addEmailOptions

Hi Francesca,

Extend the Email module compose.js, Find the below function, through that you can add the to_address and cc_address using this code,

_populateForCases: function(relatedModel) {
var config = app.metadata.getConfig(),
keyMacro = '%1',
caseMacro = config.inboundEmailCaseSubjectMacro,
subject = caseMacro + ' ' + relatedModel.get('name');

subject = subject.replace(keyMacro, relatedModel.get('case_number'));
this.model.set('subject', subject);
if (!this.isFieldPopulated('to_addresses')) {
// no addresses, attempt to populate from contacts relationship
var contacts = relatedModel.getRelatedCollection('contacts');

contacts.fetch({
relate: true,
success: _.bind(function(data) {
var toAddresses = _.map(data.models, function(model) {
return {bean: model};
}, this);

this.model.set('to_addresses', toAddresses);
}, this),
fields: ['id', 'full_name', 'email']
});
}
},

If you dont have Bean, for any internal company address call the api and if u get the response append with to_address,

_render:function()

{

PopulaeEmail();

},

PopulateEmail:function()

{

app.api.call('GET', app.api.buildURL('Contacts/getRelatedContacts?id=' + your_id), null, {
success: function (data) {
if (data) {
_.each(data,function (val)
{
var to_addresses = [
{ email: data.emailAddress, name: data.contactName },
];
self.model.get('to_addresses').add(to_addresses);

});
}

}

Hi Francesca Shiekh 

As far I debugged the related features the recipients (to, cc, bcc) are essentially instances of module EmailParticipants, take a look at modules/Emails/clients/base/views/compose-addressbook-list/compose-addressbook-list.js, method _render.

So I believe somehow you can extends this feature and create a custom ?fake? module EmailParticipants the way you can fetch data from a bean which will not persist in database.

I hope it can shed some light.

Good luck!

Thank you André Lopes you pointing me to the EmailParticipants module helped a lot.

I found the structure of an EmailParticipant and from there inferred what to include in each element of the address

I am a step closer, my API will build an array of recipients:

         $toAddresses[]=array(
             'email_address'=>$cemail_addr,
             'email_address_id' => $cemail_addr_id,
             'parent_type'=> 'Users',
             'parent_id'=>$cuser->id,
         }

Then turn each one into a collection of EmailParticipants Beans. For example for the To collection:

      foreach($toAddresses as $address){
        $recipientTo = BeanFactory::newBean('EmailParticipants');
        foreach($address as $key=>$val){
          $recipientTo->$key = $val;
        }
        $to[]=$recipientTo;
      }
      $to_collection = $this->formatBeans($api, $args, $to);

this gets passed back to my customemailaction field type which extends EmailactionField, together with a body and subject, 

      App.api.call('GET', url, '',{
        success: _.bind(function(o){
          self.addEmailOptions({
            to_collection: o.to_collection,
            cc_collection: o.cc_collection,
            name: o.name,
            description_html: o.description_html,
            description: o.description
          });

And now I can see the addresses in the To field when the drawer opens!

André Lopes Update:

Unfortunately, though they "look" correct, I can't send the email because there are errors.

"Error There was an internal server error. Please try again.

I don't think my collection is formatted properly because if I delete the recipients and add one manually the email sends just fine.

Thank you!

FrancescaS

Thank you Ragukumar Marimuthu

but I am working with the Sidecar version of Emails module and therefore the compose-email view, the compose is deprecated in the Sidecar version.

FrancescaS

Thanks to Greg Levine I now know that I needed to provide the _link attribute for each model added to the collection.

hence:

App.api.call('GET', url, '',{
        success: _.bind(function(o){
          o.to_collection = _.map(o.to_collection, function(attrs) {
            return app.data.createBean('EmailParticipants', _.extend({_link: 'to'}, attrs));
          });
          o.cc_collection = _.map(o.cc_collection, function(attrs) {
            return app.data.createBean('EmailParticipants', _.extend({_link: 'cc'}, attrs));
          });
          self.addEmailOptions({
            to_collection: o.to_collection,
            cc_collection: o.cc_collection,
            name: o.name,
            description_html: o.description_html,
            description: o.description
          });

Everything works now, no more errors.