How we can send email after "CompleteTask" event?

Question

Hello all,

I have created a workflow in visual studio 2010. I drag and drop SendEmail activity after  "CompleteTask" event. But when a task completes Email does not sent. I dont know what i am missing. Can we send Email when a task completed?. Following is the code and image (SendEmail2 activity)which iam using. If iam missing any thing please correct it, Thanks in advance.

Dim headers As New StringDictionary()

headers.Add("to", workflowProperties.OriginatorUser.Email)
headers.Add("cc", "[e-mail]")
headers.Add("from", createTask1_TaskProperties1.AssignedTo)
headers.Add("subject", "Your leave application has been approved")
headers.Add("content-type", "text/html")

Dim bodyText As String = "Your leave application has been approved."

SPUtility.SendEmail(workflowProperties.Web, headers, bodyText)

 

Answer 1

Marreena,

Why are you sending mails using the SPUtility? The activity is capable of sending mails itself.

You just need to set the properties of To, From addresses and so on for the sendEmail object and mails should be sent?

An e.g. is

sendEmail.To = "[e-mail]";

set all properties and you should be good.

Please refer this blog post for more information: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chandru/archive/2010/03/09/sending-customized-email-from-sharepoint-workflow.aspx

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Regards, Huzefa Mala, MCTS

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Answer 2

Thanks for the reply,

I use SendEmail Activity after the "CompleteTask" event and this does not work. While i had used this SendEmail activity after "CreateTask" Event and then it works great. Why SendEmail activity does not work after "CompleteTask event" ???. That is the problem, Thanks.

Answer 3

Please check the workflow history to see if there is any error captured there.

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Regards, Huzefa Mala, MCTS

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Answer 4

Thanks,

History always display a message even email send (On "CreateTask")  or not (On "CompleteTask") . Error is following.

4/13/2012 12:26 PM

Error

System Account

The e-mail message cannot be sent. Make sure the e-mail has a valid recipient.

Answer 5

Keep your recipient name in a custome property created at createTask. Use that property later after completeTask. Your Email sending is failing as the contest is losing the User's email .

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Answer 6

Please refer the following post:

http://sharepointissues.blogspot.in/2010/08/mails-not-going-through-sendemail.html

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Regards, Huzefa Mala, MCTS

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Answer 7

Thanks for the reply,

The following line of code have no problem and always produce a value after the task completed. The complete code in my first thread have no problem in setting values like from, to subject, body. All values are coming right in SendEmail activity after the "CompleteTask" event. But email does not send. Tired of trying again n again :(.

headers.Add("to", workflowProperties.OriginatorUser.Email)