Send Email

 

Sends an email to one or more destinations.

 

The text can be free form, formatted, or content in a text file.

Properties

To Addresses/CC Addresses/BCC Addresses Sections

Message Section

To Addresses/CC Addresses/BCC Addresses Sections

Enter the destination email addresses in the appropriate sections (as a literal values preceded by =, or string variables). For example:

Message Section

Option

Description

From

Enter the originating email address to show to the recipients (as a literal value preceded by =, or a string variable).

Subject

Enter the email subject.

Free Form Message/

Email Contents

Select this to compose your message. In the Email Contents field, you can type the
message (preceded by =).

Enter any plain text along with any % format specifiers shown below where:

%d is a variable of type Integer, Boolean or a Date element.

%s is a variable of type String.

%[.x]f is a variable of type Float, where .x is an optional precision specifier for rounding the number to x decimal places

In addition to user variables, you may also include system variables, global string variables, and CDR variables.

Alternatively, use a user string variable:

 

Select Message from Media List/

Select Media List/

Use Dynamic Media List/

Media Lists/

Select Text File/

Use Dynamic Text File/

Message

Use this option to select the file from the options list and then select Select Text File to choose a text file in the media list or select Use Dynamic Text File to use a user string variable containing the name of the text file:

Use the Use Dynamic Media List option to use a user variable containing the name of the media list and then use a user variable containing the name of the text file in the media list.

Enable mail merge on the email message content

Use the field and Add button to build the list of arguments to populate the placeholders in the order in which they appear in the free form field.

You can reorder the list by dragging and dropping items.

Variable values substituted in the format specifiers might result in, "Dear John, your account is overdue by £100.46. Please pay by the end of 05/2018. We will send a final reminder in 5 days."

Exit Points

Exit Point

Description

Submitted

This is taken when the email has been sent.

Invalid Details

This is taken if the media list or text file specified in the properties cannot be located. Also taken if the email fails validation checks (for example, if invalid characters are used in the message, or an email address contained in a variable is incorrectly formatted).