collective.contentrules.mailfromfield 1.2.0

How it take the email data

First of all you must choose the Target element.

If you choose to keep default “From rule’s container” option address will be read from the section you have activated the rule on.

Example: if you activated the rule on folder /site/section and the rule will raise event when working on a document /site/section/folder/foo the email address will be taken from the folder.

Changing to “From content that triggered the event” will change the behavior, trying to get email data from the content that raised the event.

Example: if you activated the rule on a folder /site/section and the rule will raise event when working on a document /site/section/folder/foo the email address will be taken from the foo document.

Finally, if you choose “From content’s parent”, adresses will the taken from the container of the content that triggered the event.

Example: if you activated the rule on a folder /site/section and the rule will raise event when working on a document /site/section/folder/foo the email address will be taken from folder.

What it try to read

The rule try to get from the object:

• an attribute of the given name

• a callable method from the given name

• an Archetypes field with given id

• a ZMI property with given id

The rule try to read, one after one, all this data. The first match found will be the one used; if not one give results, no e-mail is sent at all.

Message interpolation

Marker labels that follow can be used in the message text and subject.

${title}

The title of the content that triggered the event (foo title in our example)

${url}

The URL of the content that triggered the event (foo URL in our example)

${section_name}

The title of the folder where the rule is activated on (section title in our example)

${section_url}

The URL of the folder where the rule is activated on (section URL in our example)

A real Plone use case

A Plone site use Signup Sheet for manage internal training session. The form fieldset is customized as normal, but one of the field is director_email.

We want that this e-mail address is notified when a user subscribe and the user itself put there the e-mail address of the proper director.

To reach this we need to:

• create a new rule triggered on “Object added to this container”

• add a filter condition based on content type Registrant

• add an action using the “Send email to address taken from the content”

• specify in the action the SignupSheet field with the director email

• specify in the action that we want to take the email from the target content (the Registrant itself)

1.2.0 (2023-06-19)

• Change mail send method and allow to eventually add attachments. [cekk]

1.1.0 (2023-06-19)

• Plone 6 support [foxtrot-dfm1]

1.0.1 (2021-03-10)

• Allow to get to the end of the action execution if no mail is provided. You don’t want the page to break if the email is missing. For the anonymous user this wold be a bad UX [lucabel]

1.0.0 (2020-11-23)

• Migrate code to Plone 5/python 3. [lucabel]

• Add support for plone.stringinterp. [cekk]

0.4.0 (2015-03-13)

Dropped Plone 3 compatibility

• Fixed some label that were not i18n compatible [keul]

• Fixed wrong documentation mess introduced on version 0.3: the new “parent” option was wrongly descripted [keul]

• Updated documentation to reflect changes done in version 0.3 [keul]

0.3.0 (2014-05-06)

• Fix unicode error while replacing strings [nicolasenno]

• Do not fail if a rule is activated on a non-AT content [keul]

• Do not try to send mail to empty string recipients [keul]

• Refactoring [alert]

• Added parent option in the target vocabulary [alert]

0.2.0 (2013-05-02)

• lowered logging level to debug [keul]

• fixed ruleAction factory [cekk]

0.1.0 (2011-10-21)

• Initial release