hard coding comments to email

ttriemst

Good Afternoon,

I have a job that is working great, but I would like to send another email (the workflow already sends one email) to a specific user. I would like the email to have a hard coded link in it, and it will never change. I have been doing some checking in the Workflow Developers Guide, but am not able to find what I need. I did some checking around in the developers forum and have not had any luck. The following is what I have so far:

<!-- =================== Update Notification ==================== -->
<externaltask name="UpdateUsers"
owner="__TAG__('iw_user');"
description="Template Deployed">

<areavpath v="__INSERT__($areavpath);"/>
<successors>
<successorset description = "The template was deployed">
<succ v="end"/>
</successorset>
</successors>
__INSERT__(get_mail_cmd("$iwhome", 'xxxxxxx@xxxx.com'));
</externaltask>

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks

Dwayne

I believe that you can add the following variables to your task definition to override the default values for the generated email

Task Variable Corresponding flag Meaning
mail_html -H send mail as HTML
mail_taskname -N taskname target task name
mail_message_file -b filename file which contains the body of the email message
mail_cc -c user user to get a CC: of the message
mail_error -e tell workflow engine of any errors (CallBack of 1)
mail_from -f user who should this message be from?
mail_message -m "message body" the actual body of the message (use this OR -b, not both)
mail_subject -s "subject" the subject of the email
mail_to -t recipient who should get the email
mail_url -u Add URL references even if not in HTML mode

This is from TS 6.1, but I believe most, if not all, of these worked in earlier versions as well (perhaps not -e).

So, in your example, you could do something like this, if your mail message were stored in a file named c:\iw-home\local\config\mailmessage.txt:

<!-- =================== Update Notification ==================== -->
<externaltask name="UpdateUsers"
owner="__TAG__('iw_user');"
description="Template Deployed">

<areavpath v="__INSERT__($areavpath);"/>
<successors>
<successorset description = "The template was deployed">
<succ v="end"/>
</successorset>
</successors>
__INSERT__(get_mail_cmd("$iwhome", 'xxxxxxx@xxxx.com'));
<variables>
<variable key="mail_message_file" value="c:/iw-home/local/config/mailmessage.txt" />
</variables>
</externaltask>


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