Generating eMails with attachments

[Eddy]

Hi Folks!

We are using TapForms also as a CRM-System.

Therefore we let TapForms generate Emails for us. We are using a script, that generates a “mailto” phrase including address, subject and body. This headers are collected from TapForms fields. This works great.

And here is the task:

Sometimes we have to send our clients/guests a PDF (standard contract-template, checklist etc.). Of course, we store these standard PDFs in our CRM-System, i. e. TapForms. But there is no way to generate an email with an attachment by using the “mailto”-method.

What we need is a button inside a form, that creates an email with an attached file, coming out of a attached-file-field.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance, Eddy

[Brendan]

There’s no functionality for attaching a file to an email from within a Script.

However, on the iOS version, when you email a record, Tap Forms will include all photos and file attachments as attachments to the email. That functionality doesn’t exist on the Mac version though.

[Eddy]

Thanks Brendan, for your promt answer!

I found a way to generate mails from Tapforms to MacOS by using Javascript.

Like this:

Mail = Application('com.apple.Mail')
message = Mail.OutgoingMessage().make()
message.visible = true
message.toRecipients.push(Mail.Recipient({ address: "foo.bar@example.com" }))
message.subject = "Testing JXA"
message.content = "Foo bar baz"

attachment = Mail.Attachment({ fileName: "/Users/myname/Desktop/test.pdf" })
message.attachments.push(attachment)

Or, even better by using the PATH-Command:

Mail = Application('com.apple.Mail')
message = Mail.OutgoingMessage().make()
message.visible = true
message.toRecipients.push(Mail.Recipient({ address: "foo.bar@example.com" }))
message.subject = "Testing JXA"
message.content = "Foo bar baz"

attachment = Mail.Attachment({ fileName: Path("/Users/myname/Desktop/if the file has spaces in it test.pdf") })
message.attachments.push(attachment)

The question is now:
How can I address the file / path inside Tapforms correctly?

Thanks in advance:

Eddy

[Brendan]

Hi Eddy,

Did you try this from within Tap Forms? I just tried, but I get Can't find variable Application error. I’m not sure that Application is supported from within the JavaScriptCore framework.

[Brendan]

I know where you got this from:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27746418/send-email-with-attachment-using-javascript-for-automation

But that’s JavaScript for Automation. That is, from AppleScript (but using JavaScript instead of the AppleScript language).

That won’t work from within JavaScriptCore, which is what Tap Forms uses.

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