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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 via JavaScript API


We have seen how easily we can send e-mails from the Alfresco web client interface. However, it is often necessary to send e-mails from your scripts and applications as well. Alfresco JavaScript API is fully capable of sending e-mails.

From the web client, we have sent e-mails using the Run Action method. In the JavaScript API also, e-mails can be sent by the actions execution only.

In this recipe, we will create a script that would send mail to a particular user, use a template to construct the e-mail message body, and finally invoke the script through a rule.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open Alfresco web client and navigate to Data Dictionary | E-mail Templates space. This is the space where, by default all templates related to e-mails are stored.

    Note

    Though it is not mandatory to have your e-mail templates in this space, conventionally the templates for e-mails are stored here.

  2. 2. Create a new template with a name send-e-mail.ftl, using the following code:

    Dear ${args...