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thanushka_gunasekarathanushka_gunasekara 

Need help on sending emails

Hi All,

 

I have an employee object and it contains a field containing email address. I need to send emails to employees to the email address defined in each employee object instance. Can I do this task using the functionality available in the default application or do I need to code it?

 

Would be grateful if you are able to help me on this.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

Thanushka.

Pradeep_NavatarPradeep_Navatar

You can do it by using workflow or trigger. Workflow is best way to accomplish this task, since workflow is standard functionality of salesforce and trigger requires coding.


thanushka_gunasekarathanushka_gunasekara

Hi Pardeep,

 

Thanks for replying. But I feel like you didn't get what I said. The scenario is like this. Suppose I want to send a mail to a pertiqulor set of employess. How can I do that. And the email address of each employee is in the email property of the employees object.

 

Thanks.

 

Thanushka
Steve RichardsonSteve Richardson

I don't beleive you can use an email address field from a custom object in the recipient field of an Email Alert within a Workflow. I believe Email Alerts will only work with standard objects (Account, Contact, Case, Contract, etc.).

 

If the  Employee object is a custom object, I think you will have to write an Apex trigger to use the Email field from the custom object as the email recipient.