Sending emails with attachments

Problems and solutions
1

I need to send out emails in a workflow and need to attach a file.

The code for sending my emails is:

 emailService.send(
        template    = "myTemplate"
      , recipientId = someID
      , args        = { someArgs = someValue } 
    );

The documentation says I need to attach the file(s) within the params attribute, but here is where I’m stuck.

I tried a buildLink to the attachment, but without any result.

What’s the way here to attach one ore more files?

Thanks,
Michi

2

You can do it like this:

var attachmentBinary = fileReadBinary( tmpPdfFile );
emailService.send(
	  template    = "myTemplate"
	, recipientId = someId
	, args        = { someArgs = someValue } 
	, attachments = [
		{ name="someFileName.pdf", type="application/pdf",  binary=attachmentBinary }
	]
);

The template handler can also provide a prepareAttachments function that’s called automatically. This should return the above attachments struct.

I hope that helps.

Best,
Sacha

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3

This is what I finally did:

    var assetMeta = assetManagerService.getAsset( assetID ); // get asset meta data
    var assetBinary = assetManagerService.getAssetBinary( assetID );  // get asset binary
    
    // send email
    emailService.send(
        template    = ListLast(qParticipant.certificateFolder,"/")
      , recipientId = qParticipant.id
      , args        = { teilnehmer=qParticipant.id } 
      , attachments = [
          { name=assetMeta.file_name & "." & assetMeta.asset_type, type="application/pdf",  binary=assetBinary }
        ]
    );

Works fine.

Thanks for the hint.

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