Answer by Tinh Nguyen

Tinh Nguyen — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 10:48:51 -0400

Hi Reguel, Thanks for your solution. I tried to configure it in my local but seems I still miss something to make it run. This is what I did: 1. Create a class and copy above code 2. Import JsfWorkflowUi 3. Create a user with email and run the process has a script call to configure of this class.

But I always get exception at this step : IProperty host = appManager.getSystemProperty("EMail.Server.Host"); Can you give me a hint?

Thanks

Answer by Reguel Wermelinger

Reguel Wermelinger — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 11:10:30 -0400

Today with Axon.ivy 6.1 and older it's not possible to send task mails from the designer. The main blockers are:

the mail servlet (ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.IvyMailServlet) which generates the content of the task mail is not bound at designer time.
tasks mails require the system application 'System' and its process model 'IvyCommons'. But at design time only one application 'Designer' is available

Other difficulties which can be fixed/configured:

the task mail sender job does not respect the designer mail preferences. therefore the system wide mail properties of the engine have to be modified e.g. in a utitlity process
the project that provides the task notification mail content process must be registered with an utitily process api call
the designer app does not send any task mails by default. however with a JsfWorkflowUi or similar a test user can override his mail settings and enable task mails for any new task.
the designer test user must have a mail address configured

sample utility code to enable mail sending in the designer:

package mailGenerator;

import ch.ivyteam.di.restricted.DiCore;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.application.IApplication;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.application.IApplicationConfigurationManager;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.environment.Ivy;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.security.IEMailNotificationSettings;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.system.IProperty;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.workflow.StandardProcessType;

/**
 * Enable task mails in the designer to be generated with the JsfWorkflowUi
 */
public class DesignerMailUtitily {

    public static void configure()
    {
        configureEngineMailProperties();
        enableDesignerApplicationMails();
        useMailProcessFromJsfWorkflowUi();
    }

    private static void useMailProcessFromJsfWorkflowUi() {
        Ivy.wf().setStandardProcessImplementationLibrary(
                StandardProcessType.MailNotificationNewTask, "JsfWorkflowUi");
    }

    private static void enableDesignerApplicationMails() {
        IApplication designerApp = Ivy.wf().getApplication();
        IEMailNotificationSettings mailSettings = designerApp.getDefaultEMailNotifcationSettings();
        mailSettings.setNotificationDisabled(false);
        mailSettings.setSendOnNewWorkTasks(true);
        designerApp.setDefaultEMailNotifcationSettings(mailSettings);
    }

    /**
     * configure the minimal engine properties so that i can work with 'smtp4dev' or similar
     */
    private static void configureEngineMailProperties() {
        IApplicationConfigurationManager appManager = DiCore.getGlobalInjector()
                .getInstance(IApplicationConfigurationManager.class);
        IProperty host = appManager.getSystemProperty("EMail.Server.Host");
        host.setValue("localhost");
    }
}

Answers to: Can I send task mails from designer

Answer by Tinh Nguyen

Answer by Reguel Wermelinger