✍️ Send a mail the an automation workflow

• 1. Summary
• 2. Result
• 3. Step by Step Guide
• Use a dialog to trigger a workflow
• Prerequisites:
• Steps:
• 4. Documentation

1. Summary

Mail is sent via automation workflow trigger

2. Result

A mail was successfully sent by the workflow

3. Step by Step Guide

Use a dialog to trigger a workflow

Prerequisites:

1. Your n8n workflow is ready
2. The workflow name has no special character and it is activated

Steps:

1. Create a dialog
2. Create a form and add it to the dialog
1. The form can include multiple data-fields, every field and value will automatically send to the n8n workflow
2. The data is accessable via $json.body.payload.formData.[field-name]
3. The form needs a button
1. name of the button (object instance name) = [workflowname]
⚠️
B1 doesn’t allow special characters within object instance names (also not “-”). So keep in mind to give the n8n workflow a name without any special character
2. EventClick = see code below
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var myParam = {
	context: {	eventSource   },
	payload: {
		document: '$_[context.eventSource.topScreen.caller.topScreen.getObject(\'dextdoc\')?.getValue(\'fullpath\')]_$',
		formData: '$_[context.eventSource.parent.getAllScreenValues()]_$' 
	},
	options: { isTest: false} 
};
myParam.workflowName = eventSource.name; 
myParam.context.eventSource = eventSource; 
console.log(myParam); 
window.akioma.automation.runWorkflow(myParam); 
eventSource.topScreen.close();

3. document: with this it is possible to handover documents like a word-file to the workflow
4. formData: all data from your form
5. myParam.workflowName: Instead of using the button-name you can hardcode the workflowname here myParam.workflowName = 'my-workflow';
6. At the end the dialog will be closed automatically
7. TODO: Create a message based on the response from the workflow-execution (right now: have a look to the dev-tools console)

4. Documentation

To find more information, you can check the following documentation.

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