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martom.ipcc

Dynamic email body based on variable in form

Hi,

Our client uses Orbeon with email funcionality, where they have one email body for one form with replacement inside. You helped my colleague Piotr with this here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/orbeon/X7OOGNuoZrw

Now they ask if it's possble to have different email body (or part of body) based on variable in form. For example, we have variable in form NewSupplierForm $choosebody. If $choosebody = 1, then in email body we should have sentence: "Dear user, please fill your section", if $choosebody = 2, then in email body we should have sentence: "Dear user, please approve supplier" etc.

Is it possible to achieve that? I attach email-form.xpl and resources.xml.

With best regards

Tomasz Marendowski

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Dynamic email body based on variable in form

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Hi Tomasz,

It seems that your `email-form.xpl` and `resources.xml` attachments didn't
get through; could you try to attach them again in an answer to this
message?

Alex

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martom.ipcc

Re: Dynamic email body based on variable in form

Hi Alex,

Files attached.

Tomasz

W dniu niedziela, 29 lipca 2018 00:04:23 UTC+2 użytkownik Alessandro Vernet napisał:

Hi Tomasz,

It seems that your `email-form.xpl` and `resources.xml` attachments didn't
get through; could you try to attach them again in an answer to this
message?

Alex

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Dynamic email body based on variable in form

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Hi Tomasz,

Thank you for the `email-form.xpl`. I see you're selecting a different body
based on the app (e.g. `NewSupplierForm`). The XSLT where you do this also
has access for the form data, with `$data` pointing to the root element,
i.e. the `<form>` element. I imagine that in your previous message you're
referring to a control named `choosebody`. In that XSLT, you can't refer to
the value of that control as `$choosebody`, but instead need to look up the
name of the section it is in (say that section is called `internal`), and
then you can get the value of the control in XSLT with
`$data/internal/choosebody`. You'll let me know if this helps.

Alex

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PiotrW

Re: Dynamic email body based on variable in form

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Hi Alessandro

I think that Tomasz described not correctly problem of our customer.
We are able to get proper mail subject and body based on the form (app) name.
But we are not able to get any values entered on the form to be in the mail body.
I've described the problem as detailed as possible. I also attached email-form.xpl and resources file with changes marked today's date (2018-08-13)

Piotr Wieczorek

email-form.xpl resources.xml Description_of_the_issue.docx

martom.ipcc

Re: Dynamic email body based on variable in form

Files attached.

W dniu poniedziałek, 13 sierpnia 2018 20:23:31 UTC+2 użytkownik Piotr Wieczorek napisał:

Hi Alessandro

I think that Tomasz described not correctly problem of our customer.
We are able to get proper mail subject and body based on the form (app) name.
But we are not able to get any values entered on the form to be in the mail body.
I've described the problem as detailed as possible. I also attached email-form.xpl and resources file with changes marked today's date (2018-08-13)

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Dynamic email body based on variable in form

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In reply to this post by PiotrW

Hi Piotr,

I understand that you not only want to choose the template based on the
app/form, but also want to replace "placeholders" in the template by values
from the form. My earlier message
<http://discuss.orbeon.com/Dynamic-email-body-based-on-variable-in-form-tp4663753p4663772.html>
was addressing this very question.

In that light, does my previous message help? And of course, just let me
know if I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do, or if you've
encountered some issue doing what I was suggesting in that message.

Alex

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Alessandro Vernet

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Hi Piotr,

Did you get a chance to try updating your XSLT to replace placeholders in
the template with values coming from the form data (from `$data`, in your
case)? If so, did it work for you?

Alex

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PiotrW

Re: Dynamic email body based on variable in form

Hi Alex

I just returned from sick leave.
I read your answer and it seems that we were talking about the same issue -
to replace placeholders at mail body with form data.
I will try to test your proposed solution this week and come back to you
with my findings.

Piotr

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Got it Piotr, you'll let us know how it works.

Alex

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PiotrW

Re: Dynamic email body based on variable in form

Hi Alessandro

Just to inform you that I've managed to enhance email-form.xpl to replace
some parts of email body with data retrieved from form.
In some cases it requires some additional condition checking (i.e you
receive some value from checkbox but would like to have some meaning in the
body) but works fine.

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Alessandro Vernet

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Hi Piotr,

Excellent, I am glad you managed to make all the changes you needed to `email-form.xpl`. Also, in case I haven’t mentioned this before, 2018.1 will come with some of those features build-in, so you’ll be able to create a template directly from Form Builder:

https://doc.orbeon.com/form-builder/advanced/template-syntax

Alex

On Sep 4, 2018, 11:43 AM -0700, PiotrW , wrote:

Hi Alessandro

Just to inform you that I've managed to enhance email-form.xpl to replace
some parts of email body with data retrieved from form.
In some cases it requires some additional condition checking (i.e you
receive some value from checkbox but would like to have some meaning in the
body) but works fine.

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