mvicidomini]

Hello,

i have already try with the simple email notification and it work fine. Maybe it is a problem with my script ….

Do you have any advise ?

Thanks

[rjohnson]

Honestly your script looks fine, and I do more or less the same thing as you and it works well for me. The difference is that I look for specific document types and only email PDF's of those whereas I assume you will email a PDF for any document type.

I can only assume that the creation of the rendition is causing the script to trigger over and over and the document type of the rendition is not cmdfExport - it may well be cm:content in which case a PDF rendition and your original document will be indistingushable.

One thing to try would be this

replace

var renditionDef = renditionService.createRenditionDefinition('cm:'+document.name, 'reformat');
renditionDef.parameters['mime-type'] = "application/pdf";
var pdfFile = renditionService.render(document, renditionDef);
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with

var pdfFile = document.transformDocument("application/pdf", userhome);
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This will create the PDF document in userhome which (I presume) is not covered by your rule (if it is create the PDF somewhere that isn't).

If that doesn't work I am at a loss, but please let me know as I will test it on my own installation and figure it out because this is important to me.

[mvicidomini]

Still looping, but the thing i that if i do not apply the rule the the subfolder it works fine. As soon as i apply it on the subfolders it is at this moment that the mail sending is looping.

thanks again for all your time.

[rjohnson]

Well, it sounds like somethings hapening in your sub folders. Do you have any other rules?

[mvicidomini]

Nothing, it is a fresh install …

[mvicidomini]

I found the mistake, it is link to

var PubDate = document.properties["cm:created"];
document.properties["cmublicationDate"] = PubDate;
document.save();

Because as soon as i removed it the mail stop looping but i cannot retrieve the file to attach to the email anymore.
So , how can i retrieve the referenc of the document that has just been added 

Thanks again