How To made smart decision making in Email

  • 20 February 2006
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Hi to all

I am intrested to achive the following i think this will be possible with minimum of effort , please explain

I want to send an Email to an user , and in the email i want to send entire
smart form , the thing i want to achieve is that in the mail body i want to have buttons e.g "approve" and "reject" this way the process willm move to next step. The main reason for doing this is user want to take decision within the email and not want to go to tasklist etc. so please tell me can i send smart form (or some other thing ) to acieve this.

please tell me as i am in urgent need of this.

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You may want to look into sending an html mail displaying all the needed information, including two hyperlinks, one for approve and one for reject. The hyperlinks will contain the serial number of the event (as for the normal mail) and the outcome (Approve and Reject in this case). Just as an example, approve link:

<a href= http://MyWeb/MySite/OutlookHandler.aspx?sn=xxyyzz&res=App >Approve</a>

Decline link:

<a href= http://MyWeb/MySite/OutlookHandler.aspx?sn=xxyyzz&res=Dec >Decline</a>


You will then need to build the OutlookHandler.aspx page to open the item using the serial number and then update the datafield with the value of the res parameter. After the work item has been completed, you can show a confirmation message on the page.

This page would also need to check if the workitem is still available, and inform the user if the item has been completed.

Just watch out though for spam filters, html mail restrictions, etc. on the receiver s end.

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