[Vtigercrm-developers] Question about Email module [Solved (ish) ]

[Alan Lord]

Semi answered this myself eventually but the whole email module is a 
*total* mess.

It requires quite a bit of core hacking to get it to work with another 
module and needs additions to the core include/language files too!

Anyway - I have the first part working now. Now I'm moving onto 
MailManager which also has hard-coded module relationships. Deep Joy.

Whilst I'm digging around in there I might try and fix the *really* 
annoying and stupid bug where when you send an email from vtiger it 
copies that email and *sends* it to you too! This is really stupid... 
MailManager should *add* a *copy* of the mail to your IMAP Sent folder, 
as other email clients do when you send, not send 2 copies via SMTP.

Al


Next I am going to look at the Mail Manager and get that UI to
On 20/11/12 15:39, Alan Lord wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am (slowly) getting one of my custom vtlib modules to work with a
> relationship to the Email module.
>
> It's rather painful because of the large amount of hard-coding of
> modules in the Email code.
>
> Anyway - I am stuck.
>
> In my relatedList under my vtlib module I have my Add Email button.
> That generates the small "Select email addresses" popup and I am able to
> select the right email address(es).
> When I click Select I get the Compose Email popup (A smarty template:
> ComposeEmail.tpl) and I have the "To:" field correctly populated.
> However, the drop down only ever shows:
> Contacts
> Organisations
> Vendors
> Leads
> User(s)?
>
> What I want to do is add my vtlib module to this list but I can't work
> out where it getting set in the Email/EditView.php file...
>
> It is this block of code in the template:
>
> <select name="parent_type">
>    {foreach key=labelval item=selectval from=$elements.1.0}
>      {if $selectval eq selected}
>       {assign var=selectmodule value="selected"}
>      {else}
>       {assign var=selectmodule value=""}
>      {/if}
>      <option value="{$labelval}" {$selectmodule}>{$APP[$labelval]
>      </option>
>    {/foreach}
> </select>
>
> Any pointers gratefully received.
>
> Cheers
>
> Al
>
>
>
>
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