sp_send_cdosysmail - Parameter Inside Body of Email

[eczino]

I currently have a web form posting back to a SQL table using a Stored
Procedure. Part of this SP is that it pulls data from another table
and inserts a new row into the registration table.

I want to have a trigger on the registration table that will fire when
the row is inserted which will use the sp_send_cdosysmail sproc to send
an e-mail to the user.

However, I want to be able to include the value of one of the fields
within the BODY of the message. I can't find a way to include
parameters/variables within the Body of a message using
sp_send_cdosysmail and it's driving me nuts.

Here's what I have in a sproc (not a trigger) that executes
sp_send_cdosysmail...I currently pass a parameter for the "To" e-mail
address and that works fine.

_________________________________________________
EXEC sp_send_cdosysmail
'f***************@testcompany.com',
@stremail, <--This is the Parameter passed for the "To" e-mail addy
-->

'Test Subject',
'Test Body,
Additional Text
Additional Text
<--THIS IS WHERE I WANT TO PUT THE PARAMETER-->
Additional Text
Additional Text'

__________________________________________________ _
Is there any way to do this?

The sp_send_cdosysmail I used is the standard MS one..Here it is for
reference:
Thanks for any help offered!

Elliot

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_send_cdosysmail]
@From varchar(100) ,
@To varchar(100) ,
@Subject varchar(100)=" ",
@Body varchar(4000)

/************************************************** *******************

This stored procedure takes the parameters and sends an e-mail.
All the mail configurations are hard-coded in the stored procedure.
Comments are added to the stored procedure where necessary.
References to the CDOSYS objects are at the following MSDN Web site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de..._messaging.asp

************************************************** *********************/
AS
Declare @iMsg int
Declare @hr int
Declare @source varchar(255)
Declare @description varchar(500)
Declare @output varchar(1000)

--************* Create the CDO.Message Object ************************
EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'CDO.Message', @iMsg OUT

--***************Configuring the Message Object ******************
-- This is to configure a remote SMTP server.
--
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de..._sendusing.asp
EXEC @hr = sp_OASetProperty @iMsg,
'Configuration.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing").Value','1'
-- This is to configure the Server Name or IP address.
-- Replace MailServerName by the name or IP of your SMTP Server.
EXEC @hr = sp_OASetProperty @iMsg,
'Configuration.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver").Value',
'SMTPServer'

-- Save the configurations to the message object.
EXEC @hr = sp_OAMethod @iMsg, 'Configuration.Fields.Update', null

-- Set the e-mail parameters.
EXEC @hr = sp_OASetProperty @iMsg, 'To', @To
EXEC @hr = sp_OASetProperty @iMsg, 'From', @From
EXEC @hr = sp_OASetProperty @iMsg, 'Subject', @Subject

-- If you are using HTML e-mail, use 'HTMLBody' instead of 'TextBody'.
EXEC @hr = sp_OASetProperty @iMsg, 'TextBody', @Body
EXEC @hr = sp_OAMethod @iMsg, 'Send', NULL

-- Sample error handling.
IF @hr <>0
select @hr
BEGIN
EXEC @hr = sp_OAGetErrorInfo NULL, @source OUT, @description OUT
IF @hr = 0
BEGIN
SELECT @output = ' Source: ' + @source
PRINT @output
SELECT @output = ' Description: ' + @description
PRINT @output
END
ELSE
BEGIN
PRINT ' sp_OAGetErrorInfo failed.'
RETURN
END
END

-- Do some error handling after each step if you have to.
-- Clean up the objects created.
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @iMsg
GO

[Simon Hayes]

I'm not sure I understand you completely, but here's one possibility:

declare @Body varchar(4000)
declare @IncludeThis varchar(100)

set @Body = 'This is the body of my email, and I want my value to go
<<HERE>>'
set @IncludeThis = 'at the end of this line.'
set @Body = replace(@Body, '<<HERE>>', @IncludeThis)

exec sp_send_cdosysmail ...

By the way, sending emails from triggers is usually considered a rather
risky approach - since triggers operate in a transaction, if the email
process takes a long time or hangs, then the trigger may block other
users.

An alternative solution is to add a flag column to your registrations
table which indicates if an email has been sent, then schedule a job to
run every half hour (or whatever) and send out the emails based on the
flag.

Simon

[eczino]

Thanks for this. While that wouldn't work as you described (through no
fault of yours...I realize my question was a little convoluted) you
pointed me in the right direction.

I just needed to declare and set the @Body in the SProc that called the
sp_send_csosysmail procedure and then pass it on as the body of the
message. Then it's just standard T-SQL to combine a string with the
variable. It seems so simple now.

Also, thanks for the pointer about triggers as I hadn't thought of
that. I do have a trigger, but it executes a SP on the same database
that does all the actual work.

Thanks for the help!

Elliot

Simon Hayes wrote:

I'm not sure I understand you completely, but here's one possibility:

declare @Body varchar(4000)
declare @IncludeThis varchar(100)

set @Body = 'This is the body of my email, and I want my value to go
<<HERE>>'
set @IncludeThis = 'at the end of this line.'
set @Body = replace(@Body, '<<HERE>>', @IncludeThis)

exec sp_send_cdosysmail ...

By the way, sending emails from triggers is usually considered a rather risky approach - since triggers operate in a transaction, if the email process takes a long time or hangs, then the trigger may block other
users.

An alternative solution is to add a flag column to your registrations
table which indicates if an email has been sent, then schedule a job to run every half hour (or whatever) and send out the emails based on the flag.

Simon