nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

As we transition to the new Hyland Community, some post links may be temporarily disrupted as we finalize redirects. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to resolve this as quickly as possible. Details.

sending an email via website

idiotsguide

Hi everyone,

I have built a website around my alfresco system (4.0), using the quickstart as my base, but I'm working on a contact us form and having a problem. I have created a simple form in my contactus.get.html.ftl file, and i've created a contactus.post.js file. In here I want to email myself to notify me that someone has filled out the form. I've been looking around all the documentation, etc and came across this….

var mail = actions.create("mail");
mail.parameters.to = "me@me.com";
mail.parameters.subject = "Someone has used the contact us form";
mail.parameters.from = "website@thewebsite.com";
mail.parameters.text = "All good";
mail.execute();

Which I have been trying to get working but this is what I get when the script runs..
Failed to execute script 'org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.ResourceStore$WebApplicationStoreScriptContent@2080bcd8': 04200010 ReferenceError: "actions" is not defined.

Am I completely on the wrong track here? (Just when I thought I was getting my head around Alfresco!).
I'd be most grateful if anyone could help.

Thanks.

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

amandaluniz_z

That looks fine to me…. Let me give it a try

amandaluniz_z

just tested it and it works for me…

idiotsguide

Thanks for looking amandaluniz_z,
I'm still getting the same error. I don't suppose I need to expose the "actions" to my webscript in any way do I?
It's a standard installation that's been done, so I'm pulling my hair out now! I just can't see what i'm missing.

Thanks again.

amandaluniz_z

No you don't… the 'actions' object is available there…

Is that everything you have in your javascript file?

mrogers

Are you running your code on a server side webscript or are you in a WQS context. If WQS then you won't have any repository services like the action service available.

idiotsguide

Hi Guys,
Sorry, my knowledge of alfresco is quite limited, I'm very much still learning.
Yes, that is pretty much all I have in my webscript, but to be honest I'm not sure if it runs server side or client side. I assumed server side.
Like I said, i'm just changing the standard quickstart website, so I'm modifying the contactus.get.html.ftl, etc that are already in the webscripts/ folders.

Thanks for your help so far.

idiotsguide

Hi mrogers,
Just re-read your reply.
I do have access to things like remote.connect, etc as I've been using them, so I have (maybe mistakenly) assume that is was server side.
I do have this code in the post.js rather than the get.js, would that make a difference?

Thanks again

idiotsguide

I don't suppose anyone else could help?
I'm now wondering if I'm totally barking up the wrong tree, but it does seem like a simple thing to want to do. I just want to send an email out from the wcmq website on a form submit. Does anyone else have any suggestions on how to do that?

Thanks

amandaluniz_z

You're creating the webscript in a wcmqs site… You don't have the email send capability there…

What you could do is write a webscript in alfresco that sends the email using the "actions" root object and the passed parameters from the wcmqs site and send the email from Alfresco.

Adei

idiotsguide

Hi amandaluniz
Thanks for the reply.

Yes, i did start to wonder if I needed to do something like that.
I can write a webscript in alfresco but how would I call that webscript from the wcmqs site? (sorry, my knowledge is increasing daily but there are still many mysteries to alfresco for me).
Thanks again for you help.

amandaluniz_z

you can use the remote connector you were talking about in previous posts

amandaluniz_z

Something like:

var connector = remote.connect("alfresco");
var data = connector.get("/send/email?to=….");
‍‍‍‍

An easy way, I guess you could also do a post…

Adei

idiotsguide

Hi Adei

All becomes clear!!!
Thank you very much, think I would have gone slightly mad if it wasn't for your posts.
I'm well on my way now, so thanks again.

amandaluniz_z

Remember you'll need to create the alfresco webscript that matches the /send/email/… url

michaelc

Ok so in Repository> Data Dictionary> Web Scripts> org> alfresco
I created a folder test.
in the folder I created mail.get.desc.xml

 
<webscript>
  <shortname>mail</shortname>
  <description>Test mail program to send an email</description>
  <url>/test/mail</url>
  <format default="html">argument</format>
  <authentication>guest</authentication>
  <transaction>required</transaction>
</webscript>
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

JS mail.get.js
var mail = actions.create("mail");
mail.parameters.to = "michael.c.ford@email.com";
mail.parameters.subject = "Someone has used the contact us form";
mail.parameters.from = "michael.c.ford@email.com";
mail.parameters.text = "All good";
mail.execute();

Find the service in the service catalog ( yaaaaaa )
try to run it /alfresco/service/test/mail

and it fails 500 can't find execute on line 6.
org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException - Can't find method org.alfresco.repo.jscript.ScriptAction.execute(). (workspace://SpacesStore/Company Home/Data Dictionary/Web Scripts/org/alfresco/test/mail.get.js#6)

seems pretty simple what did I miss ?

kaynezhang

According to definition of ScriptAction's execute(ScriptNode node) method, you should provide a ScriptNode parameter to it.

michaelc

Ok what I learned.
wcmqs does not have a connector alfresco, there is one alfresco-webscripts but if you changed ports it still needs to be modified. ( in surf.xml )

 
    <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Remote">
        <remote>
            <endpoint>
                <id>alfresco-webscripts</id>
                <name>Alfresco Webscripts</name>
                <connector-id>http</connector-id>
                <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service</endpoint-url>
                <identity>declared</identity>
                <username>admin</username>
                <password>******</password>
            </endpoint>
            <endpoint>
                <id>alfresco</id>
                <name>Alfresco Webscripts</name>
                <connector-id>http</connector-id>
                <endpoint-url>http://localhost/alfresco/service</endpoint-url>
                <identity>declared</identity>
                <username>admin</username>
                <password>****</password>
            </endpoint>
        </remote>
    </config>
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

need to escape to pass the parameters ( should be a better way )
write.post.js

      // webSite.ugcService.postFeedback(assetId, name, email, website, type, subject, comment, 0);
      var conn = remote.connect('alfresco');
      var passString = '/test/mail?name=';
      passString = passString + escape(name); 
      passString = passString + '&email=' + escape(email); 
      passString = passString + '&subject=' + escape(subject); 
      passString = passString + '&comment=' + escape(comment); 
      var result = conn.call(passString); 
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

To pass items to the template it needs to be an array in an array.

 

     var node = people.getGroup("GROUP_Contact");  
     if(node){
        var members = people.getMembers(node);        //Get everyone who should know  

      for each (usr in members){
         if (usr == null &&  usr.properties["cm:email"] != null)
           {
             model.result = "No user or email address – mail not sent";
           }
        else
          {
 
            var mail = actions.create("mail"); 
            var templateArgs = new Array();
                    templateArgs['username'] = usr.properties["cm:firstName"]  + " "  +  usr.properties["cm:lastName"] ;
                    templateArgs['name'] = args.name;
                    templateArgs['subject'] = args.subject;             
                    templateArgs['comment'] = args.comment;
                    templateArgs['email'] = args.email;         

            var templateModel = new Array();
                   templateModel['args'] = templateArgs;

            mail.parameters.template_model = templateModel ;
            mail.parameters.template = companyhome.childByNamePath("Data Dictionary/Web Scripts/org/alfresco/test/userdetailsmail.ftl");  

            mail.parameters.to = usr.properties["cm:email"]; 
            mail.parameters.subject = args.subject; 
            mail.parameters.from = 'system@kp.org';            
            mail.execute(usr);    
           model.result = "Email sent to user " + usr.properties["cm:firstName"] + " " + usr.properties["cm:lastName"];          
         }
      }
     }else{
        model.result = "group not found";
     }
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Hope this helps the next one to find this note.