Often we get the below question:
How can we add the ODA-uploaded file as an attachment to an email?
an ODA developer
This can easily be done in 2 parts.
Get the attachment
Whenever a user uploads a file to the conversation (whether is a picture a pdf or any other type), that file is internally stored In the ODA attachment server.
In order to fetch that file we need a custom component where we run the below code:
let attachment = context.attachment();
let fileurl = attachment != null? attachment.url : null;The variable fileurl will hold an URL that points to the attachment
Send the email with the attachment
Some time ago I wrote a post on how to Send emails with the OCI Email Service and Node.js , that can be the basis for sending an email – obviously it needs to be converted into a custom component.
Nodemailer makes it super easy to send an attachment with an URL – no need to convert to a base64 (although that is also possible).
let info = await transporter.sendMail({
from: 'noreply@notification.eu-amsterdam-1.oci.oraclecloud.com',
to: "youremail@mail.com",
subject: "Tech Trantor",
html: "This is the Tech Trantor oci email service with an attachment! ",
attachments: [
{ // utf-8 string as an attachment
filename: 'surf.jpg',
path: 'https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2019/04/22/04/32/blue-4145659_960_720.jpg'
}
] });
You would need to replace the path url with the value from fileurl, and also update the filename.
When I ran the above code I get an email with the surg.jpg attached!
