Hello dear ByDesign experts,
I followed the awesome blog from Alessandro http://scn.sap.com/community/business-bydesign/studio/blog/2013/12/12/html-custom-email-notifications-in-sap-cloud-applications-studio in order to send emails with a custom signature.
Mu business case it to extend the New Email functionality under Account Management → New Email by adding the signature of the corresponding user dynamically.
Here is the signature I need at the bottom of my email's body (two lines under the last word written by the user in the Notes):
EmployeeName +", "+ AcademicTitle +
EmployeeRole +
"Company Name"+
PhoneNumber+" Ext: "+PhoneExtension+
CellPhone+
"http://www.companyswebsite.ca"+
"Some french text"+
"Some english test";
I did succeed in creating an attachment in HTML as advised by Alessandro.
The problem is when I send then receive the email, the body.html is still in a attachment and not in the body of the message. The email seems to always be sent as a Plain text format and not in HTML format.
I tried to add the HTML string directly in the Text Collection, but it does not work, the tags are just displayed as strings. So in the Notes (TextCollection) I do not succeed in doing line breaks, or putting a line in Italic, or even doing a ref to a website.
- If someone knows how to customize the TextCollection.Text.TextContent with HTML tags or even CSS I am very interested in this.
I also tried to allow only text/html as Mime files in the corresponding Business Configuration activity and disabled Rich Text or Plain text. But this does not impact the email function I used as the email is still sent as a Plain text.
Here is my sample code in the EmailActivity.XBO→Before-Save:
if(!this.AttachmentFolder.IsSet()){ var instEmailAttFld; instEmailAttFld = this.AttachmentFolder.Create(); //Add attachment1 (html body) var elActivityAttachmDoc: elementsof instEmailAttFld.Document ; var binaryObject : BinaryObject; elActivityAttachmDoc.VisibleIndicator = true; elActivityAttachmDoc.MIMECode = "text/html"; elActivityAttachmDoc.Name = "body.html"; elActivityAttachmDoc.AlternativeName = "body.html"; elActivityAttachmDoc.CategoryCode = "2"; elActivityAttachmDoc.TypeCode.content = "10001"; var NewDocumentText = instEmailAttFld.Document.Create(elActivityAttachmDoc); binaryObject.content = Binary.ParseFromString("<html><body>testJAO<br/><br/>"+ EmployeeName +", "+ AcademicTitle +"<br/>"+EmployeeRole+"<br/>CompanyName<br/>"+PhoneNumber+" Ext: "+PhoneExtension+"<br/>"+CellPhone+"<br/><a href=www.company.ca>www.company.ca</a>"+"<br/><i>French Text<i/><br/><i>English Text<i/><body></html>"); if(NewDocumentText.IsSet()){ var filecontent : elementsof NewDocumentText.FileContent; filecontent.BinaryObject.content = binaryObject.content; NewDocumentText.FileContent.Create(filecontent); var break = "test"; }
}Normally, the code is not the issue as when I open the body.html in my web browser, I get the signature structure that I require.
But I am just not able to add this as a text in my email's body.
If someone has any clue on this, it would be very very very appreciated!
Thank you very much for your attention.
Best regards.
Jacques-Antoine Ollier