1.7 Alpha - Email From address

Submitted by Guest on Fri, 10/05/2013 - 12:47

General developer's discussion

As part oif the CSH project I have been playing with the 1.7 email setup.

Let's assume that your practice is ABC Vets and that you have branches at Boronia and Sunshine and you use the Practice Location names Boronia and Sunshine.

If you set up email contacts at the Practice Location level, then the From email address is generated from the Practice Location name (eg Boronia) + the email address (eg abc-vets-boronia[at]gmail[dot]com) to give a 'from' address like "Boronia<abc-vets-boronia[at]gmail[dot]com>".

In actual fact, you probably want the email address to be something like "ABC Vets (Boronia)<abc-vets-boronia[at]gmail[dot]com>". That is 'english' part of the From address needs to be something different from "Boronia" - which is the practice's internal name for this location.

Suggestion:
If the email address is a 'plain' email address (ie xxx@yyy) then generate the From address as name<email-addr> (eg Boronia<abc-vets-boronia[at]gmail[dot]com> )

If the email address is an 'enhanced' email address (ie zzzz<xxx@yyy> ) the generate the From address as this without including the Practice Location name.

Regards, TimG

Re: 1.7 Alpha - Email From address

Submitted by tanderson on Thu, 16/05/2013 - 17:24.

An alternative would be to use the name node of the contact.email archetype.

In 1.6, its read-only, used to differentiate between different contact types.

In 1.7, it defaults to "Email Contact", but can be edited. It different to the the default, it could be used instead of the practice location name.

Another option would be to provide new displayName node on the party.organisation* archetypes.

If set, this would be used in place of the practice location name.

-Tim

Re: 1.7 Alpha - Email From address

Submitted by tgething (not verified) on Thu, 23/05/2013 - 14:11.

Tim - sorry for the lag in replying to this. I think that your second suggestion is the best - ie if the contact name has been modified from the default "Email Contact" then use the modified version, else use the Practice Location name.

You will see that I have set up the 1.7 A demo system this way, and that I have included the Practice Name in the modified version - eg "OPV Demo (Main Clinic) - Accounts Dept". This allos one to include the Paractice, branch, and function in the email address name.

Regards, Tim G