Custom mailer script

Description

Customizing email output from PloneFormGen

Introduction

Below is an email script example to customize how PloneFormGen generates the email output.

Installation instructions

Go to form, on the contents tab remove the existing Mailer item.

Choose create new… Custom script adapter. Pick any name.

For the script, set Proxy role: Manager.

Fix the email addresses in the script below.

Paste the code to the script body field.

Save.

Test.

Example script

from Products.CMFCore.utils import getToolByName

mailhost = getToolByName(ploneformgen, 'MailHost')

subject = "Email subject"

# Use this logger to output debug info from this script if needed
import logging
logger = logging.getLogger("mailer-logger")


# Create a message body by appending all the fields after each another
# This includes non-functional fields like labels too
message=""
for field in ploneformgen.fgFields():
   label = field.widget.label.encode("utf-8")
   value = str(fields[field.getName()])

   # For non-functional fields draw a custom separator line
   if not field.widget.blurrable:
        value = "-------------------------------"

   # Format lists on the same row
   try:
      if (value[0] == "["):
         value = value.replace("'", "")[1:-1]
   except IndexError:
      # Skip formatting on error
      pass

   #remove last ':' from label
   if (label[-1] == ":"):
      label = label[0:-1]

   message += label + ": " + value + "\n\n"


source = "noreply@example.com"
receipt = "info@example.com"

mailhost.send(message, receipt, source, subject=subject, charset="utf-8", )