Dynamic Email Attachment

Hi,
1. I need to send a word document as attachment in email using BPEL process, but the document name I will get in Payload. So how can I provide dynamic name of file.
2. Can we pick files for attachments from a remote ftp server, or it is possible only from the server where SOA is installed.
Thanks.

In the Email Activity you have to select multipart message checkbox for 2-3 or more attachments.
Then if you observe the Email Activity code in Source tab, you will find that for all attachments we need to set three values MimeType, Doc name(BodyPartName) and ContentBody (email body content). In your case, you will be able to assign mime type and doc name easily. You can have your file content stored in "base64Binary"/String type of variable and you can assign it here.
Yes, we can read the file from remote ftp server. You can get idea here http://web.deu.edu.tr/oracle/B14099_16/integrate.1012/b25307/adptr_file.htm. Also on soa server, you can find sample application in <soa_home>/bpel/samples/tutorials/129.FTP Adapter folder.
hope this will help,
Nirav

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Dynamic name for email attachment

Hi all
I have a scenario where i have to change the name of the email attachment dynamically in the UDF or using Modules
Requesting you to help me with this please.
Your help is highly rewardful.
--Keerhi

Hi Keerthika,
Please refer the weblink below:
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SI/DynamicEmailAttachmentnameforReceivedMails
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Configuring Receiver mail adapter with dynamic email addresses

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I'm a newbie to XI and I have problems in configuring the Receiver mail adapter with the "Use Mail package" option selected. I am trying pickup a file (using file adapter on Sender side, picks up a simple XML file) and after mapping in XI, send the message as an email message to dynamic email addresses.
Everything works fine if I did not select the "Use Mail Package". But when I choose that option it errors out. I followed this blog posted on SDN -
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/03/07/mail-adapter-xi--how-to-implement-dynamic-mail-address
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I would like to get the Customer details as an XML attachment or in the body of an email with from, to and subject corresponding to that specified in the <Mail> node.
I followed the instructions posted on the blog and it works fine if I don't map the studentdetails to customerdetails. I did multimapping, with one source message (the xml file I posted above) and two target messages (customerdetails and Mail, which is the external definition posted on the blog). I beleive I'm missing something here. Could somebody please guide me through this?
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hi,
I still have not found the solution for this problem. Michal, your blog works fine when my source message has got only the mail details. As per your advice, I tried modified the structure of the xsd file as follows
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xmlns:xi="http://sap.com/xi/XI/Mail/30"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

<xs:element name="Mail">
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 <xs:sequence>
 <xs:element name="Subject" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
 <xs:element name="From" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
 <xs:element name="To" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
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 <xs:element name="Content_Type" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
 <xs:element name="Date" type="xs:dateTime" minOccurs="0"/>
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 <xs:annotation>
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<xs:element name="MailReceipt">
 <xs:annotation>
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 <xs:element name="Server" type="xs:string"/>
 <xs:element name="Format" type="xs:string"/>
 <xs:element name="UseMailPackage" type="xs:boolean"/>
 <xs:element name="Encoding" type="xs:string"/>
 <xs:element name="Subject" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
 <xs:element name="From" type="xs:dateTime" minOccurs="0"/>
 <xs:element name="To" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
 <xs:element name="Date" type="xs:dateTime" minOccurs="0"/>
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</xs:element>
<xs:element name="CustomerlistExternal">
 <xs:annotation>
 <xs:documentation>Customer List</xs:documentation>
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 </xs:complexType>
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</xs:schema>
My source message will be something like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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 <ns1:studentlisttest xmlns:ns1="urn:karthiksender_to_karthikreceiver">
 <Student>
 <studentid>1</studentid>
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 <To>[email protected]</To>
 <Subject>Testing Mail adapter</Subject>
 </Mail>
 </ns1:studentlisttest>
 </ns0:Message1>
</ns0:Messages>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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 <Subject>Testing Mail adapter</Subject>
 <From>[email protected]</From>
 <To>[email protected]</To>
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 <ns0:Message2>
 <ns2:CustomerlistExternal xmlns:ns2="http://sap.com/xi/XI/Mail/30">
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 <Customerid>1</Customerid>
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</ns0:Messages>
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I'm definitely not understanding it right and am missing something. Could you give me step by step instructions to acheive this. I apologize for the trouble..this would be of great help to me.
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Retrieve file name of email attachment

Hi,
it's getting more and more absurd about the fact that it is not possible to get the file name of an email attachment. It's not possible by writing a module (getName(), getContentType() nor getDescription() doesn't work) or by accessing mailadapter specific message attributes.
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(frustrated)

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/23/c093409c663228e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f1/9ef1680efbec4c9656eb028c44ab0b/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ad/bf93409c663228e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
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Hi Sylvain,
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Sending PDF forms (created using SFP) as Email Attachment

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 I have created bunch of ADOBE forms using SFP. They are not interactive forms. created using ADOBE Live cycle designer.
I have the Function module and by executing I can view the PDF form in print preview mode. But I have to save this in backend and attach to email.
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Thanks,
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Hi ,
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*& Report ZENVOI_PDF_MAIL
REPORT zenvoi_pdf_mail MESSAGE-ID ad.
TYPE-POOLS : abap .
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 hexa TYPE solix_tab.
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doc_param-country = 'FR'.
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doc_param-dynamic = abap_true.
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EXPORTING
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CALL FUNCTION 'FP_JOB_OPEN'
CHANGING
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EXCEPTIONS
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EXPORTING
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EXCEPTIONS
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EXCEPTIONS
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TABLES
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** CLASS-DEFINITIONS
DATA: send_request TYPE REF TO cl_bcs.
DATA: document TYPE REF TO cl_document_bcs.
*DATA: sender TYPE REF TO cl_sapuser_bcs.
data: sender TYPE REF TO if_sender_bcs.
DATA: recipient TYPE REF TO if_recipient_bcs.
** INTERNAL TABLES
DATA: l_mailtext TYPE soli_tab.
DATA: iaddsmtp TYPE TABLE OF bapiadsmtp.
DATA: ireturn TYPE TABLE OF bapiret2.
** VARIABLES
DATA: mail_line LIKE LINE OF l_mailtext.
DATA: bapiadsmtp TYPE bapiadsmtp.
DATA: subject TYPE so_obj_des.
DATA : att_subject TYPE so_obj_des.
DATA : w_except TYPE REF TO cx_root .
CONSTANTS : c_defmail TYPE ad_smtpadr VALUE
 '[email protected]' .
FIELD-SYMBOLS : <smtp> TYPE bapiadsmtp.
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subject = 'Exemple de PDF interactif'.
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 CALL METHOD send_request->send( ).
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ENDTRY.
Hope this help you .
Best regards

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Hi All,
I am having a question in opening email attachment file in text mode.
Whenever I am trying to open a CSV file in text mode after each row it adds blank spaces. These blank spaces are to complete the 255 characters on each row I guess.
My client doesn't want these space. So can anybody tell how to remove those spaces?
<removed by moderator> response would be helpful.
Thanks and Regards
Nishad
Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Apr 28, 2011 4:02 PM - priority normalized

Hi,
There is no solution for this as u know that the data which you r sending in csv its actually getting populated from an internal table.
You cannot make your internel table dynamic for this requirment.
It should have a fixed length. Now if the data is less then also the length.
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We are calling reports in two ways (both as html format) to be sent as Email. The report includes company logo at the top
1.Running report in cache through Web.Show_document and
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