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SendMailPlugin Feedback and Development

Initial version posted. Thanks Hypertek Inc for sponsoring this work! Enjoy!

To do:

• Expand Config.spec
• Improve plugin docs
• Add VarSENDMAIL topic
• Explain difference to SendEmailPlugin

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-03-14

Perhaps you could note how to (if possible) embed this in a template (à la TopicCreatePlugin), so that you can send an email whenever a topic is created.

-- AaronLWalker - 2012-03-14

This should work. Untested example for template topic:

%STARTSECTION{ type="expandvariables" }%%SENDMAIL{ action="%NOP%send" ... }%%ENDSECTION{ type="expandvariables" }%

The NOP get removed at time of topic instantiation. If you confirm that this works I can update the docs accordingly.

Would a new excludetopic="MyTemplate" or disable="self" parameter be useful? If present, it would disable the send action for the specified topic.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-03-14

It looks like action="send" does not work. But excludetopic="MyTemplate" should work.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-03-15

New plugin version published: Added configure settings; added excludetopic parameter; added VarSENDMAIL doc; added examples.

Idea for enhancement: Add an action="save" to take e-mail action on topic save.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-03-15

In case it helps someone, in the "Send E-mail on Topic Creation" example, I wanted to put in the email some form fields of the new topic I'm creating, but they aren't quite available yet, so FORMFIELD does not work. URLPARAM, however, does!

 text="%WIKINAME% created a new topic
       URL:   %SCRIPTURL{"view"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%
       Desc:  %URLPARAM{"EventDescription"}%
       Start: %URLPARAM{"TargetStartDate"}% %URLPARAM{"TargetStartTime"}%
       End:   %URLPARAM{"TargetEndDate"}% %URLPARAM{"TargetEndTime"}%
       RIN:   %URLPARAM{"RelatedIncidentNumber"}% "

-- Aaron Walker - 2015-01-14

Thanks Aaron, I updated the plugin with relevant docs.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-01-23