Send Mail (Activity)

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forward_to_inbox Send Mail is an Activity automates email notifications from Grooper based on events and conditions set by a settings Batch Process. Optionally, documents in the inventory_2 Batch may be attached to the generated email.

Send Mail will send one email for each document in scope. It has mail merge support for "To", "CC", "Subject", and "Body".

Send Mail also supports attachments:

Content File: Optionally attach the document content.
Metadata: Optionally attach the document metadata.
Text Content: Optionally attach a plain text version of the document.

Text Templates

When configuring the "To", "CC", "Subject", or "Body" property, you have the option of using new text templates to dynamically construct your message.

When composing your template, typing the { character will open the Intellisense menu and provide a list of merge variables that can be used.

`{Batch Name}`	Returns the name of the batch.
`{Batch Process Name}`	Returns the name of the Batch Process.
`{Content Type Name}`	Returns the name of the content type assigned to the current document.
`{Document Name}`	Returns the display name of the document.
`{Field}`	Returns the value of a field.
`{File Extension}`	Returns the file extension associated with the current document.
`{File Name}`	Returns the filename associated with the current document.
`{Flag Message}`	Returns the flag message attached to the current document.
`{Media Description}`	Returns a description for the MIME type associated with the current document, if one is available.
`{Media Type}`	Returns the MIME type associated with the current document.
`{Now}`	Returns the current local date/time. An optional "Format" parameter defines the text prepresentation to be used.

Writing a "Body" template.

The resulting email