xpages mail nsf in browser

Question

I'm trying to pass a field value from a application to my own mail database opened in browser.

I got the entire url ( my first reaction: wow, so long )

https://server/MyName.nsf/($Inbox)/$new/?EditDocument&Form=h_PageUI&PresetFields=h_EditAction;h_New,s_NotesForm;Memo,s_ParentContentId;($Inbox)1,s_ViewName;(%24Inbox),s_InheritAttachment;false,s_SortOrder;1,s_SortColumnPN;$70&ui=portal

How can I refer easily to the recipient field ? ( To: field ) from the mail database ?

I want to use a sessionScope which picks the desired value and then pass it to the above field.

I did for the above requirement in a lotus notes application using lotusScript something like this:

Sub Click(Source As Button)
    // soome declarations
    Set db=s.CurrentDatabase
    Dim dcc As NotesDocumentCollection
    Set dcc = db.UnprocessedDocuments
    Dim item As NotesItem
    Set doc = dcc.GetFirstDocument
'   em$=doc.nms_Email(0)

    While Not (doc Is Nothing)
        If doc.HasItem ("nms_Email") Then 
            Set item=doc.GetFirstItem("nms_Email")
        Else
            If doc.HasItem ("txt_Email") Then 
                Set item=doc.GetFirstItem("txt_Email")
            Else
                Messagebox "No value for the field!"
                Exit Sub
            End If
        End If
        Forall e In item.values
            If Len(e) > 2 Then  em$=em$+e+"; "  
        End Forall
        Set doc=dcc.GetNextDocument(doc)
    Wend
    If em$=";" Then Exit Sub
    test$=Strleftback(em$, ";")
    var=Evaluate({@Explode("} & test$ & {"; ";")})
    var2=Evaluate("@MailDbName")
    mdb$=var2(1)
    msv$ =var2(0)
    Set dbm=s.GetDatabase(msv$, mdb$, False)
    Set docW = dbm.CreateDocument
    docW.form = "Memo"
    docW.SendTo=var
    Set uidoc = w.EditDocument(True,docW)

End Sub

But how can I do the same thing in xpages?

Most likely not possible unless you add logic to your mail template to read paramaters from the URL. — Per Henrik Lausten, Oct 02 '14 at 06:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 02 '14 at 07:46

iNotes is not an XPages application (which is why the URL is so long).

You can create a new email with the relevant value in the "to" field using a mailto: link. This is standard web development functionality, not proprietary to XPages or Domino, so there are plenty of pages explaining the functionality. That functionality creates a new mail using whatever is the default mail program for the user's computer. I'm not sure how that works with iNotes though.

Alternatively, iNotes documentation may tell you what you need to add into the URL to set the "to" field.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '14 at 16:06

If I understood correctly, you want to generate a URL that composes a new E-mail on the iNotes even it has not been configured as the default E-mail client.

Short way to that, with a hacky method, adding SendTo to the PresetFields parameter in the URL.

Here is the URL you have provided:

https://server/MyName.nsf/($Inbox)/$new/?EditDocument&Form=h_PageUI&PresetFields=h_EditAction;h_New,s_NotesForm;Memo,s_ParentContentId;($Inbox)1,s_ViewName;(%24Inbox),s_InheritAttachment;false,s_SortOrder;1,s_SortColumnPN;$70&ui=portal

Will be modified as:

...&PresetFields=...othervalues...,SendTo;someEmailAddress&ui=portal

Instead of usual query strings, iNotes will get Name1;Value1,Name1;Value1 format for this parameter. So,

SendTo;name@domain.com for single e-mail address.

SendTo;name@domain.com%2Canother@domain.com for multiple (%2c is for comma. Usual comma is to separate name-value sets).

SendTo;name@domain.com,CopyTo;another@domain.com,Subject;Test,Body;Test with other options.

Of course, query string is a limiting factor. You can't have too many values.

The alternative has been explained by Stephan: To create a document in the mail database and use:

https://server/mail/myname.nsf/0/unid?EditDocument

Mail database will default to iNotes in such case. However, in this scenario, you should save the document into the mail database.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 02 '14 at 11:24

Paul's answer is one approach. The other would be to do the same as you did in the LotusScript. Create a document in the mail file, save it (as Draft) and then use the URL to open it. You can figure out the needed URL using the developer tools opening a manually created draft

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 09 '14 at 13:55

My solution is based on mailto: protocol. According to wikipedia you can use it with coma separated list of addresses.

To handle mailto: urls by iNotes you need to go to iNotes preferences, or to use this little hack: https://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/tomsparrow/entry/inotes-mailto.

All you need to do in your XPages code is a correct mailto: link and let user to click it.

xpages mail nsf in browser

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