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Task properties
Recipients Tab
The fields on this tab are variable property fields, which means the values may change with each job at
run-time. You can use any combination of text, variables and data selections; see "Variable task prop-
erties" on page289.
Note: When specifying multiple recipients for the To, CC and BCC fields, separate the e-mail
addresses with semi-colons (;).
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To: Enter the email address(es) of the recipient(s).
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Cc: Specify addresses to which a copy of the generated emails are to be sent.
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Bcc: Specify discreet addresses (other recipients will not be able to see these addresses) to
which a copy of the generated emails are to be sent.
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Subject: Enter the subject of the email. Note that if you use a data selection in this field, you must
be sure that the data that will be selected at run-time will not contain any parentheses, as this
would cause the task to fail. If you suspect that the data may contain parentheses, you should
use a Run Script action task (see "Run Script" on page428) with a Strip() function to strip
them out.
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Message: Enter the content of the email message. This may be text or HTML based.
Note that since this is a variable property field, its content is parsed at run-time. If HTML code is
entered or pasted in this box, percent (%) and slash (/) HTML characters must be doubled, oth-
erwise they will be disregarded.
Note: Different email clients have different support for various features, especially with
HTML emails (see HTML Email challenges in the PlanetPress Connect Online Help). In
most cases, if you want to send your email as an HTML message, your very first line should
start with <html> or <!doctype html>. It should not be any other character.
PlanetPress Connect has a tool to design HTML email templates: the Designer. To gen-
erate email output from a template you would use the "Create Email Content" on page502
task.
Also note that it is currently not possible to send both an HTML and plain-text version of your mes-
sage.
Attachments Tab
Use this tab to specify what files to attach to the e-mail.
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