Adding a button to a shreapoint page

Question

Hi,
Is it possible to add a button to a sharepoint page, on click of which I want some emails to go to some people and a field gets updated in a list.
How can I create such a button. Also do we have to use a workflow and attached it to button click event.
Kindly help.
Many thanks.

Answer 1

You can create a web part with button in it. The button click handler will contain a code to send email and also update a list item.
You can use SPUtility.SendEmail to send the email. Here is an example to send mails:
https://www.collaboris.com/blogs/collaboris-blog/mark-jones/2012/11/06/code-sample-how-to-programmatically-send-an-email-in-sharepoint#.VNSBatmqqiY
This example shows how to create a web part and it controls like button to it:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231546.aspx
Finally you need to drop this web part on a page.
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Nadeem Yousuf