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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Sending e-mails using a mail template


In this recipe, we will create a Web Script that will send a mail to a particular defined user. The content of the mail will be driven by a mail template. Finally, the mail content is returned as the Web Script response.

How to do it...

  1. 1. We will first create a Mail Template. Here is the template:

    Hello ${person.properties["cm:firstName"]},
    Welcome to Alfresco!
    Here are your registration details.
    First Name: ${person.properties["cm:firstName"]}
    Last Name: ${person.properties["cm:lastName"]}
    User Name: ${person.properties["cm:userName"]}
    Enjoy your Stay!
    Regards,
    the Alfresco Team.
    
  2. 2. Save this template in the Company Home | Data Dictionary | EMail Templates folder—with the name userdetailsmail.ftl

  3. 3. Now, we will create new files for the web script; let's name this script as sendusermail.

  4. 4. Open a text editor and create a new file with this code:

    <webscript>
    <shortname>Send Mail</shortname>
    <description>Searches for a user and sends...