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Creating Rule for Email Template

Posted by Stephen
on Mar 05, 12:53 AM

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Hi,

I am trying to create a Rule through which my Workflow will choose a particular "Email Template", based on the value of a given attribute.

Here is the way my "Action" looks in my workflow :

<Action id='2' name='email1' application='com.waveset.provision.WorkflowServices'>
<Argument name='op' value='notify'/>
<Argument name='template'>
<rule name='My Rule Email Template'/>
</Argument>
<Argument name='to' value='michael.jackson@yahoo.com'/>
</Action>

And, here is the actual Rule (My Rule Email Template) :

<RuleArgument name='template'/>

<switch>

<ref>global.employmenttype</ref>
<case>
<s>Permanent Employment</s>
<setvar name='template'>
<s>Email Notify User Admin</s>
</setvar>
</case>
<case>
<s>Temporary Employment</s>
<setvar name='template'>
<s>Email Notify Account Admin</s>
</setvar>
</case>

</switch>

<MemberObjectGroups>
<ObjectRef type='ObjectGroup' id='#ID#Top' name='Top'/>
</MemberObjectGroups>
</Rule>

In other words : if the attribute "Temporary Employment" is chosen from the User Form, then my workflow will select "Email Notify Account" as the Email Template to use.

If "Permanent Employment" is chosen, then it will select the other Email Template.

However, when I tried to test this, I got the error :

JavaLang Error : Null Exception

Obviously, my Rule is faulty.

Please, could anyone tell me where my mistake is?

Thanks

Creating Rule for Email Template

Posted by Adi
on Mar 17, 05:05 PM

The rule is returning null... why? Because the <set> or <setvar> tags return null (even though they set the variable value).

If you write it this way instead, the rule should be good to use:

<block>
    <defvar name='template'>
        <switch>
            <ref>global.employmenttype</ref>
            <case>
                <s>Permanent Employment</s>
                <s>Email Notify User Admin</s>
            </case>
            <case>
                <s>Temporary Employment</s>
                <s>Email Notify Account Admin</s>
            </case>
        </switch>
    </defvar>
    <ref>template</ref>
</block>

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