Send a custom email to specific recipients

This workflow action will send a custom email to the specified recipients.

For security reasons, the subject and body of the emails can only be specified via Velocity template files (*.vm), that must have been approved and uploaded to the directory

~/CB-.../tomcat/webapps/cb/config/templates/email

on the CodeBeamer Application Server by a server administrator !

• Recipients
  are the email recipients (required), which can be specified as
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Roles
  • Member fields of the tracker item, that is subject/source of the triggering event
• Subject
  The name of the Velocity template file for the email subject line (required)
• Content
  The name of the Velocity template file for the email body/content (required)

The Velocity template files (*.vm) for the Subject and the Content, must reside in ~/CB-.../tomcat/webapps/cb/config/templates/email.

The Velocity context for both, the subject and the content/body template, contains the following information:

For example:

custom_example_email_subject.vm:

Dear ${recipient.realName}, please have a look at ${subject}

custom_example_email_body.vm:

#parse("notification_email_header.vm")

<div class="comment-box">
	Dear ${recipient.realName}, <br/>
	${user.realName} did ${source.name} #linkTrackerItem(${subject})
</div>

whatever that means to you ...

#parse("notification_email_footer.vm")