Use Contents in Invoke Form Activity
- Last UpdatedJul 01, 2024
- 2 minute read
Email templates can be used to display the values of the contents that have been created in a workflow.
Scenario
Scenario Requirements:
Assume that, a Content of type number and by name 'EmployeeAge' is created in Start activity and at runtime its value is 30.
You want to:
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Display the content's value in Invoke Form email.
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Display the variable's value after "Submitted On" row in the Task Details Table.
Scenario Solution
To display this the content's value in Invoke Form email and to display the variable's value after "Submitted On" row in the Task Details Table, the following steps need to be followed:
Steps:
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Copy InvokeFormEmail.html file.
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Use the <%#Variable.Contentname%> placeholder in the html template for viewing the content's value. Where <Contentname> is a name of the content. Use the <%#Content.EmployeeAge%> placeholder in the html template, where the value is to be displayed. Since the Content name is "EmployeeAge", the placeholder to be used is <%#Content.EmployeeAge%>. The highlighted portion in the below code displays the position where the <%#Content.EmployeeAge%> placeholder is added.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
}
.style2 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}
.style4 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: Normal;
color: #333333;
}
.Username {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: Bold;
color: #333333;
}
.subject {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: Bold;
color: #333333;
}
.style8 {
color: #FF3300;
font-weight: bold;
}
.style9 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; }
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width="700" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" >
<tr>
<td valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td><p><span class="Username">@@Dear@@ <%#ActorName%></span>, </p>
<p class="style2"><%#Body%></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EBEBEB"><span class="style4">@@Task Information@@ </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1">
<tr>
<td width="50%">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#999999">
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#CCCCCC"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="style2">
<tr>
<td width="21%" bgcolor="#EFEFEF">
<b>@@Name@@</b></td>
<td width="79%" bgcolor="#EFEFEF">
<%#TaskName%></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>@@Description@@</b></td>
<td>
<%#Description%></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EFEFEF">
<b>@@Submittedby@@</b></td>
<td bgcolor="#EFEFEF">
<%#Submitedby%></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>@@Date@@</b></td>
<td>
<%#SubmitedDate%></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EFEFEF">
<b>@@Time@@</b></td>
<td bgcolor="#EFEFEF">
<%#SubmitedTime%></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>Employee Age</b></td>
<td>
<%#Content.EmployeeAge%></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="style2"><a href="<%#IntranetUrl%>/Form/WorkItemViewEmail.aspx?<%#QueryString%>">@@Click here@@</a> @@to view the form@@</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style2"><span class="style2">@@Or@@ </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style2"><span class="style2">@@Copy the below mentioned link in the browser area to view the form@@</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="style2"><%#IntranetUrl%>/Form/WorkItemViewEmail.aspx?<%#QueryString%></span></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#EBEBEB">
<td align="right" class="style2">
<span><a href="<%#IntranetUrl%>/Emaildocview.aspx?<%#DocViewQueryString%>">@@Document View@@</a></span>
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<span><a href="<%#IntranetUrl%>/EmaiExecutionView.aspx?<%#ExecutionViewQueryString%>">@@Current Execution Status@@</a></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="style2"><strong>@@Regards@@,</strong><br />
@@Skelta Admin@@</td>
</tr>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The actor will get the following mail format for the above template:
