Send arbitary email content from experience / api

Malcolm Bailey

• October 12, 2021 04:04

Hi - I've built an experience for a client and they have asked if at the end of the journey can we automatically send multiple emails with different content.
1 - email sent to their client
2 - email sent to themselves

The content would be dynamically generated based on choices made within the experience.
They don't want to have the share option as each email needs to be different.

I couldn't see anywhere in the API where we could send for example contentString to email@address.com

Is this something that can be achieved without using a third party mail server?

Thanks

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  Sarah Shockey

  • October 12, 2021 21:59

  Hey Malcolm,

  I believe the "ShowpadJS.share()" (https://showpad.pages.showpad.io/showpad-js-lib/reference-v9.html#share) method can help you out!
  This method allows you to create either an email or a link from the selected content.

  In your use case, I believe creating a link is the way to go, so you can send out the link yourself via a custom API you already have or create to your own servers.
  Of course, you can still use Showpad's functionality to immediately send out the emails too.

  Don't hesitate to get in touch if you'd have any questions or remarks. Happy to elaborate!
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  Michaël Boué

  • October 13, 2021 05:21

  Hey Malcolm,

  Thank you for your feedback!

  The use-case you describe is not possible with any of our Showpad APIs or libraries at this moment.
  The share modal will always be needed.

  Kind regards,
  Michaël

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  Malcolm Bailey

  • October 13, 2021 03:52

  Hi Sarah, Thanks for the response.

  Unfortunately that isn't quite what I'm looking for. The emails should be automatically sent once a user clicks a button within the experience. No share modal should be shown.
  
  Basically the experience contains a multipage form, and at the end pressing a button [Complete] two emails should be generated and sent.
  1. The form data in a "pretty" format to the client
  2. The same data in a csv format that goes to the users own address which will auto process it into another system.
  
  The only part we're looking for Showpad to do, and I don't think it can is when clicking a button in the experience, use the api to just send an email without the share modal view showing or any other further user interaction.
  
  Thanks

   

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  Malcolm Bailey

  • October 13, 2021 09:53

  Thanks - that's as expected, but useful to clarify 👍

   

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