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Customise SRSPrintDestinationSettings to keep a draft email instead of mailing it

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Posted on by _MGP 506

I need to do a development that will allow the P.O. "Pro-forma confirmation" to be saved as a draft email instead of being sent. I have put in a crude hack to test I can do this and I can make the email save without sending and it pops up ready to send. It's just a case of driving this process by settings.

However, given that email settings are held in SRSPrintDestinationSettings, I believe this class would need to be customised so that automatic email sending can continue to be functional / supported for any other trade documents.

e.g. Ideally I would like to have a "Save as draft" checkbox under the Image file format below.

Can anyone offer advice about how best to do this?

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    _MGP 506 on at

    Thanks for the reply Crispin.

    I think my original question maybe is not totally clear so apologies for that.

    I think what I need to do is extend the existing email settings rather than create a completely new setting (i.e. an additional checkbox within the existing email settings - so I don't think I need to add to the Enum SRSPrintMediumType?)

    It is good to know about those methods so thanks for the pointers.

    My question should have been more towards where I need to make the changes to support the new setting for generating draft emails for all other trade documents. I couldn't find anything where others have done a similar thing but I will try to pick apart and post back when I get there.

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    _MGP 506 on at

    Just to update the thread after I got this working recently.

    1. Within form SRSPrintDestinationSettingsForm, Create checkbox (MailSaveAsDraft) under the TabPage MailTab ensure AutoDeclaration set to Yes
    2. As per Crispin, modify SRSPrintDestinationSettingsFormmethods (his Step (2))
      • in form init(), call mailSaveAsDraft.value(printSettings.emailIsDraft());
      • in form closeOK(), call printSettings.emailIsDraft(mailSaveAsDraft.checked());
    3. Modify SrsReportEMailDataContract
      • add new member, boolean saveAsDraft;
      • add new parm method, parmSaveAsDraft().
    4. Modify SrsPrintDestinationSettings
      • a new boolean member emailIsDraft that is also defined in the packed list within the class declaration
      • a new parm method, emailIsDraft, that supports this member
      • modify existing method, parmEMailContract, calling emailContract.parmSaveAsDraft(this.emailIsDraft());, to supply the new data when the report is run.
    5. Modify SrsReportRunMailer
      • modify emailReport() method to supply _emailContract.parmSaveAsDraft() as the parameter value for showDialog instead of the hard-coded false when calling inetMailer.sendMailAttach().
    6. Modify SrsReportRunPrinter
      • modify toEmail() method as follows 

    if(!emailContract.parmSaveAsDraft())
{
    // The report has been successfully sent as attachment to email.
    info("@SYS344685");
}
else
{
    // The report has been successfully saved as attachment to draft email.
    info("@NEW123");
}


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