Sending emails to groups

Question

Hi all,
I have to send emails to participants inside a group on the server. The groups are synced with the AD on the server.. Now do I need to include a code to call all groups under the ROLE for which I am sending emails to or the following code is fine even though the participants are not directly assigned but are inside the groups which are extracted from the AD?
Role role;
Mail mail = Mail();
role = activity.role.find(name : activity.role.name);
String email = null;
String subject = "Test Email";
String message = "test";
for(int i=0; i < role.participants.length(); i++)
email = role.participants.email;
logMessage("---" +email);
if(email != null)
mail.contentType = "text/html";
mail.subject = subject;
mail.from = ADMIN_EMAIL;
mail.recipient = email;
mail.message = message;
mail.send();
else
logMessage("Problem!! email value for this user [" + role.participants[i].name + "] is null. Please contact the administrator.");

Answer 1

Well the participants belong to a particular group in the AD and that group is assigned to a role . So if you are trying to access participants in that role, it should automatically try to access participants inside the group in the AD to which the ROLE is assigned to?
If there are participants inside a group in the AD which is synced to ALBPM, should ALBPM auto-detect those participants inside that group and if that group is assigned to a ROLE, should ALBPM auto-detect those participants inside that GROUP and send them emails?
Am I right?
Also what is id : departmentName over here?
Do we need to exactly specify the group name in the AD?
My question is :-
Why do we need to hard-code an AD group name into our code because if we say :-
activity.role.find(name : activity.role.name);
it should find the role for that activity and all participants belonging to that role should be emailed.
Now if these participants are under a group which is assigned to the ROLE, then all participants under that role need to be emailed..
Doesn't ALBPM automatically detect this?
Edited by: user8752903 on Sep 21, 2010 8:49 AM
Edited by: user8752903 on Sep 21, 2010 8:57 AM
Edited by: user8752903 on Sep 21, 2010 9:11 AM