Script to send an email

[Jon Millar]

Hi All. Loving TapForms so far,

Is there any way to create a script that will run automatically when a record date field from a table = todays date?

Any help gratefully revived
Cheers
Jon

• This topic was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Jon Millar.

[Brendan]

Hi Jon,

You could try the Utils.openUrl() method.

This would work to create the email. It’ll launch your mail program and put in the subject and body.

function Email_User() {

    let subject = encodeURIComponent("Testing 123");
    let body = encodeURIComponent("This is what I want to say in the email");
    Utils.openUrl("mailto:support@tapforms.com?subject=" + subject + "&body=" + body);

}

Email_User();

You would have to put the script into a Script Field on your Table field though. Then you’ll have to reference your Date field in your script, which will cause the trigger and add a check to see if the date is today before running the above code.

[Jon Millar]

Thanks Brendan that’s great.

To fine tune it though, I need to get the record field details into the Message body, I imagine something like creating variables with “getFieldValue” and then putting those variables into the Email body. Is that Straight forward?

One more thing. That script beautifully creates the email but can the script also automatically send it rather than just create it and leave it for you to manually “send” ?

Thanks again
Cheers
Jon

[Brendan]

I don’t think it can send it automatically. It’s just a way to compose an email.

And yes, you’d use the record.getFieldValue(); function to get a value from the record and embed it within the body. In the body variable I have in the sample you’ll have to concatenate the strings from the values you get from the record for your fields.

You can’t get too complicated with the body though because it can only be plain text.

[Jon Millar]

Ok , understand thanks

What about incorporating the likes of Zapier soo that it can trigger actions from TapForms ?

Airtable has such functionality. Is that something that might be possible to incorporate?

Cheers Jon

[Brendan]

I’m not familiar with Zapier. But if it’s a web service API, you can use Utils.postJsonToUrl() or Utils.postContentToUrlWithContentType() functions to send data to an external web service.

[Sam Moffatt]

I signed up to Zapier and gave it a spin, if you create a Zap using the “Webhooks by Zapier” option, you can use the URL it gives you to call into Utils.postJsonToUrl():

function Test() {
	let result = Utils.postJsonToUrl(JSON.stringify({"test":"data","values":[1,2,3]}), "https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/catch/14644114/3olzaie/");
	console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
}

Test();

Very simple example of a test function to call into the hook URL (that was a quick one I created) and you can see what the response was. In my case it looked like this:

{"status":"success","id":"018691ed-550d-fb09-043e-22f9bf52151b","attempt":"018691ed-550d-fb09-043e-22f9bf52151b","request_id":"018691ed-550d-fb09-043e-22f9bf52151b"}

And in the UI it accepted the values I handed it. If you’re in that ecosystem it should work to send it structured data that you can move from there.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Sam Moffatt.

[Jon Millar]

Thanks Sam, I’m have ac look and try to get my head around it! Cheers 😊

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