Email and Attachments

[William Summers]

Good day to you sir.
Is it possible to use the email and print option that would send an email with a direct link to the attachment in a record? I don’t want to physically attach them item, just give the end user the ability to click a link in the received email that would go directly to that records attachments.

Thanks!

[Alexander Bautz]

The emails are sent when the form is saved so if you put this in your Custom JS:

// Define the variable so it is accessible to the email
var attLink = "";
function dffs_PreSaveAction() {
    // Get the attachments
    attLink = getFieldValue("Attachments").join("<br>");
    return true;
}

Then you use this in your email body:

{var:attLink}

Please note that if you already have a function named dffs_PreSaveAction in your Custom JS you must merge then into one.

Alexander

[MikeS]

Alex,

I have a lookup column in List A that links to an item in List B. I wish to include the link to the List B item in a DFFS email generated from the Display form in List A. The {viewitemlink} does not work as it goes to List A. I tried a variation of the script above in my List A Display form Custom JS but that did not work either.

Thanks for your help,
MikeS

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
You can add this to your custom js:

var lookupLink = jQuery("#dffs_Your_Lookup_Column a:last").attr("href");

Replace Your_Lookup_Column with your FieldInternalName and use the variable in your email likethis:

{var:lookupLink}

Alexander

[MikeS]

Works great Alex.

Thanks for your help,
MikeS

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