Fetch and Email Data

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Overview

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 newsletter. 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 email-id 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 is 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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