Emailing A PDF Attachment using plugin

Classic Servoy
1

Version 3.1.7-build 411
Java version 1.6.0_02-b06 (Windows XP)

Hello all,

I ddi this in a old version of servoy a few years back. I am trying to create and email a PDF. Here is my code… The globals are the recepient, subject and email body. When i run the code I recieve the faliure message I created. I have tried debugging but I am not sure how to trouble shoot. I did set up my mail server prefereces. Any Ideas ??

//prints the current form as a pdf into a variable
var success = plugins.pdf_output.startMetaPrintJob();

if (success)
{
controller.print(true,false,plugins.pdf_output.getPDFPrinter());
}

var thePdf = plugins.pdf_output.endMetaPrintJob();

//email thePDF as an attachment
var attachment1 = plugins.mail.createBinaryAttachment(‘fax.pdf’,thePdf);

var succes = plugins.mail.sendMail(globals.G_Text1,‘Ebrandt@surgicam.com’, globals.G_Text2,globals.G_Text3,null,null,new Array(attachment1));

if (!succes)
{
plugins.dialogs.showWarningDialog(‘Alert’,‘Failed to Send Email’,‘OK’);
}

2

Does you servoy log tell you anything?

3

Where is the authorization array? I’m not seeing anything related to authorization in your code or your call to the sendmail plugin.

Something like this:

var authorization = new Array("mail.smtp.host=smtp.mail.yahoo.com", "mail.smtp.auth=true", "mail.smtp.username=yahooname", "mail.smtp.password=mypw");

My sendmail code looks like this:

var authorization = new Array("mail.smtp.host=smtp.mail.yahoo.com", "mail.smtp.auth=true", "mail.smtp.username=yahooname", "mail.smtp.password=mypw");

var emailSend = 'recipient@youraddress.com';
var emailFrom = "Display Name for Sender<sender@myaddress.com>";
var emailSubject = "Test subject";
var emailMsg = 'Test message'

var success = plugins.mail.sendMail(emailSend, emailFrom, emailSubject, emailMsg, null, null, null, authorization );

I am just now learning to do attachments, so I’ll borrow your code for that and hopefully this code helps you figure your issue out. Good luck. Hope this helps.

4

Learning at the speed of Servoy…gotta love it!

I got the email attachments figured out. Here’s my code that’s working.

// additional code above eliminated for brevity

// create a file object
var file = plugins.file.showFileSaveDialog();

/*
  I have add'l code not showing that creates an Excel file and saves it
*/

// Get the filename of the file we just saved to disk
var filename = file.getAbsoluteFile();

// here's where the emailing starts

var authorization = new Array("mail.smtp.host=smtp.mail.yahoo.com", "mail.smtp.auth=true", "mail.smtp.username=yahooname", "mail.smtp.password=mypw");

// read the file into a file object
var rawData = plugins.file.readFile(filename)

// convert the file to a binary attachment
var myFile = plugins.mail.createBinaryAttachment('test.xls', rawData)

// put the binary file into an array in preparation for the email plugin
var attachment = new Array(myFile);

// confirm send
var answer = plugins.dialogs.showWarningDialog('Alert', 'You are about to email this Excel file to the customer', 'OK', 'Cancel');

if(answer == 'OK')
 {
  var emailSend = 'recipient@yahoo.com' 
  var emailFrom = "sender<sender@yahoo.com>";
  var emailCC = "cc@yahoo.com"
  var emailBCC = "bcc@yahoo.com"
  var emailSubject = "Testing email with attachment";
  var emailMsg = 'This is the message'

  var success = plugins.mail.sendMail(emailSend, emailFrom, emailSubject, emailMsg, emailCC, emailBCC, attachment, authorization );
 }
// What was the result of trying to send the email
plugins.dialogs.showInfoDialog('Email Sent', 'Email sent successfully? ' + success,'OK');
5

There may or may not be some useful tidbits in this blog post I did a while back…

http://greg.agiletortoise.com/2007/02/0 … ilprinter/

I shows example code for creating a multi-destination print dialog that can PDF, or email a PDF, or just plain old print.

greg.