IIRC, Send XSLT transformed e-mail is a Contour Contrib workflow. That is, it is not part of the core, but is part of an extension.

https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/contour-contrib

If there is documentation for Contour Contrib, I imagine that's where you'd find info about Send XSLT transformed e-mail.

Hi Nicholas

Yup in the old days :) - Now it seems that the intention is to have it as a part of the core - At least there is a "Send as XSLT transformed e-mail" option.

Just gotta figure out how it's supposed to work. Thanks for the input though.

/Jan

...Ok, so it seems that one actually just have to upload the desired XSLT file for formatting the e-mail...that seems a bit odd though...nonetheless it actually works.

I just did a test using the sample XSLT file in the /App_Plugins/UmbracoForms/Xslt/sendXsltEmailSample.xslt and the e-mail was being transformed against it.

Not sure why it's not possible to simply pick a XSLT file directly from the developer section though but hope others can benefit from my approach. Next I'm going to copy the sample file into the XSLT directory in Umbraco instead and then upload this file to the media archive.

/Jan

Jan, you have the workflow correct... you upload a new xstl transform via the interface within forms/contour... it does feel very disconnected from the rest of the mechanisms... but it is -- maybe float this by Warren for future consideration.

Thanks for getting back to me Bob and confirming that this currently is the way to do it - I guess it might make a bit more sense towards an editor to point at something in the media section rather than the developer section, which would probably be confusing towards them so perhaps it makes sense afterall :)

/Jan

Hi Guys,
Yes I must admit it a weird quirk currently, that you cannot simply pick an XSLT file from disk but instead have to explicitly upload one instead.

I can add this to the issue tracker now so that it does not get forgotten about.

Thanks,
Warren

I've been fighting this thing for a week now and I cannot get the submitted form to send an email using an uploaded xslt file. I just don't get it. Contour was so easy to configure an XSLT file and import it as a macro on the landing page. I've tried that in Umbraco 7.5.4 with Forms installed but it fails with this error:

"Cannot find a script or an extension object associated with namespace 'urn:umbraco.contour'. "

Every time I try just using the sample provided, absolutely nothing happens. The documentation on this is severely lacking.

Thanks Chriztian. That really helped a lot. I'm wondering now if there's a more elegant way to get the form values into the XSLT file than this:

<xsl:variable name="subscriptionEmailTo" select="$records//fields/child::* [caption = 'Please confirm the email address to update:']//value"/>

or this:

<xsl:value-of select="$records//fields/child::* [caption = 'Please confirm the email address to update:']//value"/>

Both work but it looks clunky to me. Here's the way I did it when using Contour:

<xsl:variable name="subscriptionEmailTo" select="$records/fields/pleaseconfirmtheemailaddresstoupdate//value"/>

Not a big deal but it seems like there should be a better way.

Thanks, Darrell

I have a new question about retrieving values from an Umbraco 7 Form and sending email with those values. If I'm getting values from a radio button list I use something like this:

<xsl:for-each select="$rsvpNewAttendee"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$rsvpNewAttendee != ''"> <strong>New Attendee:</strong> <xsl:value-of select="$rsvpNewAttendee"/><br /> </xsl:when> </xsl:choose> </xsl:for-each>

That works fine. However, if I'm trying to get values from a check box list, I use the same code but it doesn't return the value for each one checked. It'll return the value for the 1st one checked, multiple times. Can someone point me in the correct direction for this?

I'm sure this is not the best way to handle this but everything else failed, even trying to use the split function. There has got to be a more efficient and cleaner way to write this code.

<xsl:when test="$rsvpMeetings != ''">
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="$rsvpMeetings">
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test=". = 'February 10th'">
            <li>February 10th</li>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test=". = 'May 12th'">
            <li>May 12th</li>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test=". = 'September 22nd'">
            <li>September 22nd</li>
        </xsl:when>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul></xsl:when>

I'm struggling with this too and all I want is pretty standard Form functionality:

==================================

To: {emailAddress}

From {localBranchEmail}

Dear {firstName}

Thanks for your email.

We'll get back to you within 24 hours

Sincerely

{branchName} Customer Support

==================================

where "emailAddress" and "firstName" are the email address and name the User has supplied when filling out the form and all the other "Magic Strings" are Page Attributes.

Is there an example anywhere detailing how to do this?

Many thanks,

Colm

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