This may be way out of scope but I have a scenario right now where this could be useful…
When clicking an action link to email someone, for my case it’s a contact connected to an event record, a form could pop up asking for further information before emailing. Such as:
Selecting the contact you would like to email if there’s more than one contact connected to the event record
A warning if the email field selected is blank
Maybe, this could go as far as letting you enter the email body as well. Turning the emailing feature into a nearly full featured email solution.
Another idea is through on demand tasks. I can see that being used for doing bulk emailing. Currently I use sendgrid + Airtable for doing bulk email.
I would full support the option of being able to email multiple addresses that have a certain “tag” or classification such as a group assignment field.
Not a full solution, but how about instead of using an action link you use an edit link and set the edit page to show in the pop up. Then you have lots more customization to continue making these types of tweaks in a form vs action link. Action links are really just that - a single click action. It will never be possible to have action links that open additional details/pop ups. Those can be accomplished with detail pages or edit pop up pages.
If you have an edit link you can open the column settings in the table for that link and choose to open it in a pop up.
That’s a pretty good idea. So let’s say I had fields in my data table that were {to} {subject} {body} etc, can I use record rules or table rules to set blank values to those fields after the form is submitted and an email is sent?
Edit: I just remembered seeing this infographic in the docs. So I guess what I asked above would not work. I’ll leave this here for visibility.
Emails run after record rules so that likely won’t work. But if you use a pipe instead just add the pipe with email to the top as a record rule, then set the next record rule to null those values.
We have a SendGrid pipe which will do just that. I don’t think its published yet, but I’ll be sure to make it active tonight so you can do this. You’ll just need an API key from SendGrid and they have a very generous free tier so you likely won’t need to pay anything to use their API.
SendGrid will work just fine. I know this goes against what you’re trying to do with pipes but I just realized that this would be possible to do with Integromat as well. They have a stand-alone email module.
Is there anyway to access the native Tadabase email functions from a pipe?
There’s no way to access the native email functions from within a Pipe. But we use SendGrid behind the scenes so technically its nearly identical. Main difference is that using a pipe the email doesn’t get logged.
I activated the SendGrid Pipe.
Its really straight forward.
Install the Pipe
Get the API key from SendGrid and put it into the Global Parameter default value for authorization.
Inside a form record rule add the pipe. Super important that you set all the parameters and also use a response from the pipe to update the existing record. I’ve mentioned this in the past. Pipes run based on values being saved. When the record rule runs its trying to set the value of the field in the database called “Email Response” it then sees that the value comes from the pipe, so the pipe gets triggered.
@moe, with the Pipe would it be possible to send an email to all users or records that have a certain classification? For example, “to” could be all users that are “supervisors”.
