Sending Mail Fails When Using SendMail Sample Procedure

Metastorm

The information in this article applies to:

Product: Metastorm BPM
Version: 7.5.1.7

Issue

• Sending mail to an SMTP server or to a pickup folder fails when using the SendMail sample procedure with the Mail sample library.

  For example, when using the SendMail sample procedure, the user receives the error message Engine exception : Failed to refresh form. A warning message similar to the following is written to the Windows application event log:

  Failed to evaluate the following - (%IsBodyHTML:=( (%BodyType = "HTML") )); (%Results:=%ScriptEval(JScript.NET,,%Procedure.Name,%MapName,"Metastorm.Extensions.SendMail.Send", %Recipients, %CC, %BCC, %Sender, %Title, %Body,%IsBodyHTML, %Attachments,1, "win2k3", 25 )).

  An error message similar to the following is written to the eLog table (Designer Log):

  Unable to execute script entry point 'Metastorm.Extensions.SendMail.Send'. Reason 'Unable to execute method Error: String was not recognized as a valid Boolean.'. Procedure ScriptEval call failed. Position: 229

Resolution

• The JScript.NET function call in the sample procedure needs to be modified. The boolean values need to be changed from 0 and 1 to false and true, respectively.

  For example, the following code:

  %Results:=%ScriptEval(JScript.NET,,%Procedure.Name,%MapName,"Metastorm.Extensions.SendMail.Send", %Recipients, %CC, %BCC, %Sender, %Title, %Body, 0, %Attachments, 1, "localhost", 25)

  should be changed to:

  %Results:=%ScriptEval(JScript.NET,,%Procedure.Name,%MapName,"Metastorm.Extensions.SendMail.Send", %Recipients, %CC, %BCC, %Sender, %Title, %Body, false, %Attachments, true, "localhost", 25 )

• Note that this modified syntax will also work with previous versions of Metastorm BPM.