How can I use the Email ID field in Form A as the “To Address”of the send mail task, in From B?



About the application

Assume you want
visitors to subscribe to a newsletter through a subscription form and send mail to the e-mail ids of subscribed users. The
application should also allow subscribers to unsubscribe from the news
letter. The sample application Subscribe to Newsletter illustrates this scenario.The application has three forms:

Subscription Form :

The form to subscribe to the newsletter. It has the Name and e-mailid fields to enable visitors to subscribe to the newsletter by specifying their e-mail ids. There is also one hidden field “isUnsubscribed” to check the status of each subscription. This field is hidden when the form is loaded. The on add ->on load script given below, hides the isUnsubscribed field, when form is loaded.

on add
 {
 on load
 {
 hide isUnsubscribed;
 }
 }

Send Mail Form :

This form is used by the owner to send mails to the subscribers mailing list. It has the Send decision check-box field which when set to “true” will send e-mails to the subscriber mailing list. This is achieved by adding on user input script to the Send field as given below.

Send
 (
 type = checkbox
 defaultvalue = false
 on user input
 {
 if (input.Send)
 {
 for each r in Subscription_Form [isUnsubscribed == false]
 {
 sendmail
 (
 To : r.EmailId 
 From : zoho.adminuserid 
 Subject : "Regarding subscription to our newsletter" 
 Message : "Your subscription is approved" 
 )
 }
 }
  }

Code Explanation

if (input.Send) – The if statements will be executed if the Send decision check-box is set to true.

for each r in Subscription_Form [isUnsubscribed == false] – Here, isUnsubscribed is a Decision Check field and r is a variable that stores the records whose isUnsubscribed status is false.

sendmail – Send mail to the e-mail id specified in the row variable r.

Unsubscribe form

The form used to unsubscribe from the newsletter. This form contains the e-mailId field, using which the user unsubscribes from the newsletter. When a user submits his e-mailid, the on add ->on success script added to this form, updates the decision checkbox field isUnsubscribed in the Subscription form to true, as shown in the code given below:

on add
 {
 on success
 {
 temp = Subscription_Form [EmailId == input.EmailId];
 temp.isUnsubscribed = true;
 }
 }

Code Explanation:

temp = Subscription_Form [EmailId == input.EmailId];

-The above code will fetch records from the Subscription Form whose EmailId is equal to the EmailId specified in this form, and store it in a collection variable named temp.

temp.isUnsubscribed = true;

- The above code sets the isUnsubscribed field in the fetched record to true.


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To install the application,

  1. Download the http://creator.zoho.com/exportScript.do?appid=89597000000135240&fileType=.ds&sharedBy=sampleapps
  2. Install the application to your account.Click here to learn how to install using the script file (.ds file)