I attempted to followed Ksar's steps (dubiously, as I haven't touched real java, only js up till now) and came up with this -// set the from address
String fromActualUser = null;
if (fromPerson != null)
{
fromActualUser = (String) nodeService.getProperty(fromPerson, ContentModel.PROP_EMAIL);
}
String from = (String)ruleAction.getParameterValue(PARAM_FROM);
if (from == null || from.length() == 0)
{
if (fromActualUser != null && fromActualUser.length() != 0)
{
message.setFrom(fromActualUser);
}
else
{
message.setFrom(fromAddress);
}
else
{
message.setFrom(from);
}
}
which, to me at least, seems like the logic this should have been following in the first place (although I am sure there is a reasoning behind the way it works that is beyond my own grok)Essentially, the logic is as follows-Is the action initiated by a user?
If so, get the users email address.
Was a from address not set manually by this script?
If so, did we get a user above who had an email address?
If so, use that address
If not, use the default from address
If not (ie there was a from address set manually) use that
Or, to put it differently-
Prefer to use a manually set from address from the script if it exists (why would it be set manually if not to be used?)
If that is lacking, try to get the initiating users email address and use that
if it wasn't a normal user who initiated it, or it was and they have no email address, use the default (fallback)
But I am not sure how to get this into class files. I found the .java file in the 4.0.d sdk to edit, I copied it into a newly created java project in Eclipse, creating it as a new package file. I chose file>export and exported as a jar, but when I unloaded the jar it only made 2 .class files, and popped a bunch of errors (I had no idea what was meant by setting references to the .jar files used and I believe this is what the errors referenced). I infer it has something to do with the import statements at the beginning of the file, but do not know what I should change them to.I next created another new project, copied the entire src folder from the SDK into it as and made my changes just to the MailActionExecutor.java file in it, but when I tried to export it the button was disabled, I felt I needed to select more than the src folder to be exported but that was all it gave me under my project and would not drill down any further.Is anyone able to give any direction on how to get these code changes into alfresco? If not, does anyone know when the from.enabled parameter I have seen in JIRA will show up in community? It seems odd that for so many versions there has been a from parameter in the mail action which is essentially useless!
