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Create Email Subject from Text Field

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Is it possible to generate the email subject from a user-filled text field?

For example:

When the user enters 'John Doe' for their name in a form, the subject line would be 'John Doe'.

 

<submit format="pdf" textEncoding="UTF-8" target="mailto:mbox@company.com?subject=<John Doe>"/>

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Made some minor changes to your script to get what I needed:

var myDoc = event.target;

var address = "myemail@contoso.com, secondemail@contoso.com";

var subject = [TargetFieldName1.rawValue, TargetFieldName2.rawValue, " Additional Static Text"];

subject.toString();

myDoc.mailDoc({

bEmpty: true,

cTo: address,

cSubject: subject,

csubmîtAs: "PDF"

});

Also, I found out I needed a normal button that calls this script when clicked.  Otherwise, thank you for getting me pointed in the right direction.

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Another method is using my  macro (usable in Designer ES2 or higher).

You can create a complete mail (recipients, subject and message) and add variables from fields to all of them.

http://thelivecycle.blogspot.de/2012/05/mailto-maker-marco-v1.html

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-THPsjHSlpjo/T8UbTb5LX7I/AAAAAAAAAfU/KUu2jELkOEc/s320/Step_4.png

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Use can use this script for getting subject from textfield

var myDoc = event.target;

var address = "";

var subject = TextField.rawValue,

myDoc.mailDoc({

bEmpty: true,

cTo: address,

cSubject: subject,

csubmîtAs: "PDF"

});

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Level 1

You'll have to forgive my ignorance, but I don't understand much about scripting.  Right now, I'm using the 'Email Submit Button' and don't know where to put the suggestions above.  Could someone provide an example please?

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Made some minor changes to your script to get what I needed:

var myDoc = event.target;

var address = "myemail@contoso.com, secondemail@contoso.com";

var subject = [TargetFieldName1.rawValue, TargetFieldName2.rawValue, " Additional Static Text"];

subject.toString();

myDoc.mailDoc({

bEmpty: true,

cTo: address,

cSubject: subject,

csubmîtAs: "PDF"

});

Also, I found out I needed a normal button that calls this script when clicked.  Otherwise, thank you for getting me pointed in the right direction.

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Level 1

I can't seem to get this to fire when in the "click" event of my button.  Am I missing any essential bits?

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I'm in the same boat as G5_Matty.
I've used the same coding, just adding in my data to suit, but I can't seem to get the button to work?

It's not telling me I have any coding errors either.

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Level 10

Hi,

This code needs to be in a standard button, but it also has a few problems.

  • The email addresses should be separated with a semi-colon, not a comma
  • The line subject.toString(); doesn't do anything
  • The csubmîtAs has a special "i" character.
  • If you don't want a comma used between the fields in the subject you should use the .join(" ") to use spaces instead

Try this code

var myDoc = event.target;

var address = "myemail@contoso.com; secondemail@contoso.com";

var subject = [TargetFieldName1.rawValue, TargetFieldName2.rawValue, " Additional Static Text"];

myDoc.mailDoc({

bEmpty : true,

cTo : address,

cSubject : subject.join(" "),

csubmitAs : "PDF"

});

Regards

Bruce