How to send a predefined email after clicking on an Insert button in a Form?

Question

Hi,
I created my form ( three fields) where I enter a three values.
I want an email be sent every time new values are entered and the insert button clicked.
Do you know a way on how to do it please?
Thanks
Khaled.

Answer 1

Hi,
I do not know of a way within Portal to automatically send an email, but the database has a utility (utl_smtp) that will allow you to do so very easily. You can use Portal to insert your data and then put a trigger on your table that fires after the data is inserted that calls a procedure that will send the mail.
Here is an example of a procedure that I have used to send mail (you can get all of the info on utl_smtp in the Oracle docs). I have a Portal form that allows the user to input three values and once they click 'insert' and the data goes into the table, I have a trigger that fires 'after insert' and runs this procedure:
PROCEDURE send_register_mail (sender in varchar2,
email varchar2,
date_of_class date)
IS
mailhost VARCHAR2(30) := 'my.mailserver.com';
mail_conn utl_smtp.connection;
BEGIN
mail_conn := utl_smtp.open_connection(mailhost, 25);
utl_smtp.helo(mail_conn, mailhost);
utl_smtp.mail(mail_conn, email);
utl_smtp.rcpt(mail_conn, '[email protected]');
utl_smtp.open_data(mail_conn);
utl_smtp.write_data(mail_conn, 'Subject: Platform Training registration request'||utl_tcp.crlf||'Content-Type:text/html;'||utl_tcp.crlf||utl_tcp.crlf);
utl_smtp.write_data(mail_conn, sender||' would like to attend the POC training scheduled for '|| date_of_class);
utl_smtp.close_data(mail_conn);
utl_smtp.quit(mail_conn);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
-- Handle the error
htp.p('There was an error processing your registration. Please contact the site administrator');
END;
Hope this helps.
-melissa