BC Mail Server Access?

Question

We'd like to have an online course automatically email the instructor when a student successfully completes the course/quiz. We can embed javascript code into the course to do that, but it needs to interact with the BC webserver that would actually send the email. We can code that script, but would need information on the BC mail server and what scripting language options can be used.  Can this be done with BC?  Can we access an send notification emails with BC that are not part of workflow?  Thank you!

Answer 1

You can outfit a webform to skip the CRM and just send an email, like a form-to-email solution. Here's some more information about that: http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/kb/setting-form-email-using-web.html
Basically, what I suggest is having a form like the one described in the link above hidden on your page when they user completes the quiz.  Have the javascript fill out the form fields to send out and then you can try to use ajax to post the form to the server with the right action as described in the link above and that form will send the details to the email address you use for the form.
That's the easy way.
I'd suggest taking it a step further, though.  Create a secure zone where the quiz is so that you have access to that person's information like {tag_emailaddress}, {tag_firstname}, etc.  Then, create a web app to collect the quiz results.  Call it Quiz Results.  Then, when the person is done with the quiz, on the final page of the quiz, embed a similar form that's hidden on the page except this form is not a form-to-email but this form is a user-created web app item form where the user submits a new web app item.  You can use ajax again to submit/post the form after filling out the fields with the scores using javascript.  Once the user submits this web app item, it's attached to them and then you can use {module_webappscustomer} on a secure zone page to show them their results.  I guess your quiz script might handle this but if you want to keep a permanent record of a user's scores in the BC database/crm then having them submit a web app of the results is your best way to go.
You'll need a plan that supports web apps though.  The first solution is easier but it doesn't keep the scores in the BC database.