Send an Article#

Summary#

This action allows you to send an article via email.

The name of the transition action is ArticleSend

Transition Action Module Configuration#

The following list shows the mandatory items.

Key

Example value

Description

Mandatory

Attachments

‘Attachment 1, Attachment 2, Attachment 3’

Comma separated names from attachments found in the system under Admin -> Attachments

no

AttachmentIDs

15,42,34

Comma separated ID list from attachments found in the system under Admin -> Attachments

no

AttachmentsReuse

1

default: 0

optional, 1 - Reuse of attachments stored in the dynamic field configured in Process::DynamicFieldProcessManagementAttachment.

Bcc

Some Customer C <customer-c@example.com>

must be an email

required if both To and Cc are not present

Body

‘the message text’

text

required

Cc

Some Customer B <customer-b@example.com>

must be an email

required if both Bcc and To are not present

Charset

utf-8

only utf-8

yes, or ContentType

ContentType

text/plain; charset=utf-8

yes, or MimeType and Charset

From


Some Agent <email@example.com>


must be an email


required if both Cc and Bcc are not present
Optionally, left blank the current queue sender
is used, and can be overwritten by the Queue field.

HistoryComment

Some HistoryComment

text HistoryComment

yes

HistoryType

EmailAgent

Valid ticket history type

yes

InReplyTo

Some Customer B <customer-b@example.com>

text

no

IsVisibleForCustomer

1

Is article visible for customer?

yes

MimeType

text/plain

text/plain or text/html

yes, or ContentType

NoAgentNotify

0

0 = send 1 = not send

no, default: 1

Queue

Misc

Use sender address from Misc queue.

no.
Optional to To: field.

QueueID

1

Use sender address from the queue with ID 1

no

References

Some Customer B <customer-b@example.com>

text

no

ReplyTo

Some Customer B <customer-b@example.com>

must be an emails

no, if ‘Reply-To’ is used instead

Salutation

‘Salutation 1’

Use salutation to replace in Body by Tag <OTRS_TA_SALUTATION>

no

SalutationID

1

Use salutation id to replace in Body by Tag <OTRS_TA_SALUTATION>

no

SenderType

‘agent’

agent,system,customer

yes

SenderTypeID

1

numerical id of sender type

or SenderType

Signature

‘Signature 1’

Use signature id to replace in Body by Tag <OTRS_TA_SIGNATURE>

no

SignatureID

1

Use signature id to replace in Body by Tag <OTRS_TA_SIGNATURE>

no

Subject

an email subject

text

yes

To

Some Customer A <customer-a@example.com>

must be an email

required if both Cc and Bcc are not present

Template

‘Template 1’

Use template to replace in Body by Tag <OTRS_TA_TEMPLATE>

no

TemplateID

1

Use template id to replace in Body by Tag <OTRS_TA_TEMPLATE>

no

UseTicketHook

0

0 = no ticket hook 1 = with ticket hook

optional, default: 1

UserID

123

no, will override the logged in user id

no