How to send email to assignee in datalist when assigned

[zhixiong86]

I'm using Alfresco Community v4.0d on a Windows 2008 RC2 Datacenter.

Does anyone knows how I can script or make alfresco send out emails to when someone tag an users as assignee in issue list(datalist)

I've read up https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=35586 , but I'm not sure where to put this piece of code in.

Help is greatly appreciated.

[scouil]

Hello,

When you browse the repository with Share you can access:
company home > Sites > [YourSite] > dataLists > [YouList]

Choose "+ More…" > "Manage Rules"
There you can create a rule with some conditions triggering some actions.

In your case I don't think the default "send email" action will enable you to complete your task since the person receiving the email have to be chosen dynamically.
So you might want to write your custom script for that. Or maybe someone in the community already developed one.

Good luck,

[mrogers]

You are probably better off using workflow if you want to do things like sending email.

The data list task list is perhaps a poor choice of an example.   It's fine as an example of a list, but very quickly people want to do more than is possible for a list item.