Dynamics CRM Tools: Workflow: Add rich HTML content in email body

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Источник: http://mscrmtools.blogspot.com/2009/...-in-email.html
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One of the limitations of workflow in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is the uncapability to add dynamic HTML content. By dynamic, I mean with data from the item that triggered the workflow.

We all know the trick of copy/paste to add static HTML in the mail but to add dynamic content is a different kettle of fish ...

In particular, I think about the following needs:

• Display a table containing the information related to the current record (eg list of contacts from an account)
• Show a link to a form without displaying any url but just a clickable word

Note that it is possible to manage these cases with custom workflow activities. In fact, when you insert a workflow output text in an email, the content is not encoded, ie you can pass HTML tags that will be interpreted as such.

For example:

Click here

will just display

Click here

In the same way, you can display HTML table with CRM content and insert it in mail body.



[UPDATE] Code example - Url builder. This code create an hypertext html control that will be used in email body. You can set a text for the hypertext control with the input property and you get back the hypertext control in output property

1: public class EntityUrlHelper : SequenceActivity 2: { 3: public static DependencyProperty linkProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("link", typeof(string), typeof(EntityUrlHelper)); 4: 5: [CrmOutput("Link")] public string link 6: { 7: get 8: { 9: return (string)base.GetValue(linkProperty); 10: } 11: set 12: { 13: base.SetValue(linkProperty, value); 14: } 15: } 16: public static DependencyProperty textLinkProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("textLink", typeof(string), typeof(EntityUrlHelper)); 17: 18: [CrmInput("Hypertext link text")] 19: public string textLink 20: { 21: get 22: { 23: return (string)base.GetValue(textLinkProperty); 24: } 25: set 26: { 27: base.SetValue(textLinkProperty, value); 28: } 29: } 30: 31: protected override ActivityExecutionStatus Execute(ActivityExecutionContext executionContext) 32: { 33: IContextService contextService = (IContextService)executionContext.GetService(typeof(IContextService)); 34: IWorkflowContext context = contextService.Context; 35: 36: link = "" + textLink + ""; 37: return ActivityExecutionStatus.Closed; 38: } 39: }

Источник: http://mscrmtools.blogspot.com/2009/...-in-email.html