Joget DX 8 Stable Released
The stable release for Joget DX 8 is now available, with a focus on UX and Governance.
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Export Form Email Tool allows you to send out an email with a form attached in PDF format. Apart from configuring the normal email plugin, the only other configuration you will need to do would be on the selection of the form to be attached and the desired file name for the attachment. |
Figure 1: Export Form Email Tool Properties
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Form | Form to be used to generate pdf file. Record row will be matched with current process instance ID. |
File Name | Intended pdf file name to appear in Email attachment. |
Hide fields without value | When checked, any field without value keyed in will not appear in the generated pdf file. |
Show unselected options for multi options field | When checked, unchecked/unselected options will appear in the generated pdf file in elements like Select Box, Radio Button. |
Figure 2: Export Form Email Tool Properties - Email SMTP Settings
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SMTP Host | Email Server SMTP Host
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SMTP Port | Email Server SMTP Port
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SMTP Username | Email Server Account Username
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SMTP Password | Email Server Account Password
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Figure 3: Export Form Email Tool Properties - Email Info
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To (Specific email address) | Recipient fully qualified address. | ||
To (Participant ID) | Participant ID(s) according to the process flow it resides in. Multiple values can be accepted by separating them with semicolons.
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CC | Fully qualified address is expected. Multiple values can be accepted by separating them with semicolons.
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BCC | Fully qualified address is expected. Multiple values can be accepted by separating them with semicolons.
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Subject | Email Subject. | ||
Message | Email Message. | ||
HTML Content? | Check if "Message" is intended to be a HTML content. |
Figure 3: Export Form Email Tool Properties - Email SMTP Settings
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If no SMTP settings is configured here, this tool will read the SMTP configuration in the "General Settings". You may configure common SMTP settings in "General Settings > SMTP Settings" for your future convenience. |
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From | Sender email address.
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SMTP Host | Email Server SMTP Host
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SMTP Port | Email Server SMTP Port
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Alternatively, you can click on the "hash" symbol to allow the input of hash variables. | |||||
SMTP Username | Email Server Account Username
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SMTP Password | Email Server Account Password
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Hit on the "Send Test Email" button to quickly validate and test out your email settings. |
Figure 4: Export Form Email Tool Properties - Advanced
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Formatting (CSS) | CSS to be included when generating pdf file. The Advanced > Formatting (CSS) field gives you formatting options (font size and color) for the output. Available CSS Classes:
Figure 5: This figure illustrates the CSS classes used in the form layout.
Font & UnicodeUnicode There are a few fonts (added by default) that you can use in CSS formatting. They are:
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serif, sans-serif, monospace, Courier, TimesRoman |
For Unicode content, you can use the following fonts for Asian languages (i.e., Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean):
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STSong-Light, MSung-Light, HeiseiMin-W3, HYGoThic-Medium |
Note : "STSong-Light" gives the best result for Chinese; "MSung-Light" for Traditional Chinese; "HeiseiMin-W3" for Japanese; and "HYGoThic-Medium" for Korean.
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*{font-family:HYGoThic-Medium;} |
Example for adding non supported font:
Method 1: Add the following CSS into Export Form Email Tool > "Formatting (CSS)" field:
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@font-face {
src: url(http://localhost:8080/THSarabun.ttf);
-fs-pdf-font-embed: embed;
-fs-pdf-font-encoding: Identity-H;
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*{font-family: 'TH SarabunPSK';} |
Download the THSarabun.ttf font file and copy it to "[Tomcat Directory]/webapps/ROOT" folder.
Method 2: From Joget v6.0.16, it now supports adding additional font for datalist pdf export and FormPdfUtil by adding the font file to folder "/wflow/fonts" directory and configure the font in "fonts.csv" file in the same directory with format "font family name, file name, encoding". For the sample, kindly refer to the fonts.csv file.
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