Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Send Email from Custom Button Click

Objective

Sometimes, we get a requirement to send email from Record detail page, clicking on Custom Button (naming Send Email).

I was answering this question in Salesforce Stackexchange Send email on Custom button click? and thought that it might help others.

Solution

Here is an approach to handle this requirement.

Create a Javascript Custom Button (Detail Page) button and use the following code:


{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/31.0/connection.js")} 
{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/31.0/apex.js")}
var message = new sforce.SingleEmailMessage(); 

message.targetObjectId = "{!Contact.Id}";
message.toAddresses = "{!Contact.Email}";
message.templateId = "00Xq0000000HwSw"; //predefined email template
message.whatId = "{!Case.Id}"; 

var result = sforce.connection.sendEmail([message]); 
if(result[0].success == 'true') 
{ 
    alert("Email sent successfully"); 
} else 
{ 
    alert("Sending failed"); 
} 
alert(result);

Note: Only User, Contact, Lead, or Person Account objects are allowed for targetObjectId

If you need to refer specific attributes then download Partner WSDL and refer complexType SingleEmailMessage



<complexType name="SingleEmailMessage">
<complexContent>
<extension base="tns:Email">
<sequence>
<element name="bccAddresses" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="25" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
<element name="ccAddresses" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="25" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
<element name="charset" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
<element name="documentAttachments" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="tns:ID"/>
<element name="entityAttachments" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="tns:ID"/>
<element name="fileAttachments" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="tns:EmailFileAttachment"/>
<element name="htmlBody" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
<element name="inReplyTo" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
<element name="optOutPolicy" type="tns:SendEmailOptOutPolicy" nillable="true"/>
<element name="orgWideEmailAddressId" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" type="tns:ID" nillable="true"/>
<element name="plainTextBody" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
<element name="references" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
<element name="targetObjectId" type="tns:ID" nillable="true"/>
<element name="templateId" type="tns:ID" nillable="true"/>
<element name="toAddresses" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="100" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
<element name="treatBodiesAsTemplate" type="xsd:boolean" nillable="true"/>
<element name="treatTargetObjectAsRecipient" type="xsd:boolean" nillable="true"/>
<element name="whatId" type="tns:ID" nillable="true"/>
</sequence>
</extension>
</complexContent>
</complexType>

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6 comments:

  1. Hi, this is Arnold Jr.
    Thanks for posting my question on your blog. It feels amazing. :)

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  3. Thanks a ton. Great article. Very useful.

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